Daniel Cardoso: CESNOVA – FCSH/UNL; CICANT – ULHT
Mafalda Mota: FPCE-UP
No âmbito de um estudo exploratório sobre as representações Kink/BDSM na imprensa escrita portuguesa, o presente trabalho procura compreender a produção mediática sobre BDSM em articulação com o fetichismo. A partir da análise de quatro reportagens escritas que abordam de forma central o fetichismo – e recorrendo a Análise Quantitativa de Discurso Assistida por Computador, a Análise de Discurso e a Análise de Imagem – esta apresentação pretende elucidar a forma instável como o fetichismo é enquadrado como estando à parte e simultaneamente dentro do BDSM, ao mesmo tempo que é utilizado como expressão visual mais auto-evidente desse mesmo BDSM. De modo a tentar criar uma forma de conceptualizar as relações tensionais e funcionais entre BDSM e fetichismo, exploramos a função paródica do jogo kinky face à noção foucauldiana de poder e questionamos as noções de objecto de desejo e de naturalidade do desejo tal como são frequentemente aplicadas (de forma psicanalítica) ao fetichismo, procurando encontrar sinergias por entre a diversidade de dissidências sexuais/eróticas.
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Authors
Daniel Cardoso (FCSH - UNL / ECATI - ULHT)
Cristina Ponte (FCSH - UNL)
Abstract
This research, conducted in the context of a PhD thesis, tries to extend the notion of “sexualized usages of (new) media” beyond the tropes of pornography and sexting, by also taking in consideration the search for information on sexual and reproductive health, as well as online forms of activism and networking. Drawing from a snowball sample of about 180 Portuguese youngsters between the ages of 16 and 19 years old that responded to an online survey spread through Facebook and also through several NGOs, we analyze the similarities and differences between genders in how they interact with these technologies, as well as to how they view the importance of both sexuality and sexual usages of new media in their lives. Preliminary results of the quantitative part of this research point to how gender impacts youngsters’ lives by generating different modes of usage of new media, which means that similarities and differences coexist. Results regarding the usage of the internet and mobile phones to exchange sexual messages, and to access fora, sexual content and health/sexual information will be explored. These results will be presented alongside existing international research, and read in the context of Foucault’s work on the sexuality dispositif, and the current debate about sexualization (Smith & Attwood, 2011) and pornographication (Smith, 2010), arguing for a more nuanced view of the interactions between media and its users (McKee, 2005; 2007; 2009; 2010; 2012) and against simplistic models of media effects (McKee, 2009). These results hope to point out the need for a more integrated approach to what sexualized means, beyond the articulation of media panics over sexuality and youngsters.
Keywords: sexualization, pornography, new media, youngsters, sexting, Foucault
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RATIONALE:
The Queering Communication and Media Studies aims at introducing to the field of Communication and Media Studies both theoretical approaches and applied case-studies inspired by Queer Theory, which, to a large extent, is still in its onset at national level. Born out of interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity, very much like Cultural Studies and Communication and Media Studies, Women’s Studies, Feminist and Gender Studies and Gay and Lesbian Studies, Queer Theory has open the path to extremely productive, insightful, groundbreaking methodological approaches and lines of research that have been earning due recognition in academe and the scientific community at large. The vast width of the scope of Communication and Media Studies provides for an immense field of research objects and topics, covering the media, the arts, the specific areas of psychology, sociology, anthropology, history and technology of communication, to which an entire array of analytic tools and theoretical notions inspired by Queer Theory can be applied. The papers presented in this symposium all testify to this, extending from an exam of the visibility of BDSM in popular culture and its coverage by the press, an inquiry on the ambivalence of media images of Portugal both as bearer of progress and modernity and as a backward catholic country concerning the portraying of the gay couple in press and TV debates, and the deconstruction of stereotyped ways of portraying both masculinity and femininity in costumes in ethnographic cinema from the standpoint of the intersection between queer theory and fashion theory.
CHAIRS – António Fernando Cascais and João Manuel de Oliveira
No próximo dia 23 de abril, pelas 17h, integrada nas Talks.com (edição 2.0 |2014), decorrerá a sessão Representações e Linguagem em Igualdade de Género, na Universidade Lusófona do Porto (sala 0.5).
A sessão contará com a presença e dinamização do Mestre Daniel Cardoso (FCSH-UNL/ ECATI-ULHT).
A entrada é livre.
O evento é organizado pelo Projeto PubliDiversidade - Representações Sociais e Igualdade de Género na Publicidade, em parceria com o Curso de Licenciatura em Ciências da Comunicação e da Cultura da Universidade Lusófona.
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