Mediating intimacy online

Authenticity, Magazines and Chasing the Clicks

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3657834
AutoresLaura Favaro (0009-0007-2791-2033, University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen26
Número3
Páginas321-334
Fecha de publicación2017-05-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09589236.2017.1280385
OpenAlexW2586684879
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas22

This paper offers a production-based study of online consumer magazines for – and largely by – millennial women, with a particular focus on sex and relationship content. Adopting a feminist discourse analytic approach and a solidary-critical position, I examine 62 interviews conducted with producers, mainly writers and editors, from 12 publications based in the UK and Spain. The analysis maps how notions of intimacy penetrate different dimensions of the magazine, along with networks of influence for the development of content about sex and relationships, marked by a perceived shift from ‘experts’ to ‘real life’. The ways in which producers describe the particularities of woman’s magazine online journalism and dis/articulate a range of critiques are also explored. The paper highlights the increasing importance of ideas about authenticity for these media, making connections to online cultures, a reinvigorated interest in feminism, and contemporary branding strategies. Ultimately, I argue that journalists at women’s magazines simultaneously (re)produce, suffer and contest sexist media, deserving further feminist scholarly attention, and our solidarity as well as critique

CONTEST · Feminism · Journalism · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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