Commenting on pictures: Teens negotiating gender and sexualities on social networking sites

Ridder, Sander De; Bauwel, Sofie Van

doi:10.1177/1363460713487369

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“…Another work in this line is presented by De Ridder and Van Bauwel [3], who demonstrate how young users act their gender identities through commentaries in photos posted by other young users. They describe a rich symbolic environment in which gender roles are continually displaced and reaffirmed, showing tensions and contradictions that young users live in online interaction.…”

Section: On Gender Issues In Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 97%

“…It shows that, independently of the visibility of the relationship status, other-gendered users have higher CC values than female and male users, which indicates that their egonetworks tend to be more densely connected. 3 The ego-network of an user is formed by the user herself, her 1-hop neighbors and the respective connections among them. …”

Section: Clustering Coefficientmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Noticing the other gender on Google+

Casas

Magno

Cunha

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Web Science

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Google+ provides a feature that has been overlooked in social media studies: the possibility of users setting their gender information not only as female or male, but as other instead. In this paper, we discuss this particularity and, more broadly, the issue of non-binary gender roles in the Web. By analyzing a large dataset, we characterize some aspects of self presentation, word use, network information and country of residence among users who choose different alternatives in the field Gender. On the whole, our main contributions are to present preliminary results and to shed light into the topic considered here -namely, the implications of having a third gender option to present oneself in an online social networking service.

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Section: On Gender Issues In Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Clustering Coefficientmentioning

confidence: 99%

Noticing the other gender on Google+

Casas

Magno

Cunha

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Web Science

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“…The practice of performing gender, sexuality, and desire in social media is understood as a form of self-objectification (De Ridder & Van Bauwel, 2013;Gill, 2007). Reframing social media as "technologies of sexiness" (Evans, Riley, & Shankar, 2010), in which being "sexy" is the norm (Ringrose, 2011a), the research concludes that the performances in social media are largely built around the stereotypical, heterosexualized, and commoditized norms that young people (mostly girls) have internalized (Ringrose, 2011b;Sveningsson, 2009).…”

Section: Coming To Terms With Gender Sexuality Relationships and Dementioning

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Youth and intimate media cultures: Gender, sexuality, relationships, and desire as storytelling practices in social networking sites

Ridder

Bauwel

2015

Communications

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This paper investigates how young people give meaning to gender, sexuality, relationships, and desire in the popular social networking site (SNS) Netlog. In arguing how SNSs are important spaces for intimate politics, the extent to which Netlog is a space that allows contestations of intimate stories and a voicing of difference is questioned. These intimate stories should be understood as self-representational media practices; young people make sense of their intimate stories in SNSs through media cultures. Media cultures reflect how audiences and SNS institutions make sense of intimacy. This paper concludes that intimate stories as media practices in the SNS Netlog are structured around creativity, anonymity, authenticity, performativity, bricolage and intertextuality. The intimate storytelling practices focusing on creativity, anonymity, bricolage and intertextuality are particularly significant for a diversity of intimacies to proliferate.

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“…Facebook can also be used to engage in voyeurism (Martínez-Alemán & Wartman, 2009) and to produce and resist normative gender and sexuality (De Ridder & Bauwel, 2013).…”

Section: Sexuality In Online Communitiesmentioning

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Confessing sex in online student communities

Dominguez-Whitehead

Whitehead

Bowman

2017

Discourse, Context & Media

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In this paper, we examine Facebook "Confessions" sites associated with two large universities (one North American and one South African) to investigate the ways in which students interactionally negotiate normativity in discussions initiated by confessions relating to sex. The research is grounded in a Foucauldian framework that emphasizes the centrality of sex and sexuality. Our findings focus on two interrelated aspects of the data. The first concerns the features of the initial (anonymous) confessional posts, and the second relates to subsequent comments on the initial post. Close examination of initial posts offers insights into participants' orientations to sexual acts, situations and beliefs that are treated as either normative or transgressive. Subsequent comments posted by participants reveal ways in which the "confessability" of confessions is interactionally ratified or contested. The findings thus demonstrate some ways in which normative sexuality is (re)produced, ratified, and contested within student online communities.

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Commenting on pictures: Teens negotiating gender and sexualities on social networking sites

Cited by 45 publications

References 51 publications

Noticing the other gender on Google+

Noticing the other gender on Google+

Youth and intimate media cultures: Gender, sexuality, relationships, and desire as storytelling practices in social networking sites

Confessing sex in online student communities

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