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  • Visibility and Vulnerability on Instagram: Negotiating Safety in Women's Online-Offline Fitness Spaces

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    Author(s)
    Toffoletti, Kim
    Thorpe, Holly
    Pavlidis, Adele
    Olive, Rebecca
    Moran, Claire
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Pavlidis, Adele
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    This article investigates how safety is experienced, navigated and cultivated by women on Instagram. Using qualitative interview data, we explore women’s understanding and practices of keeping themselves and others safe when sharing information-rich images about their exercising bodies and fitness activities. Drawing on literatures from feminist leisure, sport and media studies, this article advances discussions about exercising women’s negotiations of risk and safety by considering digitally-mediated fitness experiences and the uses of “visibility and vulnerability” for creating cultures and communities of physical and ...
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    This article investigates how safety is experienced, navigated and cultivated by women on Instagram. Using qualitative interview data, we explore women’s understanding and practices of keeping themselves and others safe when sharing information-rich images about their exercising bodies and fitness activities. Drawing on literatures from feminist leisure, sport and media studies, this article advances discussions about exercising women’s negotiations of risk and safety by considering digitally-mediated fitness experiences and the uses of “visibility and vulnerability” for creating cultures and communities of physical and emotional safety online and offline. Findings identify that knowledge of Instagram’s platform affordances and audiences, along with personal ethics, contribute to exercising women’s decision-making when posting self-produced physical activity content. We extend current thinking about the operations of visibility and vulnerability for women online by identifying the significance of spatial and relational elements to generating women’s feelings of safety on Instagram.
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    Journal Title
    Leisure Sciences
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2021.1884628
    Copyright Statement
    This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Leisure Sciences, 11 Feb 2021, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2021.1884628
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    This publication has been entered in Griffith Research Online as an advanced online version.
    Subject
    Commercial Services
    Tourism
    Social Sciences
    Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
    Sociology
    Social Sciences - Other Topics
    Safety
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/402849
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