This book explores the controversial social media practices engaged in by girls and young women, including sexual self-representations on social network sites, sexting, and self-harm vlogs. Informed by feminist media and cultural studies, Dobson delves beyond alarmist accounts to ask what it is we really fear about these practices.

Autorentext
Amy Shields Dobson is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. She previously lectured in Sociology and Gender at Monash University, Australia. Amy has published several articles and chapters in international anthologies on young people's social media practices and gender politics. Her current projects examine sexting in schools, and female genital cosmetic surgery in Australia, including the role of social media.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Postfeminism, Girls and Young Women, and Digital Media PART I: SEXUAL SELF-REPRESENTATIONS 3. Heterosexy Images on Social Network Sites 4. Girls, Sexting and Gender Politics PART II: VALUABLE AND DEVALUED SELVES 5. Postfeminist Self-Making: Textual Self-Representation and the Performance of "Authentic" Young Femininity on Social Network Sites 6. Digital Girls in Crisis? Seeking Feedback and Representing Pain in Postfeminist Networked Publics Afterword: Notes on Visibility and Self-Exposure