CEU eTD Collection (2010); Umut, Melis: Masculinities Visualized: Chatroulette as a Homosocial Virtual Medium

CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
Author Umut, Melis
Title Masculinities Visualized: Chatroulette as a Homosocial Virtual Medium
Summary This thesis is an analysis of a certain type of masculinity; masculinity performed on Chatroulette, a virtual medium connecting random people for web-cam based conversations. The users contribute to the website in various ways. This study focuses on the specific Chatroulette user who turns the chat session into a performance of masturbation. Accentuating on the neo-onanist as I coin it and Chatroulette as a contemporary homosocial medium, the thesis attempts to reveal the ways of representing and validating masculinities generated by the medium in question.
Supervisor Loutfi, Anna
Department Gender Studies MA
Full texthttps://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/umut_melis.pdf

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