Mediating Masculinities

The Gender and Sexualities Research Forum at City collaborated with the Feminist Media Studies Research Group at UEA to put on an awesome event on April 27th concerned with how masculinities are mediated in contemporary culture. With  the focus on sex and intimacy, research presentations focussed on men’s uses of Grindr,  Snapchat streaking, and the seduction community-industry, as well as focussing on the new phenomenon of the male celebrity nude leak, celebrity fatherhood and ‘digital patriarchs’ and their self-presentations. In a stimulating and packed programme there were 7 separate presentations, and around 60 people attended and participated in the debates.