Sander De Ridder
Sander De Ridder holds a master degree in Communication Sciences, with focus on visual culture, film- and television studies. From February 2010 on, he is a PhD-student and researcher at CIMS, Centre for Cinema and Media Studies at the Department of Communication Studies, Ghent University. Currently, he is working on a research project, funded by the Special Research Fund (BOF), Ghent University. The project aims to understand intimate storytelling as mediated practice in social networking sites, thereby specifically focusing on youth culture. The project departs from a democratic concern, inquiring how gender and sexuality are socially and culturally organized in current popular participatory media environments.
Media Studies, Cybercultures, Visual Culture, Media and Identity, Gender Studies, Youth Studies, Digital literacy
De Ridder, S (2012). Youth and mediated intimacy: An Observation into the Participations and Representations on the Social Networking Site Netlog. Working papers in film and television, in press.
De Ridder, S., Van Bauwel, S. (in press). Commenting on pictures: Teens negotiating gender and sexualities on social networking sites. Sexualities
De Ridder, S., Dhaenens, F. & Van Bauwel, S. (2011). Queer theory and change. Towards a pragmatic approach to resistance and subversion in media research on gay and lesbian identities. Observatorio, 5(2), 197-215.
Book reviews
De Ridder, S. Book review: Karen Ross (ed), The handbook of Gender, Sex and Media. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 608 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4443-3854-6, EUR162,00 hbk. Tijdschrijft voor Communicatiewetenschappen, Forthcoming.
De Ridder, S. Book review: Christopher Pullen and Margaret Cooper (eds), LGBT identity and Online New Media. New York: Routledge, 2010. xiv + 312 pp. ISBN 9780415998673, $39.95 pbk. New Media and Society, 14(2), 354-356.
Conference talks and paper presentations
Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), Crossroads, Paris.
Title: “Just be normal!” An audience research into the heteronormative borders of self-representation in social networking sites among teenagers.
The Mediation of Scandal and Moral Outrage (ECREA@LSE 2011 Media and Communications International Symposium), London
Title: Commenting the picture: Teenagers in online communities and textual discourses on bodies, sexuality and gender.
Transorming Audiences 3. Online & mobile media, everyday creativity and DIY culture, London.
Title: Youth connectivity and cybercultures Transgressing heteronormativity in social network sites.
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Cities, Connectivity and Creativity, Istanbul.
Title: Youth connectivity and cybercultures Transgressing heteronormativity in social network sites.
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Cities, Connectivity and Creativity, Istanbul.
Title: Queer theory and change. Towards a pragmatic approach of resistance and subversion in media research on gay and lesbian identities.
Dag van de sociologie, Ghent.
Title: Youth and cybercultures. Transgressing heteronormativity in the Flemish social network site Netlog.
Cultural Studies Association (CSA), Chicago.
Title: Online queer World making. Gender and sexual discourses revisited in social websites: Northern Belgiums Netlog case.
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Hamburg.
Title: Queer theory and change: Towards a pragmatic approach of resistance and subversion in media research.
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Communication and Citizenship, Braga.
Title: The online stage: heteronormative self-representation and popular online communication.
EYouth Conference, Antwerp.
Title: The online stage. Youth and heteronormativity, self-representation and identity construction.