ERIC Number: EJ1155529
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Publication Date: 2017
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Selfies, Relfies and Phallic Tagging: Posthuman Part-icipations in Teen Digital Sexuality Assemblages
Renold, Emma; Ringrose, Jessica
Educational Philosophy and Theory, v49 n11 p1066-1079 2017
Inspired by posthuman feminist theory, this paper explores young people's entanglement with the bio-technological landscape of image creation and exchange in young networked peer cultures. We suggest that we are seeing new formations of sexual objectification when the more-than-human is foregrounded and the blurry ontological divide between human (flesh) and machine (digital) are enlivened through queer and feminist Materialist analyses. Drawing upon multimodal qualitative data generated with teen boys and girls living in urban inner London and semi-rural Wales (UK) we map how the digital affordances of Facebook "tagging" can operate as a form of coercive "phallic touch" in ways that shore up and transgress normative territories of dis/embodied gender, sexuality and age. We conclude by arguing that we need creative approaches that can open up spaces for a posthuman accounting of the material intra-actions through which phallic power relations participate in predictable and unpredictable ways.
Descriptors: Sexuality, Telecommunications, Social Media, Social Networks, Feminism, Photography, Qualitative Research, Adolescents, Urban Areas, Gender Issues, Age Differences, Power Structure, Foreign Countries, Human Body, Student Attitudes, Interviews, Disadvantaged Schools, Rural Areas
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (London); United Kingdom (Wales)
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