“I’m selling the dream really aren’t I?”: Sharing Fit Male Bodies on Social Networking Sites

Winch, Alison and Hakim, Jamie (2016) “I’m selling the dream really aren’t I?”: Sharing Fit Male Bodies on Social Networking Sites. In: Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical Perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 9781138955073

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Abstract

This chapter explores how young, white, middle class men have begun to labour in their leisure time through the production and circulation of images of their fit bodies on social networking sites (SNS). Drawing on neo-Foucauldian theorists and critics of post-Fordist labour we argue that labouring for a fit body participates in the entrepreneurial project of the self. In the precarious climates of neoliberal austerity, where we are encouraged to be creatives and entrepeneurs, SNS have become sites where new forms of masculinities are being displayed for the purposes of self-branding.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	digital cultures,masculinity,neoliberalism,body
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media
Related URLs:	https://www.routledge.com/Digitial-Leisu...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Mar 2016 09:45
Last Modified:	08 Mar 2024 00:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57915
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