Conditioned participation: Technology, context and user-manoeuvrability

Valtýsson, Bjarki

doi:10.1386/macp.10.3.337_3

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“…Specifically, studies have looked at its impact on politics (Valtysson, 2014), body image (Pila, Mond, Griffiths, Mitchison, & Murray, 2017) sports (Antunovic & Linden, 2015), identity formation (Kavakci & Kraeplin, 2017), and feminism (Feltman & Szymanski, 2017), among others.…”

Section: Instagram and Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Instagram has quickly become a staple in the daily lives of social media users and many researchers have sought to understand the overall impact on various facets of society. Specifically, studies have looked at its impact on politics (Valtysson, 2014), body image (Pila, Mond, Griffiths, Mitchison, & Murray, 2017) sports (Antunovic & Linden, 2015), identity formation (Kavakci & Kraeplin, 2017), and feminism (Feltman & Szymanski, 2017), among others. Collectively, these studies demonstrate not only the pervasive nature of Instagram but also its influence on society.…”

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Dibs on that Sexy Piece of Ass: Hegemonic Masculinity on TFM Girls Instagram Account

Rodriguez

Hernandez

2018

Social Media + Society

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The study examines how the TFM Girls Instagram account, along with its followers, shapes and maintains dominant discourses of masculinity. Mixed-method analyses revealed that women were depicted more in bikinis, posed in overtly sexually suggestive poses, excluded the women's eyes and faces, and included predominately White, fit, big-breasted women. There was a positive correlation between the number of likes/comments with breast size. There were also instances of misogyny and objectification manifested in the men's comments attached to the photographs. The results highlight Instagram as a digital extension of fraternal social spaces. TFM Girls reinforces hegemonic masculinity on a macro-level by allowing virtual linkages among fraternity members across the United States and by fostering a national online frat house ripe with misogyny and objectification.

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Section: Instagram and Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Dibs on that Sexy Piece of Ass: Hegemonic Masculinity on TFM Girls Instagram Account

Rodriguez

Hernandez

2018

Social Media + Society

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“…When the interfaces of Rijksstudio and VanGoYourself are further examined, it becomes evident that they condition the participative potentials of users at the same time as they facilitate certain forms of communication. It is therefore useful to be attentive to what kind of usermanoeuvrability a given technology allows for, and more importantly, which context it grows from (Valtysson, 2014). The context in question is that of the museum as a charged space, which means that the objects that are being distributed and encouraged to be actively reproduced do carry different values than say an amateur home video of cats and dogs, because they are selected from authoritative cultural heritage institutions to serve ordinary people's creative, participatory purposes.…”

Section: Creative Digital Re-usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Certainly, there is no doubt that such processes of creative re-use are quite evident. However, even though technology can in these cases be said to allow for user-manoeuvrability (Valtysson, 2014) that encourages such creations, the context in question needs to be considered, as well as the economic structure in which these projects are encapsulated. In other words, it is not enough only to look at the isolated projects, or for that matter, the isolated museums, but also as Bourdieu (1993) claims, at the networks they constitute and the networks they are constituted by in a broader field of offline and online cultural production.…”

Section: Creative Digital Re-usementioning

confidence: 99%

The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication

Drotner¹,

Dziekan

Parry

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Museums today find themselves within a mediatised society, where everyday life is conducted in a data-full and technology-rich context. In fact, museums are themselves mediatised: they present a uniquely media-centred environment, in which communicative media is a constitutive property of their organisation and of the visitor experience. The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication explores what it means to take mediated communication as a key concept for museum studies and as a sensitising lens for media-related museum practice on the ground.Including contributions from experts around the world, this original and innovative Handbook shares a nuanced and precise understanding of media, media concepts and media terminology, rehearsing new locations for writing on museum media and giving voice to new subject alignments. As a whole, the volume breaks new ground by reframing mediated museum communication as a resource for an inclusive understanding of current museum developments.The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication will appeal to students and scholars, as well as to practitioners involved in the visioning, design and delivery of mediated communication in the museum. It teaches us not just how to study museums, but how to go about being a museum in today's world.

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“…Instead these media are entangled in complex sets of socio-economic, political, cultural and technological relations" (2014, p. 191). In the context of political participation, we argue that Valtysson (2014aValtysson ( , 2014b in particular has provided valuable (empirical) insights into how social network sites do not simply constitute neutral spaces for democratic deliberation but are actively shaping and conditioning the discursive possibilities aff orded to users. Valtysson's (2014a) fi ndings underline that the platform-specifi c structures of a given medium must be kept in mind when studying emergent forms of mediated participation.…”

Section: Political Participation and Social Network Sitesmentioning

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The Double Conditioning of Political Participation

2015

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The emergence of social network sites as a part of everyday life has given rise to a number of debates on the demo- cratic potential afforded by these technologies. This paper addresses political participation facilitated through Facebook from a practice-oriented perspective and presents a case study of the political grassroots organisation, Fight For The Future. Initially, the paper provides a basic theoretical framework that seeks to map the relation between civic practices, materiality, and discursive features. Using this framework, the article analyses Fight For The Future’s use of Facebook to facilitate political participation. The study finds that user participation on the Facebook page is ‘double conditioned’ by the material structure of the social network site on the one hand and by the discourses articulated by the organisation and users on the other. Finally, the paper discusses the findings and raises a number of problems and obstacles facing participatory grassroots organisations, such as Fight For The Future, when using Facebook.

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Conditioned participation: Technology, context and user-manoeuvrability

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Cited by 8 publications

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Dibs on that Sexy Piece of Ass: Hegemonic Masculinity on TFM Girls Instagram Account

Dibs on that Sexy Piece of Ass: Hegemonic Masculinity on TFM Girls Instagram Account

The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication

The Double Conditioning of Political Participation

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