References

Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn University, Estonia)
Emily van der Nagel (Monash University, Australia)

Sex and Social Media

ISBN: 978-1-83909-409-5, eISBN: 978-1-83909-406-4

Publication date: 10 July 2020

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Tiidenberg, K. and van der Nagel, E. (2020), "References", Sex and Social Media (Society Now), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 171-189. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-406-420201009

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Recommended Readings

The journals The journals Porn Studies, Sexualities, Social Media + Society, New Media & Society, and Feminist Media Studies are all key within this field.

These books These books have more to say about sex and the internet generally:

Attwood, 2017 Attwood, F. (2017). Sex media. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Nixon and Düsterhöft, 2018 Nixon, P. , & Düsterhöft, I. K. (Eds.). (2018). Sex in the digital age. London: Routledge.

Paasonen et al., 2019 Paasonen, S. , Jarrett, K. , & Light, B. (2019). NSFW: Sex, humor, and risk in social media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Sexting & Dick Pics

Albury, 2015 Albury, K. (2015). Selfies, sexts, and sneaky hats: Young people's understandings of gendered practices of self-representation. International Journal of Communication, 9, 17341745.

Hasinoff, 2012 Hasinoff, A. A. (2012). Sexting as media production: Rethinking social media and sexuality. New Media & Society, 15(4), 449465.

Hasinoff, 2015 Hasinoff, A. A. (2015). Sexting panic: Rethinking criminalization, privacy, and consent. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Hayes and Dragiewicz, 2018 Hayes, R. M. , & Dragiewicz, M. (2018). Unsolicited dick pics: Erotica, exhibitionism or entitlement? Women's Studies International Forum, 71, 114120.

Paasonen et al., 2019 Paasonen, S. , Light, B. , & Jarrett, K. (2019, April–June). The dick pic: Harassment, curation, and desire. Social Media + Society, 5(2), 110.

Ringrose and Harvey, 2015 Ringrose, J. , & Harvey, L. (2015). Boobs, back-off, six packs and bits: Mediated body parts, gendered reward, and sexual shame in teens' sexting images. Continuum, 29, 205217.

Shields Dobson, 2018 Shields Dobson, A. (2018). Sexting, intimate and sexual media practices, and social justice. In A. Shields Dobson , B. Robards , & N. Carah (Eds.), Digital intimate publics and social media (pp. 93110). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Waling and Pym, 2017 Waling, A. , & Pym, T. (2017). ‘C'mon, no one wants a dick pic’: Exploring the cultural framings of the ‘dick pic’ in contemporary online publics. Journal of Gender Studies, 28(1), 7085.

Walrave et al., 2018 Walrave, M. , Van Ouytsel, J. , Ponnet, K. , & Temple, J. R. (Eds.). (2018). Sexting: Motives and risk in online sexual self-presentation. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hook-up Apps

Albury et al., 2017 Albury, K. , Burgess, J. , Light, B. , Race, K. , & Wilken, R. (2017). Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps: Emerging issues for critical social science research. Big Data & Society, 4(2), 111.

Albury and Byron, 2016 Albury, K. , & Byron, P. (2016, October–December). Safe on my phone? Same-sex attracted young people's negotiations of intimacy, visibility, and risk on digital hook-up apps. Social Media + Society, 2(4), 110.

Duguay, 2017 Duguay, S. (2017). Dressing up Tinderella: Interrogating authenticity claims on the mobile dating app Tinder. Information, Communication & Society, 20(3), 351367.

Hess and Flores, 2018 Hess, A. , & Flores, C. (2018). Simply more than swiping left: A critical analysis of toxic masculine performances on Tinder Nightmares. New Media & Society, 20(3), 10851102.

Light, 2014 Light, B. (2014). Producing sexual cultures and pseudonymous publics with digital networks. In R. A. Lind (Ed.), Race and gender in electronic media: Content, context, culture (pp. 231246). London: Routledge.

Social Media Affordances

Bucher and Helmond, 2017 Bucher, T. , & Helmond, A. (2017). Social media affordances and interfaces. In J. Burgess , T. Poell , & A. Marwick (Eds.), SAGE handbook of social media. London: SAGE Publications.

Davis and Chouinard, 2017 Davis, J. L. , & Chouinard, J. B. (2017). Theorizing affordances: From request to refuse. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 36(4), 18.

Evans et al., 2017 Evans, S. K. , Pearce, K. E. , Vitak, J. , & Treem, J. W. (2017). Explicating affordances: A conceptual framework for understanding affordances in communication research. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 22(1), 3552.

Nagy and Neff, 2015 Nagy, P. , & Neff, G. (2015, July–December). Imagined affordance: Reconstructing a keyword for communication theory. Social Media + Society, 1(2), 19.

Social Media Audiences, Identities and Collapsing Contexts

boyd, 2011 boyd, d. (2011). Social network sites as networked publics: Affordances, dynamics, and implications. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A networked self: Identity, community, and culture on social network sites (pp. 3958). New York, NY: Routledge.

Light, 2014 Light, B. (2014). Producing sexual cultures and pseudonymous publics with digital networks. In R. A. Lind (Ed.), Race and gender in electronic media: Content, context, culture (pp. 231246). London: Routledge.

Litt, 2012 Litt, E. (2012). Knock, knock. who's there? The imagined audience. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 56(3), 330345.

Litt and Hargittai, 2016 Litt, E. , & Hargittai, E. (2016). The imagined audience on social network sites. Social Media + Society, 2(1), 112.

Marwick and boyd, 2010 Marwick, A. E. , & boyd, d. (2010). I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience. New Media & Society, 13(1), 114133.

Oolo and Siibak, 2013 Oolo, E. , & Siibak, A. (2013). Performing for one's imagined audience: Main online privacy strategies of Estonian teens. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 7(1). Retrieved from https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/4276/3319

Porn

Attwood, 2010 Attwood, F. (2010). Porn.com: Making sense of online pornography. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Jacobs et al., 2007 Jacobs, K. , Janssen, M. , & Pasquinelli, M. (Eds.). (2007). C'lickme: A netporn studies reader. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.

McKee, 2012 McKee, A. (2012). Pornography as entertainment. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 26(4), 541552.

Paasonen, 2010 Paasonen, S. (2010). Labors of love: Netporn, Web 2.0, and the meanings of amateurism. New Media & Society, 12(8), 12971312.

Paasonen, 2011 Paasonen, S. (2011). Carnal resonance: Affect and online pornography. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Shame and Shaming

Dobson, 2013 Dobson, A. S. (2013). Performative shamelessness on young women's social network sites: Shielding the self and resisting gender melancholia. Feminism & Psychology, 24(1), 97114.

Levey, 2018 Levey, T. G. (2018). Sexual harassment online: Shaming and silencing women in the digital age. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

Mercer, 2018 Mercer, J. (2018). Sex positivity and the persistence of shame. Sexualities, 21(8), 13041307.

Probyn, 2005 Probyn, E. (2005). Blush, faces of shame. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Scheff, 2000 Scheff, T. J. (2000). Shame and the social bond: A sociological theory. Sociological Theory, 18(1), 8499.

Scheff, 2001 Scheff, T. J. (2001). Shame and community: Social components in depression. Psychiatry, 64(3), 212224.

Shah, 2015 Shah, N. (2015). The selfie and the slut: Bodies, technology and public shame. Economic and Political Weekly, 17, 8693.

LGBT Cultures and Communities Online

Byron, 2019 Byron, P. (2019). ‘How could you write your name below that?’ The queer life and death of Tumblr. Porn Studies, 6(3), 336349.

Cho, 2018 Cho, A. (2018). Default publicness: Queer youth of color, social media, and being outed by the machine. New Media & Society, 20(9), 31833200.

Dhoest and Szulc, 2016 Dhoest, A. , & Szulc, L. (2016). Navigating online selves: Social, cultural, and material contexts of social media use by diasporic gay men. Social Media + Society, 2(4), 110.

Duguay, 2016 Duguay, S. (2016, April–June). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer visibility through selfies: Comparing platform mediators across Ruby Rose's Instagram and vine presence. Social Media + Society, 2(2), 112.

Duguay et al., 2018 Duguay, S. , Burgess, J. , & Suzor, N. (2018). Queer women's experiences of patchwork platform governance on Tinder, Instagram, and Vine. Convergence, 116.

Hanckel et al., 2019 Hanckel, B. , Vivienne, S. , Byron, P. , Robards, B. , & Churchill, B. (2019). ‘That's not necessarily for them’: LGBTIQ+ young people, social media platform affordances and identity curation. Media, Culture & Society, 41(8), 12611278.

Embodiment Online

Slater, 2002 Slater, D. (2002). Making things real: Ethics and order on the internet. Theory, Culture & Society, 19(5/6), 227245.

Sundén, 2003 Sundén, J. (2003). Material virtualities: Approaching online textual embodiment. New York, NY: Peter Lang.