The New Experts of Online Dating: Feminism, Advice, and Harm on Instagram

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI:10.1177/20563051251340514

Joanna Large, Natasha Mulvihill

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Abstract

Situated within the theoretical work of Giddens and others on the role of expertise in contemporary society, this article evaluates the Instagram accounts of six dating-themed influencers. We seek to understand the role and strategies of these “new experts” in presenting, evaluating, and responding to contemporary heterosexual dating harms. Our analysis is informed by the existing literature on digital feminism, gendered abuse, and conceptions of harm, but also recognizes how social media marketing strategies shapes the expertise provided. We conclude that while the emerging expert discourses around online dating seek ostensibly to advocate for women, they are contradictory, likely to contribute to social anxiety, and could risk diluting and individualizing the material reality of abuse.

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网上约会的新专家：Instagram上的女权主义、建议和危害

根据吉登斯和其他人关于专业知识在当代社会中的作用的理论工作，本文评估了六位以约会为主题的网红的Instagram账户。我们试图了解这些“新专家”在呈现、评估和回应当代异性恋约会危害方面的角色和策略。我们的分析是基于现有的关于数字女权主义、性别虐待和伤害概念的文献，但也认识到社交媒体营销策略如何影响所提供的专业知识。我们得出的结论是，尽管围绕在线约会的新兴专家话语表面上是在为女性辩护，但它们是相互矛盾的，可能会导致社交焦虑，并有可能稀释和个性化虐待的物质现实。

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来源期刊

Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.