Sonja Vivienne
Biographic Data
| ID | 161745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonja Vivienne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonja |
| FAMILY NAME | Vivienne |
| SIGNATURE | VIVIENNE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0467-0602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Social media use among bisexuals and pansexuals: Connection, harassment and mental health
Analysing survey data from 1,304 LGBTQ + young people in Australia collected in 2016, this paper considers key distinctions between the experiences of bisexual and pansexual participants, and lesbian and gay participants in relation to social media use and aspects of connection, harassment and mental health. Presenting quantitative data, illustrated by qualitative extracts, we found broad similarities in motivations for using social media and how…
The social life of data: Strategies for Categorizing Fluid and Multiple Genders
Accurate data collection from LGBTIQ+ communities is crucial for public health research and the provision of equitable services. Emergent fluid, multiple, trans and non-binary gender identities complicate data collection in ways that make an excellent case-study for rethinking the categorization of such data. In this article, we explore some of the obstacles to collecting data from trans, gender-diverse and non-binary (TGD) communities, and the d…
Waiting to be seen: Social Perspectives on Trans Health
Not your unicorn: Trans Dating App Users' Negotiations of Personal Safety and Sexual Health
The Feminist Press] framework of 'pharmacopornographisation', the analysis aims to contextualise participants' experiences of being 'seen' and 'known' by health professionals and other app users. Our findings indicate that both dating apps and sexual health services rely on reductive systems of sorting and categorisation that reinforce binary understandings of genders and sexualities in order to facilitate data management and information sharing …
That’s not necessarily for them’: LGBTIQ+ young people, social media platform affordances and identity curation
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and other non-heterosexual and gender diverse (LGBTIQ+) young people utilise a range of digital media platforms to explore identity, find support and manage boundaries. Less well understood, however, is how they navigate risk and rewards across the different social media platforms that are part of their everyday lives. In this study, we draw on the concept of affordances, as well as recent wor…
Little Islands of Empathy: Networked Stories of Gender Diversity and Multiple Selves
This article draws on a methodologically interesting case study called 'Stories Beyond Gender', in which a small group of trans* people collaborates in social media storytelling. Building on the possibilities manifest in other more explicitly personal-as-political genres like digital storytelling, I explore the potential of this facilitated workshop practice to establish meaningful connections across difference, forging affinities that may contin…
I will not hate myself because you cannot accept me ”: Problematizing empowerment and gender-diverse selfies
While selfies of beautiful cisgender women are declaimed by mainstream media as narcissistic and facile, some body-positive feminists and queer theorists argue that selfies can be empowering. They claim self-representation by traditionally stigmatized people can challenge normative presentations of beauty and gender. This article problematizes “empowerment” as a definitive and/or productive frame and argues instead for observation and analysis of…
Curating Technologies of Memory and Affect
Technologies of memory and affect are all around us. In this introduction to a special issue of Media International Australia on the theme of technologies of memory and affect, we report on the activities of year-long collaborative and interdisciplinary research programme funded by the Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities. We offer insights into the research program, its structure and methodologies, from which some of these articles …
The remediation of the personal photograph and the politics of self-representation in digital storytelling
Over the past couple of decades, the cultural field formerly known as 'domestic', and later 'personal' photography has been remediated and transformed as part of the social web, with its convergence of personal expression, interpersonal communication and online social networks (most recently via platforms such as Flickr, Facebook and Twitter). Meanwhile, the digital storytelling movement (involving the workshop-based production of short autobiogr…
That’s not necessarily for them’: LGBTIQ+ young people, social media platform affordances and identity curation
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and other non-heterosexual and gender diverse (LGBTIQ+) young people utilise a range of digital media platforms to explore identity, find support and manage boundaries. Less well understood, however, is how they navigate risk and rewards across the different social media platforms that are part of their everyday lives. In this study, we draw on the concept of affordances, as well as recent wor…
The remediation of the personal photograph and the politics of self-representation in digital storytelling
Over the past couple of decades, the cultural field formerly known as 'domestic', and later 'personal' photography has been remediated and transformed as part of the social web, with its convergence of personal expression, interpersonal communication and online social networks (most recently via platforms such as Flickr, Facebook and Twitter). Meanwhile, the digital storytelling movement (involving the workshop-based production of short autobiogr…
I will not hate myself because you cannot accept me ”: Problematizing empowerment and gender-diverse selfies
While selfies of beautiful cisgender women are declaimed by mainstream media as narcissistic and facile, some body-positive feminists and queer theorists argue that selfies can be empowering. They claim self-representation by traditionally stigmatized people can challenge normative presentations of beauty and gender. This article problematizes “empowerment” as a definitive and/or productive frame and argues instead for observation and analysis of…
The social life of data: Strategies for Categorizing Fluid and Multiple Genders
Accurate data collection from LGBTIQ+ communities is crucial for public health research and the provision of equitable services. Emergent fluid, multiple, trans and non-binary gender identities complicate data collection in ways that make an excellent case-study for rethinking the categorization of such data. In this article, we explore some of the obstacles to collecting data from trans, gender-diverse and non-binary (TGD) communities, and the d…
Not your unicorn: Trans Dating App Users' Negotiations of Personal Safety and Sexual Health
The Feminist Press] framework of 'pharmacopornographisation', the analysis aims to contextualise participants' experiences of being 'seen' and 'known' by health professionals and other app users. Our findings indicate that both dating apps and sexual health services rely on reductive systems of sorting and categorisation that reinforce binary understandings of genders and sexualities in order to facilitate data management and information sharing …
Waiting to be seen: Social Perspectives on Trans Health
The remediation of the personal photograph and the politics of self-representation in digital storytelling
Over the past couple of decades, the cultural field formerly known as 'domestic', and later 'personal' photography has been remediated and transformed as part of the social web, with its convergence of personal expression, interpersonal communication and online social networks (most recently via platforms such as Flickr, Facebook and Twitter). Meanwhile, the digital storytelling movement (involving the workshop-based production of short autobiogr…
I will not hate myself because you cannot accept me ”: Problematizing empowerment and gender-diverse selfies
While selfies of beautiful cisgender women are declaimed by mainstream media as narcissistic and facile, some body-positive feminists and queer theorists argue that selfies can be empowering. They claim self-representation by traditionally stigmatized people can challenge normative presentations of beauty and gender. This article problematizes “empowerment” as a definitive and/or productive frame and argues instead for observation and analysis of…
Curating Technologies of Memory and Affect
Technologies of memory and affect are all around us. In this introduction to a special issue of Media International Australia on the theme of technologies of memory and affect, we report on the activities of year-long collaborative and interdisciplinary research programme funded by the Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities. We offer insights into the research program, its structure and methodologies, from which some of these articles …
Little Islands of Empathy: Networked Stories of Gender Diversity and Multiple Selves
This article draws on a methodologically interesting case study called 'Stories Beyond Gender', in which a small group of trans* people collaborates in social media storytelling. Building on the possibilities manifest in other more explicitly personal-as-political genres like digital storytelling, I explore the potential of this facilitated workshop practice to establish meaningful connections across difference, forging affinities that may contin…
That’s not necessarily for them’: LGBTIQ+ young people, social media platform affordances and identity curation
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and other non-heterosexual and gender diverse (LGBTIQ+) young people utilise a range of digital media platforms to explore identity, find support and manage boundaries. Less well understood, however, is how they navigate risk and rewards across the different social media platforms that are part of their everyday lives. In this study, we draw on the concept of affordances, as well as recent wor…
Waiting to be seen: Social Perspectives on Trans Health
Not your unicorn: Trans Dating App Users' Negotiations of Personal Safety and Sexual Health
The Feminist Press] framework of 'pharmacopornographisation', the analysis aims to contextualise participants' experiences of being 'seen' and 'known' by health professionals and other app users. Our findings indicate that both dating apps and sexual health services rely on reductive systems of sorting and categorisation that reinforce binary understandings of genders and sexualities in order to facilitate data management and information sharing …
Social media use among bisexuals and pansexuals: Connection, harassment and mental health
Analysing survey data from 1,304 LGBTQ + young people in Australia collected in 2016, this paper considers key distinctions between the experiences of bisexual and pansexual participants, and lesbian and gay participants in relation to social media use and aspects of connection, harassment and mental health. Presenting quantitative data, illustrated by qualitative extracts, we found broad similarities in motivations for using social media and how…
The social life of data: Strategies for Categorizing Fluid and Multiple Genders
Accurate data collection from LGBTIQ+ communities is crucial for public health research and the provision of equitable services. Emergent fluid, multiple, trans and non-binary gender identities complicate data collection in ways that make an excellent case-study for rethinking the categorization of such data. In this article, we explore some of the obstacles to collecting data from trans, gender-diverse and non-binary (TGD) communities, and the d…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Social media (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)