Tisha Dejmanee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3047328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tisha Dejmanee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tisha |
| FAMILY NAME | Dejmanee |
| SIGNATURE | DEJMANEE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7517-211X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Queer and trans influential peers: Negotiating platforms for community care
Many LGBTQ+ people offer community support on social media, including for young people facing mental health challenges. We interviewed five Australian queer and trans digital content creators known for this support and explore their motivations, community affiliations and negotiations of platform affordances. These creators described their practices as ‘community-building’ and negotiate platform affordances to prioritise community safety. Through…
Fantasies of food work and digital entrepreneurialism: Postfeminist Time Panic on Food Blogs
In the postfeminist context, discourses of time panic and time scarcity are used to generate a culture of anxiety that justifies gender traditionalism. Food blogs offer unique insights into the ways that these postfeminist discourses of temporality and labour are negotiated in the daily, lived experiences of individual women. I draw on a sample of 19 Saveur Award-nominated food blogs to explore how they respond to concepts of time panic and time …
An Australian beauty-lover based in Singapore”: Negotiating Asian Australian identity in the beauty vlogosphere
This article explores how the conventions and culture of beauty vlogging elucidate Asian Australian identity and politics. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of Asian Australian beauty vlogger Tina Yong’s vlogs, I explore how national, ethnic, and racial identities are negotiated through platform logics, commercial imperatives, and community participation. Yong’s vlogs offer tangible ways to narrate the mundane, everyday experiences of Asian Austr…
Users’ Sense of Empowerment, Communicative Behavior, and Public Engagement on Instagram: An Examination of the #Blackouttuesday Conversations
BlackoutTuesday was a digital action devised as part of the unprecedentedly large Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. This study builds on Black Lives Matter research through its three main objectives: To test three new independent variables — race, gender, and source — in determining the demonstration of users’ empowerment; to test race, gender, and source to determine users’ communicative behavior on Instagram; and, to investigate the connecti…
Grappling With the Model Minority Myth: Asian American Food Bloggers’ Activism Through Black Lives Matter on Instagram
While Asian American food bloggers constitute an overrepresented racial minority within the predominantly white food blogosphere, food blogs rarely constitute productive spaces for discussing or building community around Asian American experiences even when published by Asian American bloggers. This study addresses the need for further intersectional analyses of food blogs that specifically take race into account as it explores the racial discour…
The Gendered Ethos of Pseudoscience: Feminized Discourse on Food Safety in the Blogosphere
In this paper, we explore the gendered aspects of scientific controversy in the digital age. This project makes use of Leah Ceccarelli’s seminal work on manufactured scientific controversy by considering its implications for the discourse on GMOs and food additives published on digital food and lifestyle blogs. We perform a discourse analysis of several blogs to look at the ways that gendered online discourse and performance influences modern ant…
Aboriginallivesmatter: Mapping Black Lives Matter discourse in Australia
This paper explores the hashtag #AboriginalLivesMatter on Instagram which was widely used in Australia as part of a global Black Lives Matter (BLM) response in 2020. We map the participants and themes of #AboriginalLivesMatter through the quantitative coding and qualitative thematic analysis of 603 Instagram posts published with this hashtag in June 2020. We find that this conversation is largely driven by celebrities and non-Indigenous participa…
Nostalgic nationalism and the banal Anthropocene on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Across 24 seasons and 260 episodes of the Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, host Guy Fieri guides viewers through an All-American road trip to discover independent ‘mom-and-pop’ restaurants that are ‘off the beaten path’. With this mission, and through an aesthetic that draws on the symbols of post-war American culture, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives weaves food and car culture together to evoke a nostalgic and idealistic nationalism. W…
The Food Network's Heartland Kitchens: Cooking up neoconservative comfort in the United States
Since 2010, the Food Network has introduced a series of female-hosted, daytime shows that emphasise conservative regions of the United States and glamorise traditional gender roles. I discuss the shared characteristics of such shows and explain how this kitchen-centred neoconservatism emanates from a culture of national anxiety, as well as the parallel shifts to traditionalism incited by foodie culture, post-feminism and neo-liberalism. I contend…
Introduction: Feminism and food media
Popular feminism and teen girl fashion blogs
In this paper, I explore the popular feminism that is expressed through teen girl fashion blogs. Popular feminism is a nascent movement which displaces postfeminism as the dominant discourse of feminism in popular culture and, while it is a varied movement, I view one important tenet of popular feminism as the connection wrought between creative media production, precocious girlhood and feminism. Drawing on a sample of fifteen teen fashion blogs,…
Waves and popular feminist entanglements: Diffraction as a feminist media methodology
Waves ... are not things per se; rather, they are disturbances ... that propagate in a medium. (Karen Barad 2007, 76)Waves are conceptually integral to feminist history and politics. Most recently, thi
Food Porn” as Postfeminist Play: Digital Femininity and the Female Body on Food Blogs
The styling and online circulation of food photography has become a phenomenon endemic to social media. In this article, I explore this digital “food porn” within the feminized space of food blogs and contextualize it within a postfeminist culture rife with contradictions about women’s bodies, consumption, and sexuality. Drawing on postfeminist and feminist corporeal theory, I historicize the longstanding associations between food and the female …
Consumption in the city: The turn to interiority in contemporary postfeminist television
In this article, I discuss a postfeminist ‘turn to interiority’ which takes place in US postfeminist television from 2005 onwards. Drawing on the theoretical critiques of postfeminist retreatism and girlie femininity, this turn is characterised by a concern with interior spaces – reviving domesticity and the importance of finding and securing a home – as well as internalised consumption – replacing forms of material consumption with the quest for…
Nursing at the Screen: Post-feminist daughters and demonized mothers on Toddlers and Tiaras
Child beauty pageants in popular culture depict the competing discourses of girlhood and motherhood that arise in the post-feminist context. These pageants portray hyperbolic femininity as a meritocratic practice of gendered discipline and consumption that yields material rewards, conflating girl power with subscription to the current social fetishisation of girl power. Moreover, this representation of girlhood highlights the irrelevance of older…
The Burdens of Caring: A Postfeminist Perspective on Peta's Animal Protection Campaigns
In this paper I use an ecofeminist and a postfeminist framework to assess two images from the long-running ‘I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur’ campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). I find that, while sexism persists in these ads, the postfeminist context illuminates a specific problem in the way that hypersexualised models are not only objectified for men, but are positioned as celebrated exemplaries, whom other women sh…
Food Porn” as Postfeminist Play: Digital Femininity and the Female Body on Food Blogs
The styling and online circulation of food photography has become a phenomenon endemic to social media. In this article, I explore this digital “food porn” within the feminized space of food blogs and contextualize it within a postfeminist culture rife with contradictions about women’s bodies, consumption, and sexuality. Drawing on postfeminist and feminist corporeal theory, I historicize the longstanding associations between food and the female …
Consumption in the city: The turn to interiority in contemporary postfeminist television
In this article, I discuss a postfeminist ‘turn to interiority’ which takes place in US postfeminist television from 2005 onwards. Drawing on the theoretical critiques of postfeminist retreatism and girlie femininity, this turn is characterised by a concern with interior spaces – reviving domesticity and the importance of finding and securing a home – as well as internalised consumption – replacing forms of material consumption with the quest for…
Popular feminism and teen girl fashion blogs
In this paper, I explore the popular feminism that is expressed through teen girl fashion blogs. Popular feminism is a nascent movement which displaces postfeminism as the dominant discourse of feminism in popular culture and, while it is a varied movement, I view one important tenet of popular feminism as the connection wrought between creative media production, precocious girlhood and feminism. Drawing on a sample of fifteen teen fashion blogs,…
The Burdens of Caring: A Postfeminist Perspective on Peta's Animal Protection Campaigns
In this paper I use an ecofeminist and a postfeminist framework to assess two images from the long-running ‘I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur’ campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). I find that, while sexism persists in these ads, the postfeminist context illuminates a specific problem in the way that hypersexualised models are not only objectified for men, but are positioned as celebrated exemplaries, whom other women sh…
Aboriginallivesmatter: Mapping Black Lives Matter discourse in Australia
This paper explores the hashtag #AboriginalLivesMatter on Instagram which was widely used in Australia as part of a global Black Lives Matter (BLM) response in 2020. We map the participants and themes of #AboriginalLivesMatter through the quantitative coding and qualitative thematic analysis of 603 Instagram posts published with this hashtag in June 2020. We find that this conversation is largely driven by celebrities and non-Indigenous participa…
Waves and popular feminist entanglements: Diffraction as a feminist media methodology
Waves ... are not things per se; rather, they are disturbances ... that propagate in a medium. (Karen Barad 2007, 76)Waves are conceptually integral to feminist history and politics. Most recently, thi
The Burdens of Caring: A Postfeminist Perspective on Peta's Animal Protection Campaigns
In this paper I use an ecofeminist and a postfeminist framework to assess two images from the long-running ‘I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur’ campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). I find that, while sexism persists in these ads, the postfeminist context illuminates a specific problem in the way that hypersexualised models are not only objectified for men, but are positioned as celebrated exemplaries, whom other women sh…
Nursing at the Screen: Post-feminist daughters and demonized mothers on Toddlers and Tiaras
Child beauty pageants in popular culture depict the competing discourses of girlhood and motherhood that arise in the post-feminist context. These pageants portray hyperbolic femininity as a meritocratic practice of gendered discipline and consumption that yields material rewards, conflating girl power with subscription to the current social fetishisation of girl power. Moreover, this representation of girlhood highlights the irrelevance of older…
Food Porn” as Postfeminist Play: Digital Femininity and the Female Body on Food Blogs
The styling and online circulation of food photography has become a phenomenon endemic to social media. In this article, I explore this digital “food porn” within the feminized space of food blogs and contextualize it within a postfeminist culture rife with contradictions about women’s bodies, consumption, and sexuality. Drawing on postfeminist and feminist corporeal theory, I historicize the longstanding associations between food and the female …
Consumption in the city: The turn to interiority in contemporary postfeminist television
In this article, I discuss a postfeminist ‘turn to interiority’ which takes place in US postfeminist television from 2005 onwards. Drawing on the theoretical critiques of postfeminist retreatism and girlie femininity, this turn is characterised by a concern with interior spaces – reviving domesticity and the importance of finding and securing a home – as well as internalised consumption – replacing forms of material consumption with the quest for…
Waves and popular feminist entanglements: Diffraction as a feminist media methodology
Waves ... are not things per se; rather, they are disturbances ... that propagate in a medium. (Karen Barad 2007, 76)Waves are conceptually integral to feminist history and politics. Most recently, thi
Introduction: Feminism and food media
Popular feminism and teen girl fashion blogs
In this paper, I explore the popular feminism that is expressed through teen girl fashion blogs. Popular feminism is a nascent movement which displaces postfeminism as the dominant discourse of feminism in popular culture and, while it is a varied movement, I view one important tenet of popular feminism as the connection wrought between creative media production, precocious girlhood and feminism. Drawing on a sample of fifteen teen fashion blogs,…
The Food Network's Heartland Kitchens: Cooking up neoconservative comfort in the United States
Since 2010, the Food Network has introduced a series of female-hosted, daytime shows that emphasise conservative regions of the United States and glamorise traditional gender roles. I discuss the shared characteristics of such shows and explain how this kitchen-centred neoconservatism emanates from a culture of national anxiety, as well as the parallel shifts to traditionalism incited by foodie culture, post-feminism and neo-liberalism. I contend…
Nostalgic nationalism and the banal Anthropocene on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Across 24 seasons and 260 episodes of the Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, host Guy Fieri guides viewers through an All-American road trip to discover independent ‘mom-and-pop’ restaurants that are ‘off the beaten path’. With this mission, and through an aesthetic that draws on the symbols of post-war American culture, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives weaves food and car culture together to evoke a nostalgic and idealistic nationalism. W…
The Gendered Ethos of Pseudoscience: Feminized Discourse on Food Safety in the Blogosphere
In this paper, we explore the gendered aspects of scientific controversy in the digital age. This project makes use of Leah Ceccarelli’s seminal work on manufactured scientific controversy by considering its implications for the discourse on GMOs and food additives published on digital food and lifestyle blogs. We perform a discourse analysis of several blogs to look at the ways that gendered online discourse and performance influences modern ant…
Aboriginallivesmatter: Mapping Black Lives Matter discourse in Australia
This paper explores the hashtag #AboriginalLivesMatter on Instagram which was widely used in Australia as part of a global Black Lives Matter (BLM) response in 2020. We map the participants and themes of #AboriginalLivesMatter through the quantitative coding and qualitative thematic analysis of 603 Instagram posts published with this hashtag in June 2020. We find that this conversation is largely driven by celebrities and non-Indigenous participa…
Users’ Sense of Empowerment, Communicative Behavior, and Public Engagement on Instagram: An Examination of the #Blackouttuesday Conversations
BlackoutTuesday was a digital action devised as part of the unprecedentedly large Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. This study builds on Black Lives Matter research through its three main objectives: To test three new independent variables — race, gender, and source — in determining the demonstration of users’ empowerment; to test race, gender, and source to determine users’ communicative behavior on Instagram; and, to investigate the connecti…
Grappling With the Model Minority Myth: Asian American Food Bloggers’ Activism Through Black Lives Matter on Instagram
While Asian American food bloggers constitute an overrepresented racial minority within the predominantly white food blogosphere, food blogs rarely constitute productive spaces for discussing or building community around Asian American experiences even when published by Asian American bloggers. This study addresses the need for further intersectional analyses of food blogs that specifically take race into account as it explores the racial discour…
An Australian beauty-lover based in Singapore”: Negotiating Asian Australian identity in the beauty vlogosphere
This article explores how the conventions and culture of beauty vlogging elucidate Asian Australian identity and politics. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of Asian Australian beauty vlogger Tina Yong’s vlogs, I explore how national, ethnic, and racial identities are negotiated through platform logics, commercial imperatives, and community participation. Yong’s vlogs offer tangible ways to narrate the mundane, everyday experiences of Asian Austr…
Queer and trans influential peers: Negotiating platforms for community care
Many LGBTQ+ people offer community support on social media, including for young people facing mental health challenges. We interviewed five Australian queer and trans digital content creators known for this support and explore their motivations, community affiliations and negotiations of platform affordances. These creators described their practices as ‘community-building’ and negotiate platform affordances to prioritise community safety. Through…
Fantasies of food work and digital entrepreneurialism: Postfeminist Time Panic on Food Blogs
In the postfeminist context, discourses of time panic and time scarcity are used to generate a culture of anxiety that justifies gender traditionalism. Food blogs offer unique insights into the ways that these postfeminist discourses of temporality and labour are negotiated in the daily, lived experiences of individual women. I draw on a sample of 19 Saveur Award-nominated food blogs to explore how they respond to concepts of time panic and time …
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Feminism (6 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (6 works)