Digital and Social Media
Pseudonym Publics, Sexual Cultures and
the Real Name Web
Seminar presenter: Visiting Honorary Professor Ben
Light, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Wednesday 25th June, 4.30pm to
5.30pm
Mary Seacole Building, room 1.51
Through an Actor-Network Theory method informed analysis
of the hook
up site Squirt, I demonstrate, in a UK context at least, how
publicly networked social media and digital devices inform, and allow for, the
co-existence of a broad spectrum of sexual politics, sexual preferences and
sexual practices. Such an analysis suggests a need for critically reflexive
interpretations of the potentials of networked publics and the assumptions of
publicness that can be attached to them when they become interwoven with
discourses of the real name web. With this analysis, I illustrate the existence
of what I term pseudonym publics. Such publics display the characteristics of
networked publics, hold the potentials for connection and disconnection with
physical worlds but do not demand an engagement with the heteronormative
assumptions of the real name web.
To
register your interest in attending this free event, please go to this link: Digital and Social Media Seminar in order for us to provide
appropriate refreshments.
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