CANCELED - Posting a perfect life: Being watched and feeling judged on social media

This event is unfortunately canceled.

RannKyn (Research Institute for Equality, Gender and Education) and the School of Education invite you to an open lecture with Dr. Rosalind Gill, Posting a perfect life: Being watched and feeling judged on social media on 10 May, in the School of Education, Stakkahlíð.

The Prime Minister of Iceland, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, gives the opening speech of the event.

In this talk Dr. Rosalind Gill will share findings from a new research project conducted 2020-2. Dr. Gill surveyed and interviewed a diverse group of more than 200 young people about their lives and experiences. Topics ranged from experiences of the pandemic to #BlackLivesMatter, from camera culture to body positivity, and offer a rich insight into young people’s lives on and offline.

In this lecture Dr. Gill will discuss the pervasive pressures many young women experience around posting on social media. Imperatives to post beautiful pictures also extended to appearing popular, interesting, successful and positive. Anxieties around posting pulsed through the interviews, and were experienced viscerally via racing hearts, sick feelings and inability to sleep. Dr. Gill analysed the young women‘s fears of ‘getting it wrong’ and and how to understand these experiences of intense and ubiquitous surveillance and judgment in their lives.

Bio:

Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London, and has written extensively about media, work, and intimacy. She is known for her work exploring the relationship between culture and subjectivity, developing ideas about the psychological turn in neoliberalism. Her books include Gender and the Media (Polity, 2007); Aesthetic Labour: Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism (Palgrave, 2017 with Ana Sofia Elias and Christina Scharff); and Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture (Polity, 2018, with Meg-John Barker and Laura Harvey). Her most recent book is The Confidence Cult(ure) (Duke University Press, with Shani Orgad).