Young bodies, images, and social media

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White, Niamh; Dobson, Amy; Coffey, Julia; Gill, Rosalind; Kanai, Akane and Hawker, Kiah. 2024. Young bodies, images, and social media. In: Johanna Wyn; Helen Cahill and Hernan Cuervo, eds. Handbook of Children and Youth Studies. Singapore: Springer. ISBN 9789814451963 [Book Section]

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This chapter maps a number of significant shifts and trends in recent scholarship about young people and digital media cultures. We foreground new and emerging research on young people’s image production, with a particular focus on young femininities. The chapter is divided in to three parts. In the first part we offer a brief review of the research about sexualization, femininities, normative beauty standards and the media. Next, we chart the turn to an interest in self-images as communication, highlighting the ephemeral and affectively charged nature of body imaging, and the shift towards curating and editing the self, and tensions between the dual demands for ‘authenticity’ and ‘perfection’. The chapter then presents a case-study of the Kardashians to highlight debates about gendered and racialized ideals and authenticity.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-96-3_135-2