Gender, Sexuality and Young People’s Social Media Practices – Burcu Korkmazer
In this brown bag seminar, Burcu Korkmazer will present her research on gender, sexuality, and young people’s social media practices.
Burcu is a doctoral scholar at the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies at Ghent University. Her research focuses on how social media such as Instagram and Snapchat are affecting the discourses, media practices and identity politics of young people. Powerful identity axes such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality and religiosity are discussed and studied in relation to sensitive topics as sexual morality, diversity and gendered visibility within digital youth cultures.
This brown bag seminar will take place on Zoom. You can register by sending an email to Nika.Looman@UGent.be.
This seminar is open to all, PhD students, postdocs, senior researchers, and other interested individuals.