In the context of recent controversies surrounding censorship lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer online content, specifically on YouTube Tumblr, we interrogate relationship between normative understandings sexual citizenship content classification regimes. We argue that these systems platforms’ responses to public criticism both operate as norm-producing technologies, in which complexities sexuality desire are obscured order cultivate notions a ‘good’ or citizen. However, despite...

Health misinformation on social media has largely been examined from a harms-focused perspective, with scholars seeking to identify what impacts public health and popular focus removing it platforms. The act of debunking is one response wherein corrected knowledge scientific sources. To date, little research exists examining how experts the engage beyond harm. Using Karen Barad's concept diffraction, we examine iterative relationships between misinformation, obstetrician-gynaecologists...

The short-form video-sharing app TikTok is the fastest growing social media platform globally, particularly among young people, and attracting significant academic interest. However, voices of people have been mostly absent from these debates. This article offers a qualitative study how are using to make care-full digital worlds in around Sydney, Australia, drawing on interviews with sixteen bringing together literatures geographies care, practices. Research participants identified...

Drawing on findings from qualitative interviews and photo elicitation, this article explores young people’s experiences of breaches trust with social media platforms how comfort is re-established despite continual violations. It provides rich accounts users habitual relations platforms. In particular, we seek to trace the process by which online affordances create conditions in “sharing” regarded as not only routine benign but pleasurable. Rather it withholding data that abnormalized. This...

Digital self-tracking devices increasingly inhabit everyday landscapes, yet many people abandon self-trackers not long after acquisition. Although research has examined why discontinue these devices, less explores what actually happens when unplug. This article addresses this gap by considering the embodied and habitual dimensions of discontinuance. We consider potential for digital data – their unanticipated affects to linger within practices even device is abandoned. draw on philosophies...

Facebook is the most used social media platform globally, despite frequent and highly publicised criticism of some its practices. In this article, we bring together perspectives from vital materialism scholarship – particularly Jane Bennett’s concept ‘thing-power’ with our empirical research on Australian users to identify what they find important valuable about platform. Findings are presented in form seven case studies use, identifying lively affective forces, relational connections...

Like other fangirls, fans of former boyband One Direction (“Directioners”) have often been represented in media discourse as obsessive and hysterical, with fan behaviour interpreted longing for heterosexual intimacy band members. Subverting this heteronormative framing, a group Directioners known “Larries” built sub-fandom around imagining relationship (“ship”) between two the members, Harry Styles Louis Tomlinson. Representation Larry fandom has gone beyond pathologizing fangirls to framing...

Introduction There are many competing explanations for why people drawn to conspiracy theories. Increasingly, theories mainstream sites of cultural engagement (Barkun). Conspiracy theorising, then, is part of, or at least brushes up against, people’s daily sense-making practices. However, still think theorising and the communities that form around them as deviant, pathological deficient (Swami et al.). In this article, we argue need shift from a model deviant understanding understand these...

There is a pressing need to facilitate sensitive conversations between people with differing or opposing views. On video-sharing app TikTok, the diverse experiences of donor-conceived and recipient parents sit uneasily alongside each other, coalescing in hashtags like #donorconceived. This article describes method ‘Situated Talk’ which uses TikToks reflexive encounter, drawing on three areas scholarship: media ethnography elicitation, researcher reflexivity duoethnography/collaborative...

Objective: This paper examines the ways in which young people Eastern Canada learn about menstruation and construct personal period pedagogies through embodied experiences encounters with digital social media. Design: A qualitative exploratory approach was undertaken to elicit stories voices of who menstruate. Menstruation is conceptualised as a deeply bio-social phenomenon knowledge understood created, contested negotiated across settings contexts. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were...

This article explores the queer practices of a subgroup One Direction fans known as Larries. The Larries believe that former boyband members Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson (referred to by portmanteau ‘Larry Stylinson’) were, or are, in relationship. draws on digital ethnography with Larry fandom conducted Twitter across 2018 argues their involve reading strategies disrupt heterosexual narratives create space for desire. While are invested ‘reality’ ship, we also suggest fan oriented...