{"id":37011,"date":"2011-07-31T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=37011"},"modified":"2013-11-10T23:52:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T04:52:39","slug":"what-are-people-looking-at-on-lisa-wade-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/07\/31\/what-are-people-looking-at-on-lisa-wade-com\/","title":{"rendered":"What are People Looking at on lisa-wade.com?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in February I went ahead and built myself a website highlighting, well, myself<\/a>. \u00a0And I will admit to, on occasion, indulging my curiosity regarding how often it’s visited and what visitors are looking at. \u00a0So yesterday I was browsing the site stats and noticed that there was data on how often each clickable thing was clicked on, including images, tabs, links, and documents I’d uploaded; stuff like that. \u00a0I thought, huh, well I wonder? \u00a0Are people checking out my classes? \u00a0Downloading my journal articles? Are they interested in my public speaking<\/a>!? \u00a0That’d be so cool!<\/p>\n

Lo and behold. \u00a0The most clicked upon clickable thing on my website is the Sociological Images tab. \u00a0Yay! \u00a0The second most clicked upon thing? \u00a0My photograph.<\/p>\n

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This is kind of fascinating. \u00a0What drives people not just to look at my photograph, but to want to look at it up close? \u00a0What kind of information are they trying to glean, not from the articles I’ve written or material I teach, but from the gleam in my eye? \u00a0Is it “human nature”<\/a> to want to see people you’re interacting with, even on the internet? \u00a0Is it the cultural imperative to have an opinion on what women look like? \u00a0Something else?<\/p>\n

And if I’m going to speculate as to the motivations of visitors, I should ask myself the obvious questions. \u00a0Why did I upload photographs of myself at all? \u00a0Four of them! \u00a0Why do I think that it’s important to be embodied on, let’s face it, a website with a great deal of highly abstracted content? \u00a0Do I think it looks “professional”? \u00a0Do I think photographs make me more relate-able? \u00a0Am I bowing to the cultural imperative that women present their bodies for judgment? \u00a0I don’t know!<\/p>\n

I didn’t think much of it at the time.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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