Abstract
This study explores how the power of man gaze influences on web-photo-album which bases on observations of relationship between man/viewer/gazing and woman/performer/gazed. We interviewed ten heavy users of web-photo-album and tried to understand why they like to watch sharing photos on the web, what they like, and how they think about the mastery of web-photo-albums.
The results indicate that the myth of beauty and gaze power dominate the communication culture on the web-photo-albums. On the one hand, male viewers occupy the subjective gaze-positions and enjoy the pleasures of power following the gaze of girls’ bodies. On the other hand, female viewers identify themselves as the objective gazed-positions and are anxious about threatening of gaze power.
The results indicate that the myth of beauty and gaze power dominate the communication culture on the web-photo-albums. On the one hand, male viewers occupy the subjective gaze-positions and enjoy the pleasures of power following the gaze of girls’ bodies. On the other hand, female viewers identify themselves as the objective gazed-positions and are anxious about threatening of gaze power.
| Translated title of the contribution | The Curse of Beauty: Power of Man Gaze on Web-Photo-Album |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 249-274 |
| Journal | 資訊社會研究 |
| Issue number | 15 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- Gaze
- Spectacle
- Web-photo-album
- Gender Culture
- Beauty Myth