Gender and Digital Cultures
The research theme on Gender and Digital Cultures delves into various issues surrounding gender, race, and sexuality within our contemporary digital society.
- Feminist Social Media and Identity Politics: Investigating how social media platforms influence and shape practices related to gender and race.
- Social Media, Sex, and Sexual Identities: Examining how social media platforms both shape and confine expressions of sexuality and sexual identities, along with understanding the labor and effort required for such negotiations.
- Feminist Digital Activism and Resistance: Exploring how feminist activists navigate complex technological ecosystems (i.e. platforms, datafication) to build awareness of and resist misogyny, violence against women, and oppressive experiences.
- Digital Media, Mobilities, Migration, and Ageing: Analysing the formation and navigation of the digital divide within migration contexts. This also includes understanding how older migrants utilise digital media from their homelands to navigate social disconnections using multi-sited ethnographic and visual methods (photo elicitation and videography).
- Platform Cultures, Gendered Body Anxieties, and Surveillance Cultures: Investigating how platforms shape the body image perceptions of young women.
- Queer Media Studies: Delving into representations of the LGBTIQ community, along with exploring Australia's queer TV histories and populist queer politics.