Identities and Intimacies on Social Media: Transnational Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 218 pp.
Contains index
Series: Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
ISBN 978-1-00-325098-2 (ebook); 978-1-03-216914-9 (pbk)
"This edited collection illuminates the scope with which identities and intimacies interact on a wide range of social media platforms. A varied range of international scholars examine the contexts of very different social media spaces, with topics ranging from whitewashing and memes, parental discourses in online activities, Spotify as an intimate social media platform, neoliberalisation of feminist discourses, digital sex work, social media wars in trans debates and 'BimboTok'. The focus is on their acceleration and impact due to the specificities of social media in relation to identities, intimacies within the broad 'political' sphere. The geographic range of case study material reflects the global impact of social media, and includes data from Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the USA." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Social media and society / Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, Paul G. Nixon, Tony Krijnen and Michelle D. Ravenscroft, 1
PART I. OLD MATTER IN NEW SPACES
1 Whitewashing and the Meme-ability of Scarlett Johansson: Online controversy surrounding the Ghost in the Shell remake / Anna Wald, 17
2 'My parents check my profile': How Italian girls negotiate parental discourses in online activities / Arianna Mainardi and Tonny Krijnen, 32
3 Counselling marriage and love through live-streaming in China: Douyin, relationship counsellor, and the affective public / Zhen Ye and Qian Huang, 49
4 "Music makes the people come together": Spotify as an intimate social media platform / Ben De Smet and Frederik Dhaenens, 66
PART II. CONTEXTUALISING IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL MEDIA
5 Sexual reputation, intersectional intimacies, and visual social media: Exploring young people's mores on 'good' versus 'bad' online sexual reputations / Burcu Korkmazer, Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel, 85
6 "You live and you learn": Sex and relationship vlogging and the production of knowledge / Victoria Andelsman, 103
7 Webisodes as different subversive forms of representation of gender and sexuality / Pernilla Jonsson Severson, 119
8 No Country for Men. Negotiating men's rights activism in digital spaces / Manolo Farci, 134
PART III. NEGOTIATING POLITICS AND IDENTITIES
9 "Hello my lovelies!": Conflicted feminisms and the neoliberalisation of Portuguese activist influencer practices / Sofia P. Caldeira and Ana Flora Machado, 153
10 Digital sex work? Creating and selling explicit content in OnlyFans / Daniel Cardoso, Despina Chronaki and Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, 169
11 Trans-exclusionary discourses on social media in Spain / Cilia Willem, Iolanda Tortajada and R. Lucas Platero, 185
12 The rise of Bimbo TikTok: Digital sociality, postfeminism, and disidentificatory subjects / AP Pierce, 201
PART I. OLD MATTER IN NEW SPACES
1 Whitewashing and the Meme-ability of Scarlett Johansson: Online controversy surrounding the Ghost in the Shell remake / Anna Wald, 17
2 'My parents check my profile': How Italian girls negotiate parental discourses in online activities / Arianna Mainardi and Tonny Krijnen, 32
3 Counselling marriage and love through live-streaming in China: Douyin, relationship counsellor, and the affective public / Zhen Ye and Qian Huang, 49
4 "Music makes the people come together": Spotify as an intimate social media platform / Ben De Smet and Frederik Dhaenens, 66
PART II. CONTEXTUALISING IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL MEDIA
5 Sexual reputation, intersectional intimacies, and visual social media: Exploring young people's mores on 'good' versus 'bad' online sexual reputations / Burcu Korkmazer, Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel, 85
6 "You live and you learn": Sex and relationship vlogging and the production of knowledge / Victoria Andelsman, 103
7 Webisodes as different subversive forms of representation of gender and sexuality / Pernilla Jonsson Severson, 119
8 No Country for Men. Negotiating men's rights activism in digital spaces / Manolo Farci, 134
PART III. NEGOTIATING POLITICS AND IDENTITIES
9 "Hello my lovelies!": Conflicted feminisms and the neoliberalisation of Portuguese activist influencer practices / Sofia P. Caldeira and Ana Flora Machado, 153
10 Digital sex work? Creating and selling explicit content in OnlyFans / Daniel Cardoso, Despina Chronaki and Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, 169
11 Trans-exclusionary discourses on social media in Spain / Cilia Willem, Iolanda Tortajada and R. Lucas Platero, 185
12 The rise of Bimbo TikTok: Digital sociality, postfeminism, and disidentificatory subjects / AP Pierce, 201
