‘It’s Nice to See You’re Not the Only One with Kinks’: Presenting Intimate Privates in Intimate Publics on Tumblr

Hart, Matthew

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97607-5_11

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“…It is not a coincidence that these shifts are happening online. Recent Internet studies contrast the past anxieties about online authenticity: Hart (2018: 178) has found that Tumblr is perceived as a space of both emotional and embodied authenticity, and Favaro’s (2017) study of online women’s magazines framed online content as more “authentic” and “real” than print (notwithstanding the critique that this turn to authenticity is part of a branding strategy). Similarly, Kanai (2019) argues that articulating minor failures or struggles with attaining neoliberal, postfeminist expectations is how young women present themselves as “relatable,” a key component of young women’s digital culture.…”

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Soft Femme Theory: Femme Internet Aesthetics and the Politics of “Softness”

Schwartz

2020

Social Media + Society

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Twenty years ago, the figure of the femme appeared on a book cover wielding a knife; more recently, the femme has appeared on Instagram crying in a Polly Pocket skirt. Online, femme is increasingly called “tender,” “radically vulnerable,” and “soft.” In this article, I examine soft femme digital culture on Instagram, and argue that the discourse of “softness” is used to articulate belonging and to resist neoliberal, masculinist logics. Through an analysis of Instagram images and interviews with femmes, I develop an understanding of softness as a combination of emotionality, vulnerability, relationality, and hyperfemininity. I argue that soft femme is an aesthetic form and a theoretical position that expands the category of femme to be more inclusive of diverse subjects. Soft femme theory fills the gaps in femme theory left by critiques of existing femme identity theory that centers performance, irony, and the figure of the hard femme. Through the discourse of softness, femme becomes something one can be like, rather than something one just looks like.

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Soft Femme Theory: Femme Internet Aesthetics and the Politics of “Softness”

Schwartz

2020

Social Media + Society

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“…Th is relating also allows for constructions of intimacy across distances between individuals who are not familiar with one another (Nebeling Petersen et al, 2018). Numerous studies stress the role of mobile media, social media, and social networking sites (SNS) in starting new relationships, boundary work, and creating, managing, and remembering intimacies (see, e.g., Hart, 2018;Miguel, 2018aMiguel, , 2018bMøller & Nebeling Petersen, 2018;Robards et al, 2018). Several authors also describe intimacy as a strategy and genre in the relationship of micro-celebrities and their followers on YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram (Abidin, 2015;Abidin & Th ompson, 2012;Johnson & Woodcock, 2019;Marwick, 2015;Marwick & boyd, 2011;Raun, 2018).…”

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“…Intimate information and practices that were once hidden from the public are now inextricably intertwined with the public sphere. Bazarova (2012), Dobson andcolleagues (2018), andHart (2018) defi ne publicly shared disclosure on SNS as public intimacy. Intimacy practices played out on SNS are often criticised (see, e.g., Bazarova, 2012) in what can be called "moral panics" (Tiidenberg & van der Nagel, 2020), which emphasises that the visibility of intimacy is also a highly normative question (Dobson et al, 2018).…”

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What is visual intimacy?

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Intimacy is a key social goal and the fundamental basis of close social relationships. Current social relationships and the interactions through which they are created and maintained are highly visualised. This visualisation also transforms the way that intimacy is played out. Based on an interdisciplinary literature review, this paper focuses on the concepts of intimacy and visual intimacy, and maps the different roles that visuals can play in intimacy practices. It shows that the content of visuals is not always essential for creating and maintaining intimacy. Practices relating to producing, sharing, and talking about pictures, as well as practices of seeing, also need to be taken into account when discussing the overall concept of visualintimacy.

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“…Aktuelle Studien zu Sexblogs untersuchen anhand von Interviews deren Funktionen in polyamourösen Beziehungen (Tiidenberg 2014) oder anhand von ethnografischer Forschung deren Bedeutung für Queer-und Trans*-Kulturen (Fink und Miller 2014). Andere beschäftigen sich mit dem sexuellen Sexualausdruck mittels NSFW ("Not Safe for Work") Selfies in Tumblr-Blogs (Hart 2018a(Hart , 2018b. Auch wird das Verfassen von Sexblogs mit anderen Formen des sexuellen Schreibens wie Cybersex und Erotika verglichen (Wheaton 2016).…”

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Sexualbezogene Online-Fortbildung für Fachkräfte: Weblogs

Döring

2019

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ZusammenfassungDer vorliegende Praxisbeitrag stellt insgesamt sechs Typen von Weblogs vor, die sich mit sexualbezogenen Fragen befassen: Sexblogs von Unternehmen, Sexblogs zu Sexspielzeugen, Sexblogs mit erotischen Geschichten, persönliche Sexblogs, Sexblogs zur sexuellen Aufklärung und Beratung sowie sexualwissenschaftliche Sexblogs. Ihr besonderer Informationswert für Fachkräfte wird diskutiert. Zudem wird der aktuelle Stand der Sexblog-Forschung präsentiert, der sich stark um die sexuelle Selbstbemächtigung von Frauen dreht.

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‘It’s Nice to See You’re Not the Only One with Kinks’: Presenting Intimate Privates in Intimate Publics on Tumblr

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

Soft Femme Theory: Femme Internet Aesthetics and the Politics of “Softness”

Soft Femme Theory: Femme Internet Aesthetics and the Politics of “Softness”

What is visual intimacy?

Sexualbezogene Online-Fortbildung für Fachkräfte: Weblogs

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