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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Dear colleagues, please see below, now with working URLs:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Special Issue of Social Media + Society</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Making Digital Cultures of Gender and Sexuality with Social Media</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Eds Jean Burgess, Elija Cassidy, Stefanie Duguay, and Ben Light</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Sociocultural Internet research has, for most of its history, engaged with</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">questions of gender and sexuality. Early work exploring the emancipatory</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">potential of the Internet, for example, pointed optimistically towards the</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">possibilities for gender fluidity, but more critically towards the problems</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">of gender tourism and the reinforcement of biologically deterministic</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">conceptions of gender roles. Either way, digital cultures are sites of</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">gender construction. Similarly, sexualities have been digitally mediated and</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">re-mediated as people with diverse sexual identities have found support via</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">networked media, experienced the entanglement of physical and digitally</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">mediated embodiments of sexuality, and digital media have been used for</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">both challenging and preserving heteronormativity.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">This special issue aims to bring together new research and scholarship on</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">onn how digital cultures of gender and sexuality are made, focusing on</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">social media as a particular sociotechnical and cultural site of these</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">processes. Everyday social media activities are comprised not just of</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">exchanges between users but also involve the influence of platform owners,</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">designers, and other stakeholders, such as marketers and data miners. For</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">example, although Facebook©ös decision to allow users to display a custom</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">gender identity (outside the male/female binary) appears to be empowering to</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">users, even this additional element of self-presentation is influenced by</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">programmed specifications, datafiable for profit, and dependent on</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Facebook©ös corporate policy-makers.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">The importance of considering digital cultures of gender and sexuality</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">further, and a key reason for this issue, is due to a number of</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">developments. First, more people than ever are participating with digital</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">cultures due to social media. However, the nature of this participation is</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">complicated, mutable and in no way uniform. Second, the sophistication of</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">the devices, infrastructures, functions and interfaces presented by social</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">media to users is, without welcoming in technological determinism, arguably</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">becoming greater. Moreover, this sophistication is at the same time both</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">visible and invisible depending upon a range of considerations ¡© such as</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">levels of digital literacy, commercial interests, algorithmic programming,</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">politics and power.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">This special issue seeks to further interrogate questions of the</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">contemporary making of digital cultures of gender and sexuality with social</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">media. Whilst difference-based approaches to understanding the gendered</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">make up of social media users and audiences have been addressed, this issue</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">focuses upon the ways in which gender and sexuality are constructed and</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">circulated with and by this media. Possible topics might include:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">* Identity</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">* Harassment, discrimination, and cyberbullying</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">* Activism, resistance, and reappropriation</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">* Cultures and communities</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">* Commodification and political economies</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">* Inscription and regulation of gender and sexuality by software</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">* Circulation of gender and sexuality based controversies</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">* Pornography</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">* Digitally mediated dating and personal relationships</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">* Sexual health and wellbeing</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">* Intersections of gender and sexuality with age, ethnicity, (dis)ability,</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Etc.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas;">Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted to Ben Light</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">(<a href="mailto:ben.light@qut.edu.au">ben.light@qut.edu.au</a> <<a href="mailto:ben.light@qut.edu.au">mailto:ben.light@qut.edu.au</a>> ) by 1 June 2015. Where</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">appropriate, please nominate an author for correspondence. On the basis of</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">these short abstracts, invitations to submit full papers (of no more than</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">8000 words) will then be sent out by 14 June 2015. Full papers will be due</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">by 31 August 2015, and will undergo the usual Social Media and Society</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">review procedure. Please note that an invitation to submit a full paper for</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas;">review does not guarantee paper acceptance.</div>
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