TY - GEN
T1 - New Media, Old Misogyny
T2 - 7th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021
AU - Simões, Rita Basílio
AU - Amaral, Inês
AU - Santos, Sofia José
AU - Brites, Maria José
N1 - UIDB/05021/2020
UIDP/05021/2020
Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. Financial support from Portuguese national funds through FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) in the framework of the project “Online Violence Against Women: preventing and combating misogyny and violence in a digital context from the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic” (Reference GENDER RESEARCH 4 COVID-19–058).
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - From a feminist perspective, mainstream media representations have always performed disciplinary functions. Particularly, regarding ageing women. On digital platforms, individuals would have a greater agency to perform and shape gender norms and sexual roles. However, scholarship has been expressing scepticism with the liberatory promise of the online realm, as well as cautions with digital network harassment and the so-called nanosphere. Yet, little is known about how exactly misogynistic rhetoric operates on popular social media to discipline ageing women’s feminity. This paper extends the feminist scholarship to the field of Instagram, focusing specifically on representations of the pop star Madonna. It presents an analysis of how ageing women femininities representations are mobilised on Instagram through a case study of posts indexed with hashtags. Applying computational methods and drawing on the insights of Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, it approaches these networked representations by exploring the interplay between sexism and ageism within the misogynistic driven forces targeting Madonna and her ageing feminity.
AB - From a feminist perspective, mainstream media representations have always performed disciplinary functions. Particularly, regarding ageing women. On digital platforms, individuals would have a greater agency to perform and shape gender norms and sexual roles. However, scholarship has been expressing scepticism with the liberatory promise of the online realm, as well as cautions with digital network harassment and the so-called nanosphere. Yet, little is known about how exactly misogynistic rhetoric operates on popular social media to discipline ageing women’s feminity. This paper extends the feminist scholarship to the field of Instagram, focusing specifically on representations of the pop star Madonna. It presents an analysis of how ageing women femininities representations are mobilised on Instagram through a case study of posts indexed with hashtags. Applying computational methods and drawing on the insights of Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, it approaches these networked representations by exploring the interplay between sexism and ageism within the misogynistic driven forces targeting Madonna and her ageing feminity.
KW - Ageism
KW - Online misogyny
KW - Social media
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112229310&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-78108-8_32
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-78108-8_32
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85112229310
SN - 9783030781071
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 430
EP - 442
BT - Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population
A2 - Gao, Qin
A2 - Zhou, Jia
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
Y2 - 24 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
ER -
