For those of you who are heading to the International Communication Association meeting in Prague later this month it’s my pleasure to invite you to Nancy Baym’s lecture, "New Media, New Work, and the New Call to Intimacy: The Case of Musicians,” this year's Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture. It will take place on Saturday, May 26, 14:00 to 15:15, at the Prague Hilton, floor M, in the Hilton Grand Ballroom. It is an honor to have Nancy give this year’s talk, and it is an honor to have this lecture series; I am grateful to ICA and to the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research for their continued support and sponsorship of it. The abstract describing Nancy’s talk is below. I hope to see many AoIR people in attendance - let’s have an AoIR meetup! Steve ------------------ "New Media, New Work, and the New Call to Intimacy: The Case of Musicians” The architectures and norms of new media push people toward sharing everyday intimacies they might historically have kept to close friends and family. As more people are pushed toward gig work, the original gig workers - musicians - provide an exemplary lens for exploring the implications of this widespread blurring of interpersonal communication into everyday practices of professional viability. This talk draws on nearly a decade of work to show how the pressure to be "authentic" in communicating with audiences, combined with the designs and materialities of new communication technologies, raises dialectic tensions that musicians - and many others - must manage as social media platforms become integral to professional life.