Stefanie Duguay

Yuppp. Is it ok if I start my Tech & Gender class with a screenshot of your skeet pls?

Also, check out our double panel 77. Reimagining More-Than-Human Intimacies: From Disenchantment to Technologies for Connection from 2:30-7:30 (break in the middle!) TODAY in B 2.2.13 #STSItalia

A speaker introduces the conference in front of a screen that shows his face larger for the big audience front of him and a slide that says Welcome!

A selfie showing me in a pink shirt, smiling in front of murals along a street on the way to the conference. It’s sunny!

Opening plenary at the #STSItalia conference in Milan - beautiful day, ready for many ideas to circulate

The Association of Internet Researchers is pleased to call for submissions for the 2025 AoIR Dissertation Awards. To be eligible for the AoIR Dissertation Awards, a PhD dissertation in the area of internet research must have been filed in the 2024 calendar year. *Nominations must be received by 12 May 2025*. All methods and disciplines are welcome. This year, because we are taking our conference to Brazil, where there is a large academic community that writes in Portuguese, we will also be awarding a Dissertation Award for a doctoral dissertation written in Portuguese. This is an occasional award; we will consider offering a similar award when holding the conference in countries in which it makes sense to do so. Submissions details: * A nomination letter that explains why the dissertation is deserving of the award and how it contributes to internet research * A PDF copy of the dissertation should be emailed to dissertationaward [at] aoir.org * The graduate or their supervisor must be a member of AoIR (by 12 May 2025) * Self-nominations are permitted * “Filed in 2024” means that the dissertation has been fully defended, all edits complete, and filed/published in 2024 (this date will usually appear on the front cover or front pages of the dissertation). A letter that the student’s committee has approved the PhD can also establish this. The recipients of these awards will be announced mid-year 2025. In addition to winning a cash prize, the individual will be presented an award during the Association General Meeting(AGM) at the #AoIR2025 conference in October. In addition, and if relevant, AoIR will contribute up to US$1000 towards the cost of making a publication from the winners’ dissertation Open Access. (Please note, this is not the same as Article Processing Payments; we will support publication in reputable journals only.) Full details: https://aoir.org/2025dissawardnominations/

Submissions are open for the 2025 AoIR Dissertation Awards for internet research PhD dissertations filed in 2024. Aligning with #AoIR2025 in Brazil, we will also be offering an Award for a doctoral dissertation written in Portuguese.

*Nominations due 12 May 2025*

aoir.org/2025dissawardnominations

Last chance to register for our visiting scholar @dugstef.bsky.social's seminar at UTS tomorrow, 4pm AEDT, on Why Tinder Matters. There's only a few seats still available in the room, plus the Zoom option. Registration is essential.

Hybrid constellations: investigating the role of communication technologies in coordinating lesbian mobilities in Montreal, Canada Lesbians’ movement has been constellated across cities and lesbians have long used communication technologies to relay information across dispersed networks. This article brings together perspectiv...

New open access article on why social media platforms alone are insufficient for lesbian, sapphic, and queer social organizing, co-authored with @wettransfer.bsky.social & Alex Chartrand www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you’re writing a book right now you just have to pretend you’re a surgeon. Can’t look at your phone during surgery.

Why Tinder matters: Exploring how the app has shaped sexual and dating cultures - Stefanie Duguay SEMINAR: Stefanie Duguay on Why Tinder matters, hosted by the Digital & Social Media team at UTS School of Communication (free)

DSM is very pleased to host @dugstef.bsky.social next month. Come along to her seminar on "Why Tinder matters: Exploring how the app has shaped sexual and dating culture." Tuesday April 1, 4pm AEDT. Registration is necessary and you can attend in person or online events.humanitix.com/why-tinder-m...

The book “Reading the Room: Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom” edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe held in front of a chalk board

Perhaps more important now than ever before - can’t wait to dig into this pivotal collection, @nataliekt.bsky.social!

People laugh when I say I study dating apps but today I got to think (and write) hard about how even apps like Tinder (re)create inequities in the most mundane yet intimate parts of our everyday lives, and that seems to matter a lot

Ok, 10 minutes is enough for scrolling today…

That is the most inspirational mushroom I’ve encountered on this platform 🙂

The best choice I made when signing up to Bluesky was ticking the box to say I’m interested in nature/animals. Now at least I get cute foxes and cool mushrooms in between the doom.

I hate and love this and am going to find a way to use it in my teaching.

I have a sense that teaching is the most meaningful yet undervalued thing profs do. I doubt my ability to challenge the institutional undervaluation but can you share a moment with me from your semester that illustrates its meaningfulness?

Young people were becoming more anxious long before social media – here’s the evidence Here’s why I disagree with Jonathan Haidt. Young people have been on a trajectory of worse mental health since before the advent of social media.

Informative piece on anxiety amongst young people, and why a long, sociologically-informed time perspective is important

theconversation.com/young-people...

Stumbling Blocks and Alternative Paths: Reconsidering the Walkthrough Method for Analyzing Apps - Stefanie Duguay, Hannah Gold-Apel, 2023 The walkthrough method was developed as a way to trace an app or platform’s technological mechanisms and cultural references to understand how it guides users. ...

Thanks for teaching our work! If your students are having difficulty applying the method to algorithmic and AI-driven apps, this piece updates it and offers alternative approaches journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Connective (t)Issues Join us to reflect, critique, and imagine the manifold ways that digital, physical, and social infrastructures are built, broken, reconstructed, and mythologized.

"This wrkshp will convene scholars, practitioners, artists, + activists to reflect, critique, + imagine the manifold ways that digital, physical, + social infrastructures are built, broken, reconstructed, + mythologized..l We invite participants to craft a short 📢, 👀, or ✍️ narrative..."

I think you’re right about this, esp destigmatization. But the tech/industry and government/policy levels need to come into play - why is it so easy to create these images and to do so without repercussions? That’s a question no amount of sex ed or parental digital literacy can address.

An orange cat with a dashing darker orange stripe by his eye is sleeping curled in a half moon on top of a blue-jeaned leg and a blanket with a blue and white swirl pattern.

No sign of Sunday scaries yet.

Identity Modulation on TikTok: The Case of a Lesbian Cowboy | Canadian Journal of Communication Background:  LGBTQ+ people have long used digital media for self-representation but platforms present specific affordances and constraints for sexual identity expression. Analysis:  This article applies the identity modulation framework to TikTok and the account of a user whose representation of lesbian identity is prominent. Conclusions and implications:  While TikTok allows users to control their personal identifiability, it incentivizes them toward a far reach. The platform’s algorithm favours posts with a high salience of sexual identity, though only within the bounds of TikTok’s vague policies on acceptable self-expression. This case study illustrates how one user navigates these platform dynamics.

So because this didn't see much traffic on the other place, maybe your reading list could use an article about the endearing TikToker Cowboyjen... cjc.utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

Done. Archive downloaded, account deactivated ✅

I was relieved to find @catworkers.bsky.social on this app.

Now, can I slowly abandon X/Twitter or is this a 'time is of the essence' sort of thing as it keeps getting worse in terms of privacy and security?

Well, after trying to make LinkedIn a thing, this seems much easier. Welcome (back? home?) everyone...