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Indeed, perhaps the most significant force of lifestyle media is the way it systematically refigures individuals as self-governing subjects, “as the agents of their destinies, who achieve goals of health, happiness, productivity, security and wellbeing through their individual choices and self-care practices.”49 Working on one’s own self-confidence

Authenticity is a key aspect of DIY/amateur porn being read as intimate and representing ordinary people. On this basis, it can be argued that ‘perceived realism’ – to re-signify this term – is necessary to incite particular kinds of affect and erotic pleasure for young people.

Yet a fangirl still exists in contradiction to the dominant culture. She’s not considered normal or sane; her refusal to accept things the way they are is one of her defining characteristics. She is dropping out of the mainstream even while she embraces a thing that is as mainstream as a thing can get. Publicly, the fangirl wastes money and refuses

The premise underpinning this ideal is that women suffer from an internal “defect,” namely a “confidence gap,” which holds them back in the world of work. Fixing this (supposed) internal barrier in women is constructed as key to their self-transformation and empowerment and to tackling gender inequality in the workplace more broadly.

base for critiquing many of the policies of Web 2.0 companies that seek to capitalize on free labor or commodify the gifts fans share.

congeals the potential for enlarging intimacy's scope—to intergenerational sex most definitely, but also to taking seriously the actual as opposed to imagined sexual lives of children and adolescents.