Postfeminist Self-Making: Textual Self-Representation and the Performance of “Authentic”Young Femininity on Social Network Sites

Dobson, Amy Shields

doi:10.1057/9781137404206_5

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“…This subtlety could emerge from the precarity of women’s gender performance in public spaces (Butler, 2009). On social media in particular, women are pressured to balance an almost paradoxical self that is simultaneously idealized, legible, and authentic (Dobson, 2015). They may favor understated posing cues to conform to a desirable and normative identity category without risking over-performance.…”

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Quantifying the feminine self(ie): Gender display and social media feedback in young women’s Instagram selfies

Butkowski

Dixon²,

Weeks

et al. 2019

New Media & Society

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A growing body of research suggests that young women tend to replicate normative feminine cues popularized through mass media in their selfies, or self-taken mobile phone photographs. Among these stereotypical cues are posing behaviors documented in Goffman’s gender display framework, which visualize a power imbalance between men and women. We completed a content analysis to investigate gender display in young women’s Instagram selfies alongside its relationship to feedback such as likes and comments. In this study, a novel scalar measure of gender display captures both the categorical manifestation and the exaggeration of gender stereotypical cues. We found that gender display is prevalent in women’s Instagram selfies but presented in subtle ways. In addition, women who incorporate and exaggerate gender displays in their selfies tend to receive more feedback. We suggest that gender stereotyping in Instagram selfies is related to reinforcing feedback and call for closer measurement and contextualization of gender performance in user-generated content.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantifying the feminine self(ie): Gender display and social media feedback in young women’s Instagram selfies

Butkowski

Dixon²,

Weeks

et al. 2019

New Media & Society

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“…On the other hand, social media data are often 'loose', 'noisy', and 'scattered' since they contain user-generated and self-motivated content that are driven by self-representation [27]. This is different from typical surveys, which often have focused sample groups and ask targeted questions.…”

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Understanding Perceived Site Qualities and Experiences of Urban Public Spaces: A Case Study of Social Media Reviews in Bryant Park, New York City

2020

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Urban public spaces are a key component to the well-being and prosperity of modern society. It has been increasingly important to improve the qualities and maximize the usages of urban public spaces. There is a lack of studies that investigate how people use and perceive urban parks using quantitative analysis of location-based social media reviews. This study tackles this gap by introducing a case study that uses social media reviews (Tripadivisor.com) to understand the perceived site quality and experiences of Bryant Park in New York City. A large dataset including 11,419 Tripadvisor reviews from 10,615 users was collected. LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation), a natural language processing and machine learning technique, was used to perform topic modeling analysis that could reveal hidden themes in large amounts of text. The results include five semantic topics and their associated topic terms. A comprehensive overview of the user experiences in Bryant Park were provided along with their weekly and monthly dynamics. The findings provide insights for future public space designers and managers by revealing how users describe the designs and operations of Bryant Park.

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“…This is consistent with traditional gender-role theory in which women are responsible for managing the emotional labour in relationships (Duncombe & Marsden, 1993; Horne & Johnson, 2018). Although willing self-objectification might be understood as an expression of women’s ownership of their sexual desires, a component of postfeminism (Burkett & Hamilton, 2012; Dobson, 2015), women’s accounts did not reveal ownership but rather the obligation to please their male partners.…”

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Pornography and sexual relationships: Discursive challenges for young women

Ashton

McDonald

Kirkman

2020

Feminism & Psychology

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In Australia and many countries, pornography offers omnipresent, stimulating, easily accessible sexual content; it is an increasing contributor to social meaning-making in women’s sexual lives, including their relationships. Previous research tended to focus on adverse outcomes without considering how women might experience pornography’s interaction with intimacy and relationships. We therefore sought women’s perspectives through in-depth interviews about pornography conducted with 27 young self-identified women, who have or intended to have sex with men, living in Australia. Analysis of their accounts revealed that young women are perplexed by the interaction of pornography with relationships and attempt to make sense of what it means through discourses of intimacy, fidelity, and sexual freedom. Seven associated (often contradictory) systems of statements contributing to these discourses were identified: Pornography mediates intimacy; Men are the gatekeepers of intimacy; For intimacy, women need to objectify themselves to compete with pornography; Religions equate pornography with infidelity; Using pornography is relaxation and therefore not infidelity; Men have an inherent right to sexual fulfilment; and Sexual freedom is paramount. Women’s accounts prioritised the needs of men, relationships, and the ideal of sexual freedom; no discourse prioritised women’s needs. These insights can be used to understand the complex association between women’s sexual relationships and pornography and as a contribution to appropriate clinical support when it is requested.

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Postfeminist Self-Making: Textual Self-Representation and the Performance of “Authentic”Young Femininity on Social Network Sites

Cited by 51 publications

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Quantifying the feminine self(ie): Gender display and social media feedback in young women’s Instagram selfies

Quantifying the feminine self(ie): Gender display and social media feedback in young women’s Instagram selfies

Understanding Perceived Site Qualities and Experiences of Urban Public Spaces: A Case Study of Social Media Reviews in Bryant Park, New York City

Pornography and sexual relationships: Discursive challenges for young women

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