Jamie Hakim

Work That Body (eBook, PDF)

Male Bodies in Digital Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture explores the recent rise in different types of men using digital media to sexualise their bodies. It argues that the male body has become a key site in contemporary culture where neoliberalism's hegemony has been both secured and contested since 2008. It does this by looking at four different case studies: the celebrity male nude leak; the rise of young men sharing images of their muscular bodies on social media; RuPaul's Drag Race body transformational tutorial, and the rise of chemsex. It finds that on the one hand digital media has enabled men to transform their bodies into tools of value-creation in economic contexts where the historical means they have relied on to create value have diminished. On the other it has also allowed them to use their bodies to form intimate collective bonds during a moment when competitive individualism continued to be the privileged mode of being in the world. It therefore offers a unique contribution not only to the field of digital cultural studies but also to the growing cultural studies literature attempting to map the historical contradictions of the austerity moment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881853983
• Artikelnr.: 74399200

Autorenporträt

Jamie Hakim is Lecturer at King's College London, UK. His research interests lie at the intersection of digital culture, intimacy, embodiment and care. His book Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture was published in 2019. He was principle investigator on the Digital Intimacies project. He's also co-investigator on the AHRC funded 'Public Health Messaging during the COVID Pandemic: Dating App Usage and Sexual Wellbeing among Men Who have Sex with Men'.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The Celebrity Male Nude Leak
4. The Spornosexual
5. RuPaul's Drag Race Body Transformation Tutorials
6. The Rise of Chemsex
7. Conclusion