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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear CSAA Colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My new <i><span lang="EN" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/postfeminist-digital-cultures-amy-shields-dobson/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137404206"><span style="color:#0563C1">Postfeminist
Digital Cultures:</span><span style="color:#0563C1;font-style:normal"> </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:#0563C1">Femininity, Social Media, and Self-Representation</span></a></span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">
</span></i>is<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>available now and may be of interest to some CSAA members<span style="color:#1F497D">.</span><i><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">Reviews:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">"Dobson’s remarkable book on girls’ and young women’s digital culture could not be more relevant for the current moment. Covering a wide range of digital media, from SNS self-representations to YouTube videos to sexting,
Dobson offers us an indispensable resource for thinking through how girls and young women navigate the conditions of post- and popular feminism in contemporary culture. Crucially, Dobson refuses to generalize about digital practices and instead reveals the
complexities of gendered self-representation in digital culture, calling on us to carefully and constructively analyze dynamics of power rather than make quick moral judgments about girls’ and young women’s media use. This clear and deeply engaged book is
an essential guide for understanding the complex ways in which girls and young women represent themselves in digital culture."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Sarah Banet-Weiser, Professor and Director, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, Annenberg, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"This is a beautifully written and cool-headed approach to the social media practices of young women today. Dobson finds the perfect line between respecting girls as cultural producers and asking some hard questions about their digital cultures as ways of 'getting
by' in postfeminism. And she deftly turns the camera back to feminist cultural studies, offering some welcome reflection about the work of critique in politically complicated times. A rigorous, impressive, and important book that cuts through the debate about
what girls are doing online, and what we should be doing about it. Dobson’s work is right where we need to be."
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Anita Harris, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Monash University, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Postfeminist Digital Cultures</i> explores some of the more controversial and contested social media practices engaged in by girls and young women, including sexual self-representations on social network sites, sexting, and self-harm
vlogs. Informed by feminist media and cultural studies, Dobson delves beyond alarmist accounts to ask what it is we fear about young women's self-representation in networked publics, and unpacks the complexity of digitally mediating young femininity in the
postfeminist era.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr Amy Shields Dobson
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">University of Queensland Postdoctoral Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="https://uq.academia.edu/AmyShieldsDobson">https://uq.academia.edu/AmyShieldsDobson</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Forthcoming book:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/postfeminist-digital-cultures-amy-shields-dobson/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137404206">Postfeminist Digital Cultures:<span style="font-style:normal">
</span><span lang="EN-AU">Femininity, Social Media, and Self-Representation</span></a></span></i><i><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">.</span></i><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">
</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">New York: Palgrave Macmillan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">New journal articles:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14681811.2015.1050486#abstract">‘Sext education:<b>
</b><span lang="EN-AU"> pedagogies of sex, gender and shame in the schoolyards of <i>Tagged</i> and <i>Exposed’</i></span></a></span><span style="color:#474747;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">, Amy Dobson and Jessica Ringrose<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10304312.2015.1022955#.VXo8DKN-99A">‘Theorizing agency in post-girlpower times’</a>, Anita Harris & Amy Dobson:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Level 4, Forgan Smith Tower (Building 1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">The University of Queensland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">St Lucia QLD 4072 AUSTRALIA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">E: <a href="mailto:a.dobson3@uq.edu.au">
a.dobson3@uq.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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