Traveling imagery

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ID2653882
AuthorsPenille Kærsmose Bøegh Rasmussen, Penille Rasmussen (0000-0002-4929-2281, Public Health Dayton & Montgomery County), Dorte Marie Søndergaard (0000-0002-8859-8590, Aarhus University)
Year2020
Volume36
Issue67
Pages076-099
Publication date2020-02-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedieKultur Journal of media and communication research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0900-9671 • E-ISSN: 1901-9726
PublisherDet Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7146/mediekultur.v36i67.113983
OpenAlexW3153482794
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited36

How is the sexualized digital imagery that young people engage in enacted and spread? How are negotiations of normativity reshaped by analogue-digital involve- ment? This study travels through shady as well as easily accessible parts of the web, combining insights with analogue research approaches in trying to contemplate these questions in new ways. We use digital ethnography, analogue fieldwork, inter- views, and helpline cases to study how young people's sexualized imagery moves through and transforms across boundless networks, and also across digital and analogue space. Thinking with new materialist analytics, we show how these move- ments blur the distinction between mundane and abusive practices, and how the opaque and indeterminate character of the material functions as a game changer and affects what it means to be young in gendered communities. Although the effects vary among different young people and among different social groups, in all cases they infiltrate conditions for becoming, positioning, and relating

Epistemology · Ethnography · Materialism · Media studies · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · Virtual space · Anthropology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Artificial Intelligence

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