Beschreibung:
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.
1. Introduction2. Postfeminism, Girls and Young Women, and Digital MediaPART I: SEXUAL SELF-REPRESENTATIONS3. Heterosexy Images on Social Network Sites4. Girls, Sexting and Gender PoliticsPART II: VALUABLE AND DEVALUED SELVES5. Postfeminist Self-Making: Textual Self-Representation and the Performance of "Authentic" Young Femininity on Social Network Sites6. Digital Girls in Crisis? Seeking Feedback and Representing Pain in Postfeminist Networked PublicsAfterword: Notes on Visibility and Self-Exposure