Failed Intimacies with Prof. Jessica Ringrose // Postdigital Intimacies
Channel: Postdigital Intimacies
Date: 15/04/2021

Understanding online sexual harassment and image-based sexual abuse: Changing the conceptual frames around youth digital sexual cultures


Prof. Jessica Ringrose will be exploring findings from a qualitative study with 150 young people (aged 11-21), which investigated youth experiences of sharing digitally networked sexual images. The paper examines young people’s encounters with online image sharing practices (conventionally referred to as sexting) as materialising through a continuum of consensual and non-consensual practices.


Jessica Ringrose is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education at the UCL Institute of Education and co-director of the Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity. Her research focuses on youth digital intimacies and sexual cultures, and innovative feminist qualitative, participatory and impactful research methodologies. Recent books include Feminist Posthumanisms, New Materialisms and Education (Routledge, 2018) and Digital Feminist Activism (Oxford University Press, 2019), and is the 2020 Recipient of the Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award (USA), which recognizes her commitment to advocacy work. She founded the Feminist Educational Engagement Lab (FEEL) and co-coordinates PhEmaterialism.