Jean Burgess, Elija Cassidy, Stefanie Duguay, and Ben Light of the QUT Digital Media Research Centre have posted a call for papers for a special issue of Social Media + Society they are editing on Making Digital Cultures of Gender and Sexuality with Social Media.
This special issue aims to bring together new research and scholarship
on how digital cultures of gender and sexuality are made, focusing on
social media as a particular sociotechnical and cultural site of these
processes.
Possible topics might include:
* Identity
* Harassment, discrimination, and cyberbullying
* Activism, resistance, and reappropriation
* Cultures and communities
* Commodification and political economies
* Inscription and regulation of gender and sexuality by software
* Circulation of gender and sexuality based controversies
* Pornography
* Digitally mediated dating and personal relationships
* Sexual health and wellbeing
* Intersections of gender and sexuality with age, ethnicity, (dis)ability,
etc.
Read the full call for papers here
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