Netnography

Down the (digital) rabbit hole: Mapping and decolonizing Safavid women’s imagery in digital museums

Abstract: In this article, I trace Safavid paintings depicting women’s imagery online and explore the possibility of digitally mapping Safavid (1501–1736) paintings featuring women on publicly accessible platforms. Along with the practice of online mapping that led me to digital museums, I investigated the descriptions presented on three digitized paintings on different platforms to address […]

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Roundtable: Affordances, Diversity, and Inclusion on Dating Apps – A Dialogue between Sociologists and Media Studies Researchers about ‘Hinge’

Abstract: This roundtable paper is part of the project ‘Digitized Love and Intimacy on Hinge.’ It aims to investigate how digital dating apps reconfigure cultural attitudes to love and intimacy and, conversely, how said attitudes influence digital dating practices. The conversation is informed by (n)ethnographic usage of the app. As algorithms and affordances of dating […]

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