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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.

The liminal space: Coping with the mind/body gap as a trans* equality Dancesport dancer (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wong, Y. N. (2023, June). The liminal space: Coping with the mind/body gap as a trans* equality Dancesport dancer. Paper presented at Talking Bodies 2023 Conference, Chester

Dance is unique to many art forms in that it is expressed in and through the human body. In competitive ballroom dancing (Dancesport), the dancing body becomes a symbolic embodiment of culturally patterned notions of genders, sexualities and moraliti... Read More about The liminal space: Coping with the mind/body gap as a trans* equality Dancesport dancer.