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Sex and sexuality hold considerable social and political importance. With the ever more constant presence of digital media in our lives, the relationship between communication technologies, sex and sexuality has become a priority issue for policy makers and institutions, especially in regard to young people. Simultaneously and, in recent years, we have seen an increase in studies in the field of sex media (Attwood 2018), with a certain predominance of works from the psychological and medical fields. Nonetheless, there is a scarce quantity of work that focuses on what it means for researchers to work in this field. Recalling the concept of 'dirty work', this paper serves as a starting point for a broader discussion on what it means to study the relationship between (digital) media, sexuality and young people in sociology and media studies, in Italy. It pays particular attention to the recognition of this field of study within academia, teaching, research, phases of results publication and personal planning. This work also insists on the need for full recognition of the importance and value of studies that concern the perceptions, preferences, assumptions, and social and cultural conditions surrounding practices such as sexting, erotic chat, sharing sexually explicit photos, dating and searching for sexual information, among others. This paper ultimately defines the main road that will allow sociology and media studies to take back territory that has long been the prerogative of medicine and psychology. In turn, this will provide educators, policy makers, health professionals and other stakeholders new tools to support the creation of gazes more inclined to understand than judge, with an eye to the political form of sexuality, the logic of the media and the sexual citizenship of young people.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Young People, the Smartphone, and Our Deeply Mediatised World -- Chapter 2: The Smartphone as an Infrastructural Media Technology -- Chapter 3: Intimately Connected Devices -- Chapter 4: Digital Photography Practices -- Chapter 5: Smartphones, Music Platforms, and the Algorithm Selection -- Chapter 6: Apps and Consumer Experiences -- Chapter 7: Smartphones beyond Addiction.

This edited collection illuminates the scope with which identities and intimacies interact on a wide range of social media platforms.

A varied range of international scholars examine the contexts of very different social media spaces, with topics ranging from whitewashing and memes, parental discourses in online activities, Spotify as an intimate social media platform, neoliberalisation of feminist discourses, digital sex work, social media wars in trans debates and 'BimboTok'. The focus is on their acceleration and impact due to the specificities of social media in relation to identities, intimacies within the broad 'political' sphere. The geographic range of case study material reflects the global impact of social media, and includes data from Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the USA.

This enlightening and rigorous collection will be of key interest to scholars in media studies and gender studies, and to scholars and professionals of social media.



The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Editors' introduction -- PART I: Young people, sexuality and gender performance: Texts and audiences -- 1. Feminist YouTubers in Spain: A public space for building resistance -- 2. Un/fit for young viewers: LGBT+ representation in Flemish and Irish children's television -- 3. Breaking the silence: Young people, sex information and the internet in Italy and Portugal -- 4. COVID-19 pandemic and discourses of anxiety about childhood sexuality in digital spaces -- PART II: Adults, sexuality, gender and the media in research perspective -- 5. HIV-related stigma in the European cinema: Conflictive representations of a cultural trauma -- 6. Build it and they will come: Sex toys, heteronormativity and age -- 7. Fuelling hate: Hate speech towards women in online news websites in Albania -- 8. 'Tell me how old I am': Cinema, pedagogy, adults and underage trans folks -- PART III: Elderly have a voice(?): Sexuality, gender and the media across texts and audiences -- 9. Invisible aged femininities in popular culture: Representational strategies deconstructed -- 10. 'Old dirty pops and young hot chicks': Age differences in pornographic fantasies -- 11. Hustling and ageism in the films Eastern Boys and Brüder der Nacht -- 12. Ageing women on screen: Disgust, disdain and the Time's Up pushback -- 13. No Country for Old Men?: Representations of the ageing body in contemporary pornography -- Index.

This edited collection brings together original empirical and theoretical insights into the complex set of relations which exist between age, gender, sexualities and the media in Europe. This book investigates how engagements with media reflect people's constructions and understandings of gender in society, as well as articulations of age in relation to gender and sexuality; the ways in which negotiations of gender and sexuality inform people's practices with media, and not least how mediated representations may reinforce or challenge social hierarchies based in differences of gender, sexual orientation and age. In doing so, it showcases new and innovative research at the forefront of media and communication practice and theory. Including contributions from both established and early career scholars across Europe, it engages with a wide range of hotly debated topics within the context of gender, sexuality and the media, informing academic, public and policy agendas.This collection will be of interest to students and researchers in gender studies, media studies, film and television, cultural studies, sexuality, ageing, sociology and education.