Gender and Digital Media

Hakan Ergül is an Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. He has extensive teaching and research experience in media ethnography, audience studies, media sociology, cultural studies, digital media theory, gender studies, and qualitative methods.

• Editorial Introduction 1. Digital Media and Gender: Key concepts PART I: BECOMING Gendered Selves, Desire, and the Digital Everyday 2. Gender and Identity in the Postmodern, Posthuman and Postdigital Era 3. Queer and Transgender Studies of Digital Media 4. Dating and Romance Online: Reimagining intimacy, transforming the self, and negotiating risk 5. Fandom and Digital Media: A sandbox for creative gender, sexuality, and feminist configurations PART II: SEEING Representation, Race, and the Politics of the Gaze 6. How We Are Seen: Why representation still matters 7. Ten Things I Hate About Genres: Gender and genre in the post-digital era 8. Understanding the Historical Foundations of Race, Beauty and Gendered Hatred OnlineKaren Wilkes PART III: RESISTING Belonging, activism, and masculinities online 9. Gender and Minoritised Childhoods in the Digital Era 10. The Manosphere Between the Global and the Local 11. Gender and Belonging in Digital Diasporic Spaces Part IV: INTERVENING: Games, gendered technologies and feminist futures 12. Researching Digital Games, Players, and Gender 13. Haptic Histories, Virtual Traces: Excavating gender-diverse XR innovation