The Horizon 2020 project EUMEPLAT – European Media Platforms: assessing positive and negative externalities for European Culture is launching a call for papers for the Gendered Cultures in Platform Economies: Entertainment, Expertise and Online Selfhood conference to be held in Lisbon on November 20th and 21st, 2023.

The conference, hosted by ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, will explore gender in the context of expert entertainment cultures in platform economics.

The Organising Committee is looking for 250-word abstracts in the following themes:

• Optimizing gender and sexuality
• Optimizing womanhood and motherhood
• Life coaches, self-help gurus and self-curating
• Manosphere, pick up artists and new masculinities
• Prank videos and sexism
• Queer identities between entrepreneurialism and empowerment
• ‘How-to-Succeed’ guides and cultures
• Growing plants and pets
• The performance of gender in animal videos (cuteness/ strength)
• Confidence culture and the psy-industries
• Feel-good economy, therapeutic cultures and neo-spiritualism
• The gendered self as a project and work of art
• Fitness, beauty and the body
• Discipline and self-restraint
• Amateur and professional labour
• Individualized gendered practices Vs. collective mobilization

The deadline to submit abstracts at conference@eumeplat.eu is June 9th, 2023.

More information on the conference and the call for papers are available here.