Jessie Hunt
I am an Honours candidate at the University of Wollongong in NSW. My research focuses on girlhood and growing up female in contemporary media-saturated societies. I am interested in the disconnect between girls’ own accounts of their lives, as given in forums, blogs or other kinds of self-publishing networks, and the ways in which mass media and popular culture construct and represent the feminine adolescent experience. I use narrative analysis, interaction analysis and other kinds of qualitative methods to unpack, explore and understand the nuances of both girls’ communications with each other, and social constructions of girlhood in mass media.
I was recently awarded third prize at the Musiciological Society of Australia's Annual Student Symposium for my project, 'Just a Fangirl: Gender, Identity and Community in Katy Perry Fan Forums'.
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Whelan
I was recently awarded third prize at the Musiciological Society of Australia's Annual Student Symposium for my project, 'Just a Fangirl: Gender, Identity and Community in Katy Perry Fan Forums'.
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Whelan
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The Katy Perry Forum is a sororarchal space: it is a space dominated by girls and women. As an online space, the forum must be talked into being: the forum exists only through interactional work done by its members. As such, the Katy Perry forum is a space in which feminine-identifying people establish and maintain governance through talk-in-interaction—in spite of the ways in which heteropatriarchy is often constructed in interactions. On the forum, talk is practice; how, then, do the members of the forum ‘pull off’ sororarchy? How are heteropatriarchal disruptions and challenges managed? And how are these complex power relations constructed through talk? By utilizing narrative analysis, membership category analysis, and ethnomethodology, I hope to render the interactional practices of young women around popular music more visible.
The Katy Perry Forum is a sororarchal space: it is a space dominated by girls and women. As an online space, the forum must be talked into being: the forum exists only through interactional work done by its members. As such, the Katy Perry forum is a space in which feminine-identifying people establish and maintain governance through talk-in-interaction—in spite of the ways in which heteropatriarchy is often constructed in interactions. On the forum, talk is practice; how, then, do the members of the forum ‘pull off’ sororarchy? How are heteropatriarchal disruptions and challenges managed? And how are these complex power relations constructed through talk? By utilizing narrative analysis, membership category analysis, and ethnomethodology, I hope to render the interactional practices of young women around popular music more visible.