[Commlist] CFP - ECREA Pre Conference ‘Doinggender’ across mobile apps

CFP - ECREA  Pre Conference ‘Doing gender’ across mobile apps

Interested in questioning how gender and sexuality are constructed in 
media production and consumption, feminist scholarship has been 
highlighting the importance of identifying dominant ideas and discourses 
and how symbolic materials are outcomes of social arrangements that 
legitimate an essential division of society. As digitisation has taken 
place, concerns have also been directed to the gendered dimension of 
human embodiment and humans’ relational practices with technology.
Research shows that collective narrative processes on mobile app-based 
platforms enhance power relations by perpetuating hegemonic 
masculinities and femininities anchored upon heteronormativity. 
Masculinities and femininities represent a culturally imagined, as well 
as discursively and semiotically conveyed, ideal of what it means to be 
and behave like a man and a woman. Understanding technology as producing 
meaning, subjectivity, and agency shaped by power relations and adopting 
a critical perspective of contemporary digital media, this 
pre-conference invites scholars to analyse mobile apps affordances, 
grammars, platform politics and content, as well as their uses, 
appropriations and embodiment, in order to make sense on how they are 
shaping hegemonic normativity and changing gender roles.
This pre-conference welcomes theoretical and empirical abstracts that 
use qualitative, quantitative or mixed methodologies and focus on these 
topics:
- How do the uses of m-apps dialogue with social and political contexts?
- How does gender identity performances vary across different m-apps?;
- To what extent do uses intertwine with the affordances of these apps?;
- How do gender identities are negotiated and imagined in user 
experiences of mobile
apps?;
- To what extent mediated interfaces reproduce or challenge normative 
imaginaries of
gender?


Abstracts focusing on other topics within gender, sexuality and app 
studies are also welcome.
The organisation of the pre-conference will publish a book with the 
articles that may be submitted.
Abstracts (300 max.) should be send to (mygender /at/ fl.uc.pt) 
<mailto:(mygender /at/ fl.uc.pt)> until 1st of July 2022. Notice of acceptance 
will be given by the 15th of July.

Date: 18 October 2022 – Full day
Location: online

Organisation: University of Coimbra / MyGender project 
(PTDC/COM-CSS/5947/2020)


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