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The currency of images: risk, value and gendered power dynamics in young men’s accounts of sexting

Ravn, Signe, Coffey, Julia, Roberts, Steven·2021·Feminist Media Studies
DOI 10.1080/14680777.2019.1642229
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This paper examines contemporary gender relations among young people by taking young men’s experiences with and understandings of “sexting” as a case in point. Based on a focus group study with university undergraduate men in Melbourne, Australia, we analyse what is seen as having value and what is seen as constituting a risk when engaging in sexting, and how this is perceived as different for men and women. We demonstrate how value and risk are closely intertwined in the focus group discussions and how the body is central in the production and negotiation of both these dimensions. This is made particularly clear in the two ‘figures’ that participants described as embodying the perceived risks; “the creep” and “the slut”. This paper illustrates the w ays gendered bodies and sexual value are central to the ways ‘double standards’ operate in sexting and persist in contemporary gender relations.

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Authors
Ravn, S., Coffey, J., & Roberts, S.
Affiliations
  • The University of Melbourne (AU)
  • University of Newcastle Australia (AU)
  • Monash University (AU)
Corresponding author
Ravn, Signe
ORCID
Venue
Feminist Media Studies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2019-09-16
Volume
21
Issue
2
Pages
315-331
ISSN
  • 1468-0777 (ISSN-L)
  • 1471-5902
DOI
10.1080/14680777.2019.1642229
OpenAlex
W2974618622
Cited by
50
References
35
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 1
FWCI
9.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Feminist Media Studies (publishedVersion)
  • Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion)
  • NOVA (University of Newcastle Australia) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Monash University School of Social Sciences (2016)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Media, Gender, and Advertising
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
Keywords
sexting, young men, gender relations, sexual risk, gendered power dynamics, double standards, sexualized body, slut-shaming, creep, university students

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