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In this paper, I ask what the self-representations of young women on social network sites can tell us about the conditions and experience of inhabiting femininity in the digitally mediated post-feminist context. First, I outline four conditions of post-feminist girlhood that I suggest young women must navigate in the processes of subjectivity construction. I then describe some of the common kinds of performativity found on a small selection of social network site profiles owned by young Australian women. I suggest that a 'shameless' affect may be a necessary form of self-protection for these young women, operating in contexts that appear to require copious amounts, and intense forms, of self-display. The kind of 'shameless' affectations we can see on young women's social network site profiles may also be a way of resisting the dominant terms by which contemporary femininity is understood as normatively 'melancholic' or damaged.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I Shaping Intimacy -- Chapter 1 Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media: Towards Theorising Public Lives on Private Platforms -- Theorising Digital Intimate Publics -- Excessive and Ambivalent Publicisation -- Excessive, Unambivalent, Privatisation -- Digital Intimacy as Social Capital -- Beyond Social Capital, Towards an Ethics of Expanded Care? -- Digital Intimacy as Labour -- The Labour of Being Excessive -- The Labour of Digitising Social Reproduction -- The Labour of Training Algorithms -- Conclusion: Digital Intimate Publics Are Not Public Enough -- References -- Chapter 2 Publicising Privacy, Weaponising Publicity: The Dialectic of Online Abuse on Social Media -- Introduction -- Online Abuse and Harassment -- The Dialectic Relation of 'Public' and 'Private' -- Intimate Publics on Social Media and the Dialectic of Abuse -- Technology and Gender Relations -- The Importance of Dialectic Theorising for Online Abuse -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Software Intimacies (Social Media and the Unbearability of Death) -- References -- Chapter 4 Snapshots of Afterlife: The Cultural Intimacies of Posthumous Camera Phone Practices -- Introduction -- Digital Intimate Publics -- Picture This: The Affect of Camera Phone Agency -- Memorialized, Intimate Publics: A Case Study of Camera Phones During a Disaster -- Conclusion: Localizing Selfie Agency -- References -- Chapter 5 Remembering Through Facebook: Mediated Memory and Intimate Digital Traces -- Introduction -- Background -- Methodology -- Piecing Together a (Facebook) Past -- Co-created Intimate Memories -- Imperfect Memories -- Remembering Through Facebook: Critical Reflections -- References -- Chapter 6 Sexting, Intimate and Sexual Media Practices, and Social Justice -- Introduction.

This book explores emergent intimate practices in social media cultures. It examines new digital intimacies as they are constituted, lived, and commodified via social media platforms. The study of social media practices has come to offer unique insights into questions about what happens to power dynamics when intimate practices are made public, about intimacy as public and political, and as defined by cultural politics and pedagogies, institutions, technologies, and geographies. This book forges new pathways in the scholarship of digital cultures by fusing queer and feminist accounts of intimate publics with critical scholarship on digital identities and everyday social media practices. The collection brings together a diverse range of carefully selected, cutting-edge case studies and groundbreaking theoretical work on topics such as selfies, oversharing, hook-up apps, sexting, Gamergate, death and grief online, and transnational family life.--