What is it about?
This article looks at how Snapchat's disappearing media content shapes memories of sexual encounters in teen's relationship cultures, drawing on research in a British school.
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Why is it important?
The article tries to think about how memory and time are reshaped through the social media affordances of Snapchat and specifically how this impacts memories of sexual encounters and intimate relationships.
Perspectives
This chapter contributes to new work on 'mediate intimacies' and also uses affect theory to consider how time and memory and our attachments to memories shift in relation to social media use.
Professor Jessica Ringrose
University College London
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This page is a summary of: Snapchat memory and youth digital sexual cultures: mediated temporality, duration and affect, Journal of Gender Studies, February 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2017.1280384.
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