ABSTRACT
This edited collection illuminates the scope with which identities and intimacies interact on a wide range of social media platforms.
A varied range of international scholars examine the contexts of very different social media spaces, with topics ranging from whitewashing and memes, parental discourses in online activities, Spotify as an intimate social media platform, neoliberalisation of feminist discourses, digital sex work, social media wars in trans debates and ‘BimboTok’. The focus is on their acceleration and impact due to the specificities of social media in relation to identities, intimacies within the broad ‘political’ sphere. The geographic range of case study material reflects the global impact of social media, and includes data from Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the USA.
This enlightening and rigorous collection will be of key interest to scholars in media studies and gender studies, and to scholars and professionals of social media.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|67 pages
Old Matter in New Spaces
chapter 1|15 pages
Whitewashing and the Meme-ability of Scarlett Johansson
chapter 2|17 pages
“My Parents Check My Profile”
chapter 3|17 pages
Counselling Marriage and Love through Live-streaming in China
chapter 4|16 pages
“Music Makes the People Come Together”
part II|67 pages
Contextualising Identities and Social Media
chapter 5|18 pages
Sexual Reputation, Intersectional Intimacies and Visual Social Media
chapter 6|16 pages
“You Live and You Learn”
part III|65 pages
Negotiating Politics and Identities