A Gendered Pandemic: Editors’ Introduction

Casey, Emma; Childs, Sarah; Huq, Rupa

doi:10.1080/14797585.2022.2041317

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“…Nevertheless, this themed issue joins several others -most media studies and cultural studies journals have over the last several years run special issues attempting the slippery task of interpreting, coming to terms with, and conjuring a 'response' to COVID that would be adequate to the moment (see, for example, Athique, 2020;Casey et al, 2022;Davis et al, 2022;Erni and Striphas, 2021;Frosh and Georgiou, 2022;Gruzd et al, 2021;Hesse and Thompson, 2022;Hight, 2021;Leszczynski and Zook, 2020;Levina, 2022;Newell, 2021;Russell and Powers, 2020). Collectively, these studies have produced a compelling account of the tumult of the past several years, as well as providing fascinating 'symptomatic' accounts of the unsettled temporality of the pandemic itself.…”

Section: Crises Of Circulationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview

Andrejevic,

O’Neill

2024

New Media & Society

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The pandemic response was a thoroughly mediated phenomenon – one that paired digital information technologies with automated logistical systems to address inter-related crises of circulation. In the logistical sphere, automated media were used to manage flows of people, commodities and even (in the case of ‘smart’ ventilation systems) air itself. In the media realm, automated systems played a role in circulating timely notifications and alerts and in detecting and responding to false information. This theme issue brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers focused on the analysis of automated control and response systems, including the networked devices and infrastructures that supported them, and the digital forms of data collection and processing they enabled. This introductory essay focuses on some organizing themes that emerge from the theme issue contributions, including the relationship between automation and the temporality of viral contagion, logics of pre-emptive intervention and forms of atmospheric and environmental control.

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Section: Crises Of Circulationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview

Andrejevic,

O’Neill

2024

New Media & Society

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“…Specifically, the reduction of financial stability and job security, obstacles to entry and progression, as well as ongoing forms of discrimination have fallen disproportionately on the shoulders of Black, Asian and ethnically diverse cultural workers (Ali et al, 2022). A range of interdisciplinary research has likewise illuminated the stark and growing gendered inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic (Casey et al, 2022; Chung et al, 2021; Foley and Cooper, 2021), and within the cultural sector (a sector which has historically and notoriously disadvantaged women and marginalised groups), the crisis has only exacerbated these inequities. The current and ongoing ‘cost of living crisis’ has further complexified and intensified these existing problems.…”

Section: Neoliberal Short-term Precarious Labour In the Cultural Indu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

What is ‘freelance feminism’?

Curran-Troop,

Gill,

Littler

2024

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article introduces the concept of ‘freelance feminism’: a term we use to highlight how a combination of casualised precarious labour and platformised entrepreneurialism constitute a key terrain through which contemporary feminist work is enacted. The article proposes that this term can be a way to understand new formations and constellations of activity which are being shaped in the intersections between precarity, feminism and entrepreneurialism. How, in what ways, and with what consequences are feminist activism and platformised entrepreneurialism becoming entwined? How are new forms of self-promotion, self-branding and precarity shaping feminist cultures? Are entrepreneurial projects more broadly taking on feminist forms and, if so, how can we understand their politics? To explore these issues, the article examines in turn (1) neoliberal, short-term, precarious labour in the cultural industries and its exacerbation during the pandemic, (2) contemporary entrepreneurial ‘platformisation’ and (3) the increased visibility of feminism in contemporary popular culture. It concludes by introducing the range of articles in the special issue.

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“…Allen et al, 2015; Jensen, 2018; Orgad and De Benedictis, 2015). While such ‘maternal publicity’ (Tyler, 2011) reigns, inequality related to pregnancy and maternity continues to mark maternal experiences in the United Kingdom (Casey et al, 2022; Menzel, 2022). Indeed, scholars have noted how racism is ‘at the root’ of many inequities in UK maternity care, resulting in significantly higher mortality rates for Black women and their babies (see Waters, 2022).…”

Section: Pandemic Maternity Inequality and Feminist Digital Activismmentioning

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#ButNotMaternity: Analysing Instagram posts of reproductive politics under pandemic crisis

Benedictis

Mendes

2023

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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In this article, we perform a thematic analysis of a sample of 70 #ButNotMaternity Instagram posts. #ButNotMaternity is a hashtag that emerged in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic whereby the public, healthcare workers and campaigners shared experiences and concerns about pandemic maternity care restrictions and their disproportionate disadvantages for pregnant women. In the article, we analyse four themes that emerged from our thematic analysis – Individual experiences, loneliness and overcoming adversity, Voicing anger and absurdity, Mobilising anger and calls to action and Coordinated activism. Thinking about #ButNotMaternity in the context of ‘freelance feminism’, our article has a twofold aim. First, we explore the concept of ‘freelance feminism’ through #ButNotMaternity, asking to what extent this campaign draws from freelance tactics. Second, we use the hashtag to illuminate maternity inequality and modes of resistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through our thematic analysis, we argue that while ‘freelance feminism’ might be becoming hegemonic as a dominant mode of organising feminist activism and resistance, inspired by Malik et al. (2020), we also showcase how creative campaigns are potential places where collective action, structural critique and resistance may emerge.

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A Gendered Pandemic: Editors’ Introduction

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Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview

Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview

What is ‘freelance feminism’?

#ButNotMaternity: Analysing Instagram posts of reproductive politics under pandemic crisis

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