Social Media Affordances and the Capital of Queer Self-Expression

2016 ◽  
pp. 99-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Niedt
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Alternative Identities ◽  
Real Name Policy

This chapter presents an overview of the September 2014 controversy surrounding Facebook's enforcement of their “real name policy,” the disproportionate targeting of drag performers for profile suspension, and the queer community's brief exodus to the network Ello. By drawing on research about identity in the online age, queer and subcultural theory, and the concept of affordances in social media, the author seeks to illuminate some of the causes of this incident, and the motivations of the actors involved. The online profile is framed as a locus for the construction of alternative identities—particularly those which challenge gender norms—as well as tension when that process is restricted. The author attempts to locate this concept of profiles, and the networked communities built from them, within a larger web of capital relations, exploring how the online and offline intersect therein.

Fight for Your Platform to Party: Brooklyn Drag and the Battle for a Queerer Facebook

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessa Lingel
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Queer Identity ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Real Name Policy ◽  
Drag Queens

The final field study describes Brooklyn’s contemporary drag community and their use of social media. Digital technologies provide important tools for individual self-promotion, as well as establishing a collective archive of queer identity. In particular, I consider tensions between drag queens and Facebook’s real name policy, and the ways that the platform inscribes mainstream understandings of identity.

The Trauma of Post-Apocalyptic Motherhood

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-120
Author(s):  
Melissa Ames
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Ideal Space ◽  
The Walking Dead ◽  
Walking Dead

Shifting from a focus on fictional fathers to fictional mothers, Chapter Five, analyzes the ways in which AMC's hit show, The Walking Dead (2010-present), critiques contemporary gender roles. Through a study of one particular character, Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride), this essay argues that the violent landscape of the zombie narrative might be an ideal space in which to interrogate conceptions of femininity more broadly, and maternity more specifically. This essay attends to the ways in which this character was punished within the narrative of the show for deviating from gender norms, but was embraced by fans on social media for those very same actions.

Creating Gaps in Understanding: How Gen Z Disrupts Gender Norms on TikTok

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Ellen Wynne ◽  
William Wright ◽  
Donna Alvermann
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Important Method

Abstract Since its inception, social media has been an important method of constructing and performing identity, including gender identity. Identity work on social media is perhaps especially relevant to Gen Z (those born after 1996; Parker & Igielnik, 2020), who are the first generation with access to it in early childhood. In this article, we explore how Gen Z constructs and performs gender identity and other facets of intersectional identity on popular video platform TikTok by analyzing selected content from three TikTokers through the lenses of performativity, intersectionality, and automediality.

scholarly journals Menjadi Lelaki Sejati: Maskulinitas Dalam Komik Daring Webtoon Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Asep Wawan Jatnika ◽  
Ferry Fauzi Hermawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Homosexual Orientation ◽  
Circulation Distribution ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

Perkembangan teknologi telah mengubah cara penyebaran komik di Indonesia. Saat ini internet dan media sosial menjadi salah satu media utama penyebaran komik. Salah satu media yang menjadi pilihan tempat menyebarkan dan membaca komik adalah Webtoon. Tulisan ini bermaksud menganalisis wacana homoseksualitas dan maskulinitas yang terdapat dalam komik No Homo karya Apitnobaka yang diterbikan dalam Webtoon. Menggunakan pemahaman Foucault dan Bartkly tentang panoptikon dan gender hasil kajian menunjukkan bahwa pembicaraan masyarakat (gosip) merupakan alat utama dalam pengonstruksian gender di masyarakat. Gosip berperan sebagai pengawas perilaku seperti apa yang boleh dilakukan laki-laki dan sebaliknya. Gosip berperan sebagai panoptikon dalam mengawasi pelanggengan konstruksi maskulinitas di masyarakat. Selain itu, ditemukan juga salah satu penanda maskulinitas ideal di masyarakat yaitu, laki-laki harus menjadi seorang alfa dan tidak bergantung pada orang lain. Jika seorang laki-laki tidak mampu memenuhi hal tersebut dirinya akan digolongkan bukan laki-laki ideal. Dalam komik No Homo dipandang memiliki orientasi seksual lain yaitu homoseksual yang dianggap tabu dalam masyarakat. Selain itu, komik No Homo merefleksikan dan melanggengkan anggapan bahwa orientasi seksual yang bukan hetero seperti homoseksual bukanlah berasal dari Indonesia. Hal itu dipandang sebagai bagian dari budaya Barat.Technological developments have changed the way in which comics are circulated and distributed throughout Indonesia. Currently the internet and social media have become the primary media for the distribution of comics. One of the media that has been chosen for circulation, distribution and consumption of comics is Webtoon. This paper intends to analyze discourse in subjects such as homosexuality and masculinity as can be observed in Apitnobaka's No Homo comic as published on Webtoon. Using Foucault's and Bartkly's understanding of the panopticon and the gender; this study suggests that community talk (gossip) plays a major role in gender-building in society. Gossip serves as a supervisory behaviour that shapes gender norms in society i.e., what is considered as acceptable behaviour by a male or vice versa. Gossip serves as a panopticon in overseeing the construction of masculinity in consumer society. Moreover, it can be observed that one of the markers of ideal masculinity in the community is that a male must be an alpha and does not rely on the others can be found within this comic. If a male does not capably fulfil these terms, he will consequently be classified a as non-ideal man by consumer society. In No Homo comics, the male is portrayed as being of homosexual orientation and it is considered as taboo in society. In addition, No Homo comics reflect upon and perpetuate the assumption that sexual orientation other than heterosexual such as a homosexual is apart from Indonesian heteronormative culture. However, it is viewed as being a symptom of western culture.

scholarly journals Online kinship. Social media as a site for challenging notions of gender and family.

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (61) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rikke Andreassen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
And Gender ◽  
A Site

The article shows how the technology of social media sites facilitates new kinds of kinship. It ana-lyzes how ‘donor families’ – i.e., families in which the children are conceived via sperm and/or egg donations – negotiate kinship, family formations and gender when connecting with each other online. Family formation and parenting are closely connected with gender and gender norms, and online donor families, therefore, offer an opportunity for understanding gender and gender for-mations in contemporary times and contemporary media. By analyzing commentary threads of a Facebook group connecting donor families as well as interviews with users of this Facebook group, the article shows how the affordances of social media, especially the Facebook application for smart phones, are central to the formation and maintenance of new kinship relations. Furthermore, the article illustrates how conventional practices regarding gender and families on one hand are chal-lenged by the creation of new types of families, while simultaneously being maintained in discus-sions about choice of donor. Here, a longing for traditional family values seems to run underneath the discussion between members of these new families.

scholarly journals The Drama! Teen Conflict, Gossip, and Bullying in Networked Publics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Marwick ◽  
danah boyd
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Relational Aggression ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Interpersonal Conflict ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Networked Publics

While teenage conflict is nothing new, today’s gossip, jokes, and arguments often play out through social media like Formspring, Twitter, and Facebook. Although adults often refer to these practices with the language of “bullying,” teens are more likely to refer to the resultant skirmishes and their digital traces as “drama.” Drama is a performative set of actions distinct from bullying, gossip, and relational aggression, incorporating elements of them but also operating quite distinctly. While drama is not particularly new, networked dynamics reconfigure how drama plays out and what it means to teens in new ways. In this paper, we examine how American teens conceptualize drama, its key components, participant motivations for engaging in it, and its relationship to networked technologies. Drawing on six years of ethnographic fieldwork, we examine what drama means to teenagers and its relationship to visibility and privacy. We argue that the emic use of “drama” allows teens to distance themselves from practices which adults may conceptualize as bullying. As such, they can retain agency - and save face - rather than positioning themselves in a victim narrative. Drama is a gendered process that perpetrates conventional gender norms. It also reflects discourses of celebrity, particularly the mundane interpersonal conflict found on soap operas and reality television. For teens, sites like Facebook allow for similar performances in front of engaged audiences. Understanding how “drama” operates is necessary to recognize teens’ own defenses against the realities of aggression, gossip, and bullying in networked publics.

‘Polite, no chill’ for the win: How Emily Andras engaged fans and overcame problematic tropes in Wynonna Earp

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-362
Author(s):  
Tanya N. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Comic Book

Like other successful genre shows, Wynonna Earp features a strong female lead character. Wynonna, however, is so much more than a ‘girl with a big ass gun’. In this case study of Emily Andras, I explore how women-centred writing and Andras’s engagement with fans, transformed Wynonna Earp from an overly sexualized comic book character, to a feminist icon, layered with nuance and breaking gender norms faster than revenants can make their peace. Andras’s leadership, her inclusion of LGBTQIA representation and refusal to succumb to the ‘bury your gays’ trope, also helped amass a passionate, loyal fan base that successfully lobbied producers for a fourth season after the show faced cancellation. The success of Wynonna Earp and the ‘Fight for Wynonna’, bolsters the legitimacy of women-led genre shows, women showrunners and producers, and the largely women-identified fan base, who have long loved science fiction, but have not felt accurately represented in male-centric products. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with Andras and Wynonna Earp fans, this article shows how Andras’s voice as screenwriter, leadership as showrunner, and engagement with fans on social media, demonstrates respect for fans as active and valued media partners, rather than market to be exploited.

scholarly journals ASSESSING THE WAY GENDER NORMS AFFECT TEENAGERS’ BEHAVIOUR IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL MEDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-48
Author(s):  
Corina-Maricica SESERMAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
The Way

The internet, together with its associated smart technologies, has a central, and since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic one might even add, essential position in the fluid functionality of social apparatus. This is apparent on multiple facets, but it has especially impacted the way individuals socialise and present themselves in the online space. Although it has been in use for several decades the way the Internet is perceived has changed significantly as now it has presently become an extension of the social front stage. Through the tools offered by social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, users can carefully construct their own digital versions. These characteristics have proven to be highly attractive to teenagers, as social media platforms offer them the possibility of engaging with their peers, uncover various aspects about the environment outside their familiar space and to create a digital identity. All of these aspects prove to be attractive to them as it caters to their need to seek and to have a sense of empowerment and belonging. Gender plays an important role in the process of developing one’s identity and the type of behaviour an individual chooses to present in a social environment, be it digital or otherwise. Previous studies have also pointed out the fact that gender stereotypes and gender norms affect and influence the way individuals perceive others and the type of behaviour they act out. This paper aims to pinpoint a theoretical examination of the way teenagers’ behaviour and digital identity on social media platforms is affected by the way people around them look at and perceive gender.

Where Social Media Meets AAC

ASHA Leader ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Media
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