Overview

Digital media and mobile-based technologies have changed how young people interact in different spheres of their experiences. Considering the centrality of digital media in young adults’ lives, Young Adulthood Across Digital Platforms explores how they engage with mobile applications, incorporating them into their everyday lives and embodying them in their daily practices. Rooted in an intersectional and feminist approach, authors incorporate a future focus on new horizons for researching youth uses of apps and their (re)negotiation of gender and sexual identities from a Media Studies perspective. Adopting a critical lens towards contemporary digital media, chapters consider how young adults navigate digital technologies and mobile applications' technicity and conceptual underpinnings, seamlessly integrating them into their daily routines and utilising them to create engagement between communities that promote health and deconstruct myths of disinformation disorder. As sociocultural products actively reshape gender relations, sexual practices and other core aspects of young people’s lives, Young Adulthood Across Digital Platforms posits technology as a potent generator of meaning, subjectivity and agency intricately intertwined with power dynamics.

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Author:   Inês Amaral (University of Coimbra, Portugal) ,  Rita Basílio de Simões (University of Coimbra, Portugal) ,  Ana Marta M. Flores (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
ISBN:  

9781837535255

ISBN 10:   1837535256
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   27 November 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Reimagining identity in mobile apps: The intersection of gender and sexuality among young adults; Ana Marta M. Flores, Inês Amaral, and Rita Basílio de Simões Chapter 2. Young adulthood digital cultures and practices: An overview; Eduardo Antunes and Frederico Fonseca Chapter 3. Gender Across Digital Platforms; Inês Amaral, Ana Marta M. Flores, and Eduardo Antunes Chapter 4. The Storefront of Gender in the Portuguese Google PlayStore; Ana Marta M. Flores, Sofia P. Caldeira, and Elena Pilipets Chapter 5. Young Adults’ (Re)Negotiation of Gender and Sexual Identities Across Mobile Apps in Portugal; Rita Alcaire, Sofia José Santos, and Filipa Subtil Chapter 6. Fostering intimacy in a digital environment: Couples, mobile apps and romantic relationships; Rita Sepúlveda Chapter 7. Monitoring bodies and selves: Unveiling menstrual tracking apps under Foucault's concepts; Juliana Alcantara Chapter 8. Doing gender in WhatsApp homosocial groups; Cosimo Marco Scarcelli Chapter 9. Community engagement with health messages on reproductive health in an age of misinformation and political polarisation: A case study of the US NGO Open Arms in Florida; Carolina Matos Chapter 10. Views from inside: Young adults' practices of self-governance on app-based platforms; Rita Basílio de Simões, Inês Amaral, and Ana Marta M. Flores

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Inês Amaral is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. Rita Basílio de Simões is Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) and collaborates with CEIS20, also from the University of Coimbra, and ICNOVA, from the Nova University of Lisbon. Ana Marta M. Flores is Researcher at ICNOVA/iNOVA Media Lab, affiliated with NOVA University Lisbon, and Postdoctoral Researcher in the MyGender project at the University of Coimbra.

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