Sonja Petrovic
@sonjapetrovicc.bsky.social
Lecturer / Researcher (Media & Comms)
The University of Melbourne
•digital cultures & identities
•feminist media practices
•anti-gender discourses
drsonjapetrovic.com
The University of Melbourne
•digital cultures & identities
•feminist media practices
•anti-gender discourses
drsonjapetrovic.com
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(Un)Girly girls: reimagining femininity on Japanese TikTok
The development of digital media forms allows young women to reclaim spaces to build communities, showcase different aspects of their identities, and critique societal expectations and norms. A sho...
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I’m so happy to see this article finally out in FMS 💜🌸💅🏻(Un)Girly girls: reimagining femininity on Japanese TikTok www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Sonja Petrovic
MAGPIE has made a little game!
It is called Playful Paths and it is playable from TODAY as part of the Being Human Humanities festival at the University of Melbourne. It will be running from the 14th of November to the 30th.
It is called Playful Paths and it is playable from TODAY as part of the Being Human Humanities festival at the University of Melbourne. It will be running from the 14th of November to the 30th.
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
MAGPIE has made a little game!
It is called Playful Paths and it is playable from TODAY as part of the Being Human Humanities festival at the University of Melbourne. It will be running from the 14th of November to the 30th.
It is called Playful Paths and it is playable from TODAY as part of the Being Human Humanities festival at the University of Melbourne. It will be running from the 14th of November to the 30th.
Reposted by Sonja Petrovic
we wanted to share a few recent + upcoming articles to keep an eye out for 👀💡
a thread of interesting new work in gender, media, and platform studies....
a thread of interesting new work in gender, media, and platform studies....
October 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
we wanted to share a few recent + upcoming articles to keep an eye out for 👀💡
a thread of interesting new work in gender, media, and platform studies....
a thread of interesting new work in gender, media, and platform studies....
I’m so happy to see this article finally out in FMS 💜🌸💅🏻(Un)Girly girls: reimagining femininity on Japanese TikTok www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(Un)Girly girls: reimagining femininity on Japanese TikTok
The development of digital media forms allows young women to reclaim spaces to build communities, showcase different aspects of their identities, and critique societal expectations and norms. A sho...
www.tandfonline.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I’m so happy to see this article finally out in FMS 💜🌸💅🏻(Un)Girly girls: reimagining femininity on Japanese TikTok www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Sonja Petrovic
✨🗣️ Here is the link to register for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium Second Edition 💕🌈🏳️⚧️🔥 a free and online event (May 19 to 22) with 20+ participants and three awesome keynotes ✨😎 Program below and at the link here 👉 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...
Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2025
A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures
events.humanitix.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
✨🗣️ Here is the link to register for the Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium Second Edition 💕🌈🏳️⚧️🔥 a free and online event (May 19 to 22) with 20+ participants and three awesome keynotes ✨😎 Program below and at the link here 👉 events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe...
Students Continue Blockade of Public Broadcaster Despite Police Intervention www.masina.rs/eng/students...
Students Continue Blockade of Public Broadcaster Despite Police Intervention - Mašina English
Students and citizens spent the last two nights blockading the public broadcaster, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), in downtown Belgrade. Since April 14, students had blockaded several broadcasting c...
www.masina.rs
April 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Students Continue Blockade of Public Broadcaster Despite Police Intervention www.masina.rs/eng/students...
Reposted by Sonja Petrovic
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
Reposted by Sonja Petrovic
I wrote for Pursuit about the biggest water cooler moment of the year so far, Adolescence, and its portrayal of the manosphere: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/wha...
What Adolescence gets right (and wrong) about the manosphere
The Netflix series Adolescence raises the important issue of online radicalisation and the manosphere – but there’s no easy solution, says a University of Melbourne expert.
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
April 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I wrote for Pursuit about the biggest water cooler moment of the year so far, Adolescence, and its portrayal of the manosphere: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/wha...
Reposted by Sonja Petrovic
✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀
📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at [email protected]✨
Share widely!
📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at [email protected]✨
Share widely!
February 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀
📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at [email protected]✨
Share widely!
📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at [email protected]✨
Share widely!
From Stacktivism to Platform Alternatives: A critical analysis of the state of the contemporary network culture by Prof Geert Lovink (I enjoyed bleak dystopian memes that speak volumes about the world today)
December 10, 2024 at 7:46 AM
From Stacktivism to Platform Alternatives: A critical analysis of the state of the contemporary network culture by Prof Geert Lovink (I enjoyed bleak dystopian memes that speak volumes about the world today)