18,503 Gendered cultures in platform economies: entertainment, expertise and online selfhood

CALL FOR PAPERS GENDERED CULTURES IN PLATFORM ECONOMIES: ENTERTAINMENT, EXPERTISE AND ONLINE SELFHOOD

20th – 21st November 2023

ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Avenida das Forças Armadas,

1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal

This conference explores gender in the context of expert entertainment cultures in platform economics. We look for 250-word abstracts in the following themes:

•    Optimizing gender and sexuality

•    Optimizing womanhood and motherhood

•    Life coaches, self-help gurus and self-curating

•    Manosphere, pick up artists and new masculinities

•    Prank videos and sexism

•    Queer identities between entrepreneurialism and empowerment

•    ‘How-to-Succeed’ guides and cultures

•    Growing plants and pets

•    The performance of gender in animal videos (cuteness/ strength)

•    Confidence culture and the psy-industries

•    Feel-good economy, therapeutic cultures and neo-spiritualism

•    The gendered self as a project and work of art

•    Fitness, beauty and the body

•    Discipline and self-restraint

•    Amateur and professional labour

•    Individualized gendered practices Vs. collective mobilisation

TIMELINE

9 June 2023   Abstract submission deadline

14 July 2023  Acceptance/Rejection notification

8 September 2023    Registration to the conference

20-21 November 2023   Conference in Lisbon

To submit your abstract, please send an email to: conference@eumeplat.eu