Brittany Melton

PhD Student

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Brittany Melton

PhD Student

Brittany is a PhD candidate at Western University studying online communities and gender performance.

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Research Interests

platform affordances/ Reddit

gender performance/ feminist theory

online communities/ counterpublics

Around the web:

  • “Start your Story” Profile

    MMJC student Kate Peterson recently created a profile of me for “Start Your Story”: “When Brittany Melton isn’t listening to K-Pop or reading Sarah J. Maas’s fantasy literature, she’s peeking into darker corners of the internet, often on Reddit, and studying the culture of femcels. Brittany defines femcels as women who identify as involuntarily celibate.…