Balázs Boro
Biographic Data
| ID | 168220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Balázs Boro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Balázs |
| FAMILY NAME | Boro |
| SIGNATURE | BORO B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0494-3597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
For adults only? Childhood, liminality and the queer unqueering of drag
Traditionally considered entertainment for adults, drag has increasingly entered children’s cultural worlds in recent years, sparking intense debates about age-appropriateness, on the one hand, and the dilution of drag’s transgressive promise on the other. In this article, I consider a range of cross-media examples to unpack these anxieties and the normativities that shape the meanings of drag and childhood across different representations of thi…
Skin-on-skin: Silicone nipple covers and the aesthetics of natural beauty in contemporary Chinese fashion culture
This article examines the growing popularity of silicone nipple covers among female consumers in mainland China, exploring how their material and haptic aesthetics resonate with cultural imaginations of ‘natural beauty’ in the Chinese context. In this study, we propose that these consumer products are not only practical accessories but also aesthetic objects that evoke what we term a ‘skin-on-skin imagination’ – a sensory fantasy in which the sil…
Queering babies: (Auto)ethnographic reflections from a gay parent through surrogacy
Televisual transformations: The making of (media) citizens in interventional television productions
Interventional reality programmes often give rise to speculations about how they treat their contributors. However, little is known about the actual production practices that lie behind these complex and often contradictory media texts. Based on in-depth interviews with crew members of a variety of popular formats, this article explores how ordinary people are turned into subjects of emancipation and spectacular transformations. By analysing the …
Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge
This roundtable paper is part of the project ‘Digitized Love and Intimacy on Hinge.’ It aims to investigate how digital dating apps reconfigure cultural attitudes to love and intimacy and, conversely, how said attitudes influence digital dating practices. The conversation is informed by (n)ethnographic usage of the app. As algorithms and affordances of dating applications can implicitly or explicitly privilege certain groups of users and exclude …
Beyond the Tourist Experience: Analyzing the Imagination of Place and Travel in Everyday Life
This article advocates a new agenda for (media) tourism research that links questions of tourist experiences to the role and meaning of imagination in everyday life. Based on a small-scale, qualitative study among a group of 17 respondents of diverse ages and backgrounds currently residing in the Netherlands, we offer an empirical exploration of the places that are of importance for people's individual state of mind and investigate how these plac…
Dating the Media: Participation, Voice, and Ritual Logic in the Disability Dating Show The Undateables
Interventional television formats centering around the ritual transformation of “ordinary people” are not only followed by sizable audiences worldwide but also attract large numbers of aspiring candidates. Although the benefits and consequences of participating in such shows have long been debated within academia and beyond, research into actual experiences of participating in such television productions remains scarce. Based on in-depth intervie…
These cameras are here for a reason’ – media coming out, symbolic power and the value of ‘participation’: Behind the scenes of the Dutch reality programme Uit de Kast
This article addresses the increasing popularity of coming out as mediatized practice, by focusing on the example of the internationally successful Dutch television programme Uit de Kast (‘Out of the Closet’). While the choice of coming out in front of the cameras is often received controversially both by the public and the protagonists’ immediate environment, youngsters keep applying to participate in the programme. To understand the continuous …
Coming out with the media: The ritualization of self-disclosure in the Dutch television programme Uit de Kast
Using the media to disclose one’s sexual identity has become an increasingly salient practice in recent years. Yet little is known about the reasons for the emergence of this form of self-disclosure. Based on an analysis of the Dutch television programme Uit de Kast (‘Out of the Closet’), this article relates the rise of mediated coming out practices to the ritualizing power of the media: we argue that media plays a quintessential role in transfo…
Close encounters: Ritualizing proximity in the age of celebrity. An ethnographic analysis of meet-and-greets with Dutch singer Marco Borsato
For many celebrities, organizing meet-and-greets with fans and followers has become a permanent feature of their public appearances. As yet little is known about the role and importance of such ‘unmediated’ encounters within the everyday constitution of celebrity culture. Why would fans be interested in the possibility of direct, personal contact with people they already know from the media? To find an answer to this question, this article presen…
Coming out with the media: The ritualization of self-disclosure in the Dutch television programme Uit de Kast
Using the media to disclose one’s sexual identity has become an increasingly salient practice in recent years. Yet little is known about the reasons for the emergence of this form of self-disclosure. Based on an analysis of the Dutch television programme Uit de Kast (‘Out of the Closet’), this article relates the rise of mediated coming out practices to the ritualizing power of the media: we argue that media plays a quintessential role in transfo…
Dating the Media: Participation, Voice, and Ritual Logic in the Disability Dating Show The Undateables
Interventional television formats centering around the ritual transformation of “ordinary people” are not only followed by sizable audiences worldwide but also attract large numbers of aspiring candidates. Although the benefits and consequences of participating in such shows have long been debated within academia and beyond, research into actual experiences of participating in such television productions remains scarce. Based on in-depth intervie…
Close encounters: Ritualizing proximity in the age of celebrity. An ethnographic analysis of meet-and-greets with Dutch singer Marco Borsato
For many celebrities, organizing meet-and-greets with fans and followers has become a permanent feature of their public appearances. As yet little is known about the role and importance of such ‘unmediated’ encounters within the everyday constitution of celebrity culture. Why would fans be interested in the possibility of direct, personal contact with people they already know from the media? To find an answer to this question, this article presen…
These cameras are here for a reason’ – media coming out, symbolic power and the value of ‘participation’: Behind the scenes of the Dutch reality programme Uit de Kast
This article addresses the increasing popularity of coming out as mediatized practice, by focusing on the example of the internationally successful Dutch television programme Uit de Kast (‘Out of the Closet’). While the choice of coming out in front of the cameras is often received controversially both by the public and the protagonists’ immediate environment, youngsters keep applying to participate in the programme. To understand the continuous …
Close encounters: Ritualizing proximity in the age of celebrity. An ethnographic analysis of meet-and-greets with Dutch singer Marco Borsato
For many celebrities, organizing meet-and-greets with fans and followers has become a permanent feature of their public appearances. As yet little is known about the role and importance of such ‘unmediated’ encounters within the everyday constitution of celebrity culture. Why would fans be interested in the possibility of direct, personal contact with people they already know from the media? To find an answer to this question, this article presen…
Coming out with the media: The ritualization of self-disclosure in the Dutch television programme Uit de Kast
Using the media to disclose one’s sexual identity has become an increasingly salient practice in recent years. Yet little is known about the reasons for the emergence of this form of self-disclosure. Based on an analysis of the Dutch television programme Uit de Kast (‘Out of the Closet’), this article relates the rise of mediated coming out practices to the ritualizing power of the media: we argue that media plays a quintessential role in transfo…
These cameras are here for a reason’ – media coming out, symbolic power and the value of ‘participation’: Behind the scenes of the Dutch reality programme Uit de Kast
This article addresses the increasing popularity of coming out as mediatized practice, by focusing on the example of the internationally successful Dutch television programme Uit de Kast (‘Out of the Closet’). While the choice of coming out in front of the cameras is often received controversially both by the public and the protagonists’ immediate environment, youngsters keep applying to participate in the programme. To understand the continuous …
Dating the Media: Participation, Voice, and Ritual Logic in the Disability Dating Show The Undateables
Interventional television formats centering around the ritual transformation of “ordinary people” are not only followed by sizable audiences worldwide but also attract large numbers of aspiring candidates. Although the benefits and consequences of participating in such shows have long been debated within academia and beyond, research into actual experiences of participating in such television productions remains scarce. Based on in-depth intervie…
Beyond the Tourist Experience: Analyzing the Imagination of Place and Travel in Everyday Life
This article advocates a new agenda for (media) tourism research that links questions of tourist experiences to the role and meaning of imagination in everyday life. Based on a small-scale, qualitative study among a group of 17 respondents of diverse ages and backgrounds currently residing in the Netherlands, we offer an empirical exploration of the places that are of importance for people's individual state of mind and investigate how these plac…
Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps - A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge
This roundtable paper is part of the project ‘Digitized Love and Intimacy on Hinge.’ It aims to investigate how digital dating apps reconfigure cultural attitudes to love and intimacy and, conversely, how said attitudes influence digital dating practices. The conversation is informed by (n)ethnographic usage of the app. As algorithms and affordances of dating applications can implicitly or explicitly privilege certain groups of users and exclude …
Queering babies: (Auto)ethnographic reflections from a gay parent through surrogacy
Televisual transformations: The making of (media) citizens in interventional television productions
Interventional reality programmes often give rise to speculations about how they treat their contributors. However, little is known about the actual production practices that lie behind these complex and often contradictory media texts. Based on in-depth interviews with crew members of a variety of popular formats, this article explores how ordinary people are turned into subjects of emancipation and spectacular transformations. By analysing the …
For adults only? Childhood, liminality and the queer unqueering of drag
Traditionally considered entertainment for adults, drag has increasingly entered children’s cultural worlds in recent years, sparking intense debates about age-appropriateness, on the one hand, and the dilution of drag’s transgressive promise on the other. In this article, I consider a range of cross-media examples to unpack these anxieties and the normativities that shape the meanings of drag and childhood across different representations of thi…
Skin-on-skin: Silicone nipple covers and the aesthetics of natural beauty in contemporary Chinese fashion culture
This article examines the growing popularity of silicone nipple covers among female consumers in mainland China, exploring how their material and haptic aesthetics resonate with cultural imaginations of ‘natural beauty’ in the Chinese context. In this study, we propose that these consumer products are not only practical accessories but also aesthetic objects that evoke what we term a ‘skin-on-skin imagination’ – a sensory fantasy in which the sil…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Politics (4 works)