Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture

Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture
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Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9783319915159
ISBN-13 : 3319915150
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Book Synopsis Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture by : Akane Kanai

Download or read book Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture written by Akane Kanai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the practices and the politics of relatable femininity in intimate digital social spaces. Examining a GIF-based digital culture on Tumblr, the author considers how young women produce relatability through humorous, generalisable representations of embarrassment, frustration, and resilience in everyday situations. Relatability is examined as an affective relation that offers the feeling of sameness and female friendship amongst young women. However, this relation is based on young women’s ability to competently negotiate the ‘feeling rules’ that govern youthful femininity. Such classed and racialised feeling rules require young women to perfect the performance of normalcy: they must mix self-deprecation with positivity; they must be relatably flawed but not actual ‘failures’. Situated in debates about postfeminism, self-representation and digital identity, this book connects understandings of digital visual culture to gender, race, and class, and neoliberal imperatives to perform the ‘right feelings’. Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, and media studies.


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