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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨

@aurelievpetit.bsky.social

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PhD candidate at Concordia University, trying to remain whimsical // working on anime, gender & technology // prev intern at Microsoft Research, Uottawa, UQAM 🤖💋 // she/her // 📍MTL 🇨🇦 https://www.aurelie-petit.com

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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · Jun 1

💬 What does it mean to take a category of pornographic content, refuse to define it, and then apply incredibly hard rules over its regulation? That’s the question I tackle in my 🔥latest🔥 article on animated porn representing children and produced with digital tech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The limits of ‘zero tolerance’ policies for animated pornographic media

This article examines how policies over animation on pornographic platforms fail to take into consideration its nature as manufactured media, a genre category that now encompasses cartoons and arti...

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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 19m

Thank you!!!!

Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 19m

@scarlet-rhapsody.com !!!

Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 32m

Now I’m gonna apply for Mechademia Singapore and then I’ll set my computer on fire 😍

Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 34m

Thank you!!! I’m very excited for people outside of me and my supervisor to read it 🤣

Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 45m

This is how it feels to be done with my thesis

a cartoon chicken is pole dancing on a white background .

ALT: a cartoon chicken is pole dancing on a white background .

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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 49m

Thank you!!!!

Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 49m

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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 1h

@sam-animeherald.bsky.social !!

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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 1h

Thesis official: @colleensmangarecs.bsky.social, @animefeminist.com and @shoujosundae.com 🎀‼️

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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 3h

against marginalized communities in what I am calling negative networking practices. I argue that this is these very early networking dynamics of online anime fandom that shaped the ethos of 4chan, and of the alternative web as we know it."

Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 3h

of the American online fandom from the 1990s to early 2000s. There, online anime fandom relied on USENET newsgroups (rec.arts.anime and rec.arts.anime.misc) and was an inherently political space where topics related to gender, race, and sexuality were frequently discussed and instrumentalized ...

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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 3h

This relationship between 4chan and 2channel would then explain the former’s users’ long-standing inkling for anime. However, this story feels incomplete. In this thesis, I propose to understand anime’s current entanglement with the alternative web by going back to earlier social networks ...

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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 3h

blamed for initiating toxic hate culture, from the anti-feminist movement #GamerGate and related incel politics, to “meme-ing” Donald Trump into the White House. First started as an anime-related forum in 2003, its creator Christopher “moot” Poole took inspiration from Japanese forum 2channel. ...

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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 3h

in the rise of “anime avatars” (vitriolic users sporting anime-related profile pictures) on social media, and even in the use of anime in digital communications by right-wing politicians around the world. This association is typically traced to popular forum 4chan, the infamous American board ...

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Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 3h

My thesis abstract 🔥 "Over the last ten years, Japanese animation series–or anime–fans have often been associated with digital right-wing communities of the alternative web. This is better observed in anime been called an aesthetic of the “alt-right” by its most powerful actors ...

Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 6h

Finished.