Intimate media are media artifacts created and collected by individuals, friends, and families to capture and commemorate aspects of family

Family

In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children...

 and intimate relationships. Intimate media includes such things as personal and family photo collections, home video

Video

Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...

s and film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

s, diaries and journals

Diary

A diary is a record with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. A personal diary may include a person's experiences, and/or thoughts or feelings, including comment on current events outside the writer's direct experience. Someone...

, and letters. In fact, depending on the meaning and values attributed to an object, anything could be considered intimate media. Cass, Goulden, Kozlov, and Rees write that "[t]he deepest relationship people have with their material possessions is through associating them with experiences."

Intimate media can also include online materials. See for example the Romanian online magazine Intime (in Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

).