[Air-L] CFP - ECREA Pre Conference ‘Doing gender’ across mobile apps

[Inês Amaral]

[Apologies for cross posting]

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 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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Inês Amaral
Professora Associada | Associate Professor
Diretora do 1.º Ciclo de Estudos em Jornalismo e Comunicação |
Director of the Undergraduate Program Studies in Journalism and
Communication

Universidade de Coimbra • Faculdade de Letras | University of Coimbra •
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Largo da Porta Férrea | 3004-530 • Coimbra • Portugal
Tel. | Phone: +351 239 410 090
E-mail: ines.amaral at uc.pt
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