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Dr Yen Wong's Outputs (17)

Equality DanceSport doing transgender inclusivity in the United Kingdom: Cultural cisgenderism and transgender experiences (2024)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N. (online). Equality DanceSport doing transgender inclusivity in the United Kingdom: Cultural cisgenderism and transgender experiences. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902241259342

In this article, cultural cisgenderism is adopted to investigate Equality DanceSport, a sporting context emerging out of an LGBT+ community.1 The study questions the extent to which Equality DanceSport enforces regulations and practices which promote... Read More about Equality DanceSport doing transgender inclusivity in the United Kingdom: Cultural cisgenderism and transgender experiences.

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. (online). 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/10.1177/14614448241232589

‘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/10.1177/20539517231184892

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. (2024). LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence. Current Sociology, 72(5), 946-966. 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.

Exploring Placement Opportunities For Postgraduate and Early Career Social Science Researchers (2021)
Report
Wong, Y. N., & Wunderly, C. (2021). Exploring Placement Opportunities For Postgraduate and Early Career Social Science Researchers. ESRC IAA

Current placement opportunities for postgraduate social science researchers are limited, despite it being one of the few platforms for social science researchers to connect with businesses. The purpose of this report is to examine how universities ca... Read More about Exploring Placement Opportunities For Postgraduate and Early Career Social Science Researchers.

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), 397-413. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41978-021-00087-2

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.

Same-sex pairings on Strictly Come Dancing: LGBTQ+ identity and leisure participation in ballroom dancing (2020)
Book Chapter
Harman, V., & Wong, Y. N. (2020). Same-sex pairings on Strictly Come Dancing: LGBTQ+ identity and leisure participation in ballroom dancing. In S. Kono, A. Beniwal, P. Baweja, & K. Spracklen (Eds.), Positive sociology of leisure: Contemporary perspectives (159-173). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41812-0_10

Ballroom Dancing is a leisure pursuit that is currently enjoying a resurgence stimulated by TV shows including ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and ‘Dancing with the Stars’. Watching such TV shows can be a leisure activity in itself as well as encouraging vie... Read More about Same-sex pairings on Strictly Come Dancing: LGBTQ+ identity and leisure participation in ballroom dancing.

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.

Book Review: Youth Working with Girls and Women in Community Settings: A Feminist Perspective by Janet Batsleer (2013)
Digital Artefact
Wong, Y. N. Book Review: Youth Working with Girls and Women in Community Settings: A Feminist Perspective by Janet Batsleer. [Blog]

Youth work with girls has taken inspiration from feminist theory and the women’s movement, with community based projects seeking to challenge oppression and encourage confidence and inclusivity. Drawing together historical, theoretical, and practice-... Read More about Book Review: Youth Working with Girls and Women in Community Settings: A Feminist Perspective by Janet Batsleer.

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.

The liminal space: Coping with the mind/body gap as a trans* equality Dancesport dancer
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.