Online discourses and practices on gender tend to reflect dominant ideas from societies, just as symbolic materials are outcomes of social arrangements that legitimate and strengthen an essential division of society. Online and digital spaces are not only technological arenas, as they reinforce power relations, perpetuating hegemonic masculinities and femininities anchored in heteronormativity.
Taking an interest in the nuances of the dynamics between technology and gender, this ECREA 2022 pre-conference focuses in particular on the field of mobile applications (m-apps). Through a call for papers, the ‘Doing gender’ across mobile apps pre-conference invited abstracts on studies and analyses of the gendered possibilities of mobile applications, grammars, platform politics and content, as well as their uses, appropriations and embodiments, in order to make sense of how they are shaping hegemonic normativity and changing gender roles.
The MyGender project organizes and promotes this ECREA 2022 pre-conference:‘Doing gender’ across mobile apps, opening the registrations to the interested public, in this event that will take place via online, free of charge and open to the public (by registering until the 16th of October, at this link or in the form below).
Here you will find the full programme, for the ECREA 2022 pre-conference ‘Doing gender’ across mobile apps organised by the MyGender project to be held on 18 October, according to Danish time zone (CEST):
18.10.2022 | Tuesday
10h30 – 12h (CEST) – equivalent to 9h30 – 11h in Portugal | Presentations and debate:
- Digital Gender Contestations Social Media and Democracy in a Cross-Stance, Cross-Culture and Cross-Platform Perspective | Łukasz Szulc
- Sexual digital cultures: scientific production and lines of research on dating apps and gender | Natalia Reis Gomes
- Systems of Attraction – Dating app experiences of trans and gender non-conforming young adults | Yvonne Prinzellner e Ali Simon
- Social media selves – rethinking the Proteus effect | Gabriela Poleac
14h – 16h (CEST) – equivalent to 13h – 15h in Portugal | Presentations and debate:
- Fight Against stigma: How Female’s We Media Reshape Social Issues about HPV? | Xinying Tan e Jiangcheng Wang
- Apps, couples and gender. A critical analysis of digital stores offer | Rita Sepúlveda
- Performing femininity in the gig economy. A comparative case study between domestic and sex work | Margherita Di Cicco e Elief Vandevenne
- Embodying and transgressing gender norms: the uses of smartphones by Saudi women in Riyadh | Helene Bourdeloi̇e
- Fatherhood Representations on YouTube | Çağla Çavuşoğlu
Pre-conference ‘Doing gender through mobile applications
Organization: Project University of Coimbra/MyGender (PTDC/COM-CSS/5947/2020)
ECREA related section: Gender, Sexuality and Communication
You can register using the form below:
