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Designing with posthuman kinship. outlining new human-non human collaborative Open

Francesca Inzani, Massimo Bianchini, Jouke Verlinden, Sander De Ridder · 2023

Technology has increasingly become embedded in everyday activities, an extension of the human body, identity, and abilities.Our relationship with technology is becoming more symbiotic, leading us to establish new intimate and affective rel…

Sexual Reputation, Intersectional Intimacies and Visual Social Media Open

Burcu Korkmazer, Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel · 2022

In deeply digitalised societies, ‘sexual reputations’ are seen to be most ‘threatened’. Digital technologies such as smartphone cameras and social media platforms can capture and distribute moments that damage people’s sexual reputations a…

Gender, culture and morality: A case study of young people’s negotiations of sexual intimacy online Open

Burcu Korkmazer, Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel · 2022

This study adds to the existing literature on mediated sexual intimacy by exploring young people’s negotiations of sexual self-representations online within a culturally diverse sample. We apply a discourse-theoretical analysis to the data…

The Banality of Digital Reputation: A Visual Ethnography of Young People, Reputation, and Social Media Open

Sander De Ridder · 2021

This article relies on a visual ethnography with young people between 13 and 20 years old. Young people were asked to make visual collages of fictional social media accounts, which are used in this article to analyse the signification of “…

The visual digital self: A discourse theoretical analysis of young people’s negotiations on gender, reputation and sexual morality online Open

Burcu Korkmazer, Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel · 2021

Young people’s self-presentations on Instagram often display considerate discourses on gender, reputation and (sexual) morality. Previous studies have explored how these discourses are embedded in cultural narratives, while overseeing the …

Between the Mundane and the Political: Women’s Self-Representations on Instagram Open

Sofia P. Caldeira, Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel · 2020

Women’s self-representation on Instagram is often discussed in popular media in polarizing terms, as either an empowering practice or as boring and mundane. However, the political and the mundane are inevitably interwoven. This article gro…

INTIMACIES AND DIGITAL MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURES Open

Sander De Ridder, Frederik Dhaenens, Stefanie Duguay, Lindsay Ferris, Susanna Paasonen · 2020

The breadth of what it means to study intimacies in the context of media has changed significantly in recent years because of current technological, social, and cultural changes. The digital mediation of intimacy - the changing attitudes, …

“Who Does Not Dare, Is a Pussy.” A Textual Analysis of Media Panics, Youth, and Sexting in Print Media Open

Burcu Korkmazer, Sofie Van Bauwel, Sander De Ridder · 2019

The social media use of young people has become a site of increasing public interest. Young people experiencing with sexuality and intimacy in digital media spaces, has evoked public debates on youth, sexuality and social media. Sexting in…

Emerging Trends in Small Acts of Audience Engagement and Interruptions of Content Flows Open

Jelena Kleut, Tereza Pavlíčková, Ike Picone, Sander De Ridder, Bojana Romić , et al. · 2018

Exploring the Politics of Gender Representation on Instagram: Self-representations of Femininity Open

Sofia P. Caldeira, Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel · 2018

This article presents an analysis of the politics of gender representation on Instagram. It adopts a broad understanding of the political in terms of “everyday politics” and “everyday activism”. This allows for exploring the political pote…

Representing youth, sexting and digital media : a textual analysis into northern Belgian print media Open

Burcu Korkmazer, Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel · 2018

Social Media and Young People’s Sexualities: Values, Norms, and Battlegrounds Open

Sander De Ridder · 2017

This article explores how young people are making sense of sexuality in the context of social media, considering social media’s material as well as symbolic operations. Drawing on 14 focus groups ( n = 89, conducted in 2012 and 2015) with …

Interruption, disruption or intervention? Open

Tereza Pavlíčková, Bojana Romić, Jannie Møller Hartley, Ike Picone, Sander De Ridder , et al. · 2017

Chapter in Report; This report has been produced by the CEDAR network which was fundedby the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to run between 2015-2018.

Small acts of audience engagement interrupting content flows Open

Bojana Romić, Jelena Kleut, Jannie Møller Hartley, Tereza Pavlíčková, Ike Picone , et al. · 2017

Chapter in Report; This report has been produced by the CEDAR network which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to run between 2015-2018.

Mediatization and sexuality : an invitation to a deep conversation on values, communicative sexualities, politics and media Open

Sander De Ridder · 2017

Digital passages: migrant youth 2.0: diaspora, gender and youth cultural intersections Open

Sander De Ridder · 2016

As young people now grow up with digital media, digital media seem to grow with them; an increasing number of platforms and applications are an integral part of young people’s everyday lives and cu...

Challenges when researching digital audiences : mapping audience research of software designs, interfaces and platforms Open

Sander De Ridder, Lucia Vesnić-Alujević, Bojana Romić · 2016

Intimiteiten en inclusie in digitale en interactieve media : uitdadingen voor een gemediatiseerde maatschappij Open

Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel · 2016

Youth and intimate media cultures: Gender, sexuality, relationships, and desire as storytelling practices in social networking sites Open

Sander De Ridder, Sofie Van Bauwel · 2015

This paper investigates how young people give meaning to gender, sexuality, relationships, and desire in the popular social networking site (SNS) Netlog. In arguing how SNSs are important spaces for intimate politics, the extent to which N…

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