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Cultivating healthy relationships - Re-imagining digital sexualities research and practice through speculative fabrication and thinking-with fungi

培养健康的关系——通过真菌的推测性制造和思考重新想象数字性研究和实践

基本信息

批准号：
ES/W00643X/1
负责人：
Kate Marston
金额：
$ 12.68万
依托单位：
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW00643X%2F1
关键词：
Cultivating healthy relationships Re imagining

项目摘要

My PhD explored how social media, smart devices and gaming platforms shape young people's sexual cultures. By harnessing arts-based methods to unlock a range of embodied, material, spatial and affective experiences, I developed an innovative methodological approach to engaging with young people's digital practices. Drawing on feminist posthuman and new materialist theories my thesis illustrated the enduring force of heteronormativity as well as illuminated how sexuality is reconfigured online. Findings demonstrated how: (a) Young people's digital relationships continue to be oriented by the active male/passive female sexuality binary with unsolicited 'dick pics' considered an unremarkable feature of everyday life for girls (b) Publicising romantic relationships online reproduced and unsettled heteronormative fantasies of monogamy, marriage and domesticity by highlighting their inherent precarity(c) Non-human social media content (e.g food, pets, slime) displaced the disciplinary gaze from the female body and evoked different bodily imaginaries for participants(d) Social media facilitated participants' engagement with environmental activism in ways that momentarily disrupted the gendered bodily regulation they strongly felt elsewhereMy fellowship will communicate and build upon findings from my PhD by engaging academics, policy-makers and practitioners as well as young people. My first aim is to establish a strong publication track record to ensure maximum impact on the field. Secondly, I will hold stakeholder workshops with policy-makers and practitioners to disseminate substantive findings and test how my innovative methodological techniques could be applied in RSE practice. Finally, I will work in partnership with the National Museum Wales (NMW) to further develop my innovative methodological techniques for examining digital sexual cultures, by exploring how botany collections urge us to re-think the relationship between digital technologies, young people and nature. The FIF? workshops will be co-developed with NMW and trialed with their Youth Forum: informing funding applications for future research examining how botany collections can be harnessed as stimuli for RSE.Popular fears around 'nature deficit disorder' in a digital age highlight how networked communication has been oppositionally positioned as a threat to our relationship with nature (Louv 2008). However, my study found that digital technologies played a role in supporting young people to connect with, learn about and advocate for nature in ways that reconfigured the gendered and sexual meaning of their bodies. By responding to illustrative case studies from my PhD and the fungi collections at NMW through a creative method of their choice (e.g cut-up speculative fiction, digital storytelling, photography, printwork), young people will explore how nature can be a site where the cultural imaginary around digital technologies, sexuality and gender is debated, elaborated and re-envisioned. Fungi have been described as the earth's natural internet due to their capacity for networked communication through underground hyphae networks (Tsing 2015). This capacity is already being harnessed to create fungal computers (Fungar 2020). While botanical science has historically been infused with and impeded by heteronormative interpretations, scholars are developing queer methodologies for attending to the non-binary, subversive and maligned facets of fungi and other organisms (Kaishian and Djoulakian 2020; Griffiths 2015). Thinking-with fungi offers a novel way of exploring sensitive RSE issues without focusing on individual experiences (Fisher, Grove and Langlands 2017). The FIF? workshops will consider: 1. How can thinking-with fungi open up creative and critical spaces for examining dominant gender and sexual norms?2. How can conceptual resources borrowed from nature (e.g rhizome) in science and technology studies be explored materially through botany

我的博士研究了社交媒体、智能设备和游戏平台如何塑造年轻人的性文化。通过利用基于艺术的方法来解锁一系列有形的、物质的、空间的和情感的体验，我开发了一种创新的方法来参与年轻人的数字实践。借鉴女权主义、死后理论和新唯物主义理论，我的论文说明了异性关系的持久力量，并说明了在线性行为是如何重新配置的。调查结果表明：(A)年轻人的数字关系继续受到主动的男性/被动的女性性行为的二元导向，主动提出的‘迪克图片’被认为是女孩日常生活中的一个平淡无奇的特征(B)通过强调其固有的先入性，在网上宣传在线复制的和未解决的关于一夫一妻制、婚姻和家庭生活的异性幻想(C)非人类社交媒体内容(例如食物、宠物、(D)社交媒体促进了参与者对环境行动主义的参与，暂时扰乱了他们在其他地方强烈感受到的性别身体监管，在那里，我的研究员将通过与学者、政策制定者、从业者以及年轻人交流和建立我的博士学位的成果，来促进参与者参与环境行动。我的第一个目标是建立一个强有力的出版记录，以确保在实地产生最大的影响。其次，我将与政策制定者和实践者一起举办利益相关者研讨会，以传播实质性的发现，并测试我的创新方法技术如何应用于RSE实践。最后，我将与威尔士国家博物馆(NMW)合作，通过探索植物学收藏品如何促使我们重新思考数字技术、年轻人和自然之间的关系，进一步发展我研究数字性文化的创新方法技术。FIF吗？研讨会将与NMW共同开发，并与他们的青年论坛进行试验：为未来研究提供资金申请，研究如何利用植物学收藏作为RSE的刺激因素。在数字时代，人们对“自然缺乏症”的普遍担忧突显了网络通信如何被对立地定位为对我们与自然的关系的威胁(Louv 2008)。然而，我的研究发现，数字技术在支持年轻人与自然联系、了解自然和倡导自然方面发挥了作用，重新配置了他们身体的性别意义和性意义。通过对我的博士和NMW真菌收藏的说明性案例研究的回应，年轻人将通过他们选择的创造性方法(例如，切碎的投机小说、数字故事讲述、摄影、印刷作品)来探索自然如何成为一个围绕数字技术、性和性别的文化想象被辩论、阐述和重新想象的地方。真菌被描述为地球的自然互联网，因为它们通过地下菌丝网络进行网络通信的能力(青岛市，2015年)。这种能力已经被利用来制造真菌计算机(Fungar2020)。虽然植物学在历史上一直受到异质解释的灌输和阻碍，但学者们正在开发奇怪的方法来研究真菌和其他有机体的非二元、颠覆性和被诋毁的方面(Kaishian和Djoulakian，2020；Griffiths，2015)。与真菌一起思考提供了一种新的方式来探索敏感的RSE问题，而不关注个人经历(Fisher，Grove和Langland 2017)。FIF吗？研讨会将考虑：1.用真菌思考如何打开创造性和批判性的空间，以审视主导性别和性规范？2.如何通过植物学来物质地探索科学技术研究中借用自然(例如根茎)的概念资源