All Outputs (9)

How do we speak about algorithms and algorithmic media futures? Using vignettes and scenarios in a citizen council on data-driven media personalisation (2024)
Journal Article
Das, R., Wong, Y. N., Jones, R., & Jackson, P. J. (in press). How do we speak about algorithms and algorithmic media futures? Using vignettes and scenarios in a citizen council on data-driven media personalisation. New Media and Society, https://doi.org/1

‘New’ media and algorithmic rules underlying many emerging technologies present particular challenges in fieldwork, because the opacity of their design, and, sometimes, their real or perceived status as ‘not quite here yet’ – makes speaking about the... Read More about How do we speak about algorithms and algorithmic media futures? Using vignettes and scenarios in a citizen council on data-driven media personalisation.

LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing (2023)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N. (2024). LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing. Media, Culture and Society, 46(4), 816-833. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231219141

This paper proposes that LGBT+ mainstreaming on reality television programme Strictly Come Dancing creates space for audience demand for radical, authentic representations of same-sex desire and intimacy, both of which challenges normative representa... Read More about LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing.

Under the radar? Modern slavery and labour exploitation risks for the hotel industry (2023)
Journal Article
Bullock, K., Di Domenico, M., Miller, G., Shirgholami, Z., & Wong, Y. (2024). Under the radar? Modern slavery and labour exploitation risks for the hotel industry. Tourism Management, 102, Article 104857. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2023.104857

The UK's tourism and hospitality industries, having the highest concentration of migrant workers compared to other industries, face complex challenges in managing the risks of labour exploitation and modern slavery (MS); issues largely neglected in a... Read More about Under the radar? Modern slavery and labour exploitation risks for the hotel industry.

Conditional trust: Citizens’ council on data-driven media personalisation and public expectations of transparency and accountability (2023)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N., Jones, R., Das, R., & Jackson, P. (2023). Conditional trust: Citizens’ council on data-driven media personalisation and public expectations of transparency and accountability. Big Data and Society, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231

This article presents findings from a rigorous, three-wave series of qualitative research into public expectations of data-driven media technologies, conducted in England, United Kingdom. Through a range of carefully chosen scenarios and deliberation... Read More about Conditional trust: Citizens’ council on data-driven media personalisation and public expectations of transparency and accountability.

Gender and Sexuality Performances Among LGBT+ Equality Dancers: Photo-Elicitation as a Method of Inquiry (2023)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N. (2023). Gender and Sexuality Performances Among LGBT+ Equality Dancers: Photo-Elicitation as a Method of Inquiry. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231182015

In its classical form, ballroom dancing constitutes heterosexual dance couples enacting conservative forms of masculinity and femininity. A normative focus, both in scholarship and in practice, on the classical form in competitive ballroom dancing (a... Read More about Gender and Sexuality Performances Among LGBT+ Equality Dancers: Photo-Elicitation as a Method of Inquiry.

LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence (2023)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N. (in press). LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence. Current Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921231182182

This article examines the role of dance shoes in LGBT+ ballroom dancers’ identity formation and expression on the dancefloor. Applying Entwistle’s (2015) ‘situated bodily practice’ to an analysis of ethnographic field notes and 35 interviews, I highl... Read More about LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence.

Analysing Media Reactions to Male/Male Dance Partnerships On British Reality TV Shows: Inclusive Masculinity in Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing On Ice (2021)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N., Harman, V., & Owen, C. (2021). Analysing Media Reactions to Male/Male Dance Partnerships On British Reality TV Shows: Inclusive Masculinity in Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing On Ice. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 4(4),

Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing on Ice are primetime reality television shows that promote partner dancing as a form of leisure in the UK. Both shows have consistently represented partner dancing as a partnership between a man and a woman. However,... Read More about Analysing Media Reactions to Male/Male Dance Partnerships On British Reality TV Shows: Inclusive Masculinity in Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing On Ice.

Review Essay: On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa (2017)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N. (2017). Review Essay: On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa. Atlantis, 38(1), 262-264

The essay reviews Allison Goebal’s gendered analysis of women's 'right to the city' in post-apartheid South Africa and concludes that the work makes a crucial contribution to the scholarship in its injection of a 'politics of difference' and a gender... Read More about Review Essay: On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa.

World Development Report 2012: Gender equality and development (2012)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N. (2012). World Development Report 2012: Gender equality and development. Forum for Development Studies, 39(3), 435-444. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2012.722769

Since the 1970s, Gender in development has emerged as an issue of concern for development agencies, namely bilateral and multilateral non-government organizations (NGOs). Although initially slow in gaining momentum in the constitution of policies, co... Read More about World Development Report 2012: Gender equality and development.