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A Better, Safer World: Agency, Masculinity, and The Implications of Social Media for ‘Digital Natives’
Wilson, Bee
Wilson, Bee
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In this research, I outline current understanding of social media platforms and their relations to gender identity and agency. I conducted ethnographic interviews, which I provide details from in conjunction with autoethnography, in order to contextualize how these themes interconnect, specifically how social media platforms create and enforce normative categories like gender and remove privacy from the user in exchange for digital conveniences. Overall, I find that surveillance is a state of control that young adults have become resigned to, further adumbrating their potential for exploitation, and that while less vulnerable, digital realities cannot compensate for what the physical lacks.
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2025-01-01