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dc.contributor.authorAbidin, Crystal
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-21T04:13:24Z
dc.date.available2020-05-21T04:13:24Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationAbidin, C. 2016. Happy #monthsary babe!: Vernacular readings and practices of monthsaries among young couplings on social media. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. 9 (6): pp. 56-73.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79373
dc.identifier.doi10.31165/nk.2016.96.483
dc.description.abstract

Romantic monthsaries, or monthly commemorations of the date on which a couple first got together, are increasingly practiced by young couples and archived on social media. As a form of visually oriented practice, monthsaries are fraught with vernacular readings, perceptions, and practices. This paper investigates the practice of monthsaries among ‘young couplings’, which I define as the experiences of young people’s partnering practices in their teenage years and/or their initial experience of early partnering regardless of the age of first coupling, in which young couples do not yet have any formal status, are unable to experience domestic living together, and have limited opportunities to be alone and intimate. In the absence of any scholarly precedence and adopting a Grounded Theory approach, this paper is an exploratory study that approaches monthsaries through internet folk knowledge, forum threads and visual displays of monthsaries on Instagram.

dc.titleHappy #monthsary babe!: Vernacular readings and practices of monthsaries among young couplings on social media.
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.titleNetworking Knowledge
dc.date.updated2020-05-21T04:13:24Z
curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
curtin.accessStatusOpen access via publisher
curtin.facultyFaculty of Humanities


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