Instagram and Gendered Surveillance: Ways of Seeing the Hashtag

Sebastian, Melinda

doi:10.24908/ss.v17i1/2.12938

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“…Other research explores gendered surveillance on Instagram. The hashtag serves as an affordance across platforms, and this work expands on the literature of the rhetorical functions of hashtags [6]. Other research on Instagram examines the Results show that people who were not initially concerned about privacy are the most worried about the location-aware scenario; conversely, people who were initially connected are less worried about the location-aware scenario and find the scenario interesting.…”

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The Characteristics of the Use of Instagram Among Adolescent Girls

Maryani

Hasbiansyah

Iskandar

et al. 2020

Int. J. Res. Granthaalayah

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Social media provides opportunities for users to express their thoughts and feelings through writing, pictures and videos. The rich features of this platform make Instagram the most preferred platform for adolescents, including teenagers in Indonesia. Various activities can be done through Instagram such as building friendships, seeking information and entertainment. The phenomenon of communicating online especially on Instagram can be observed through self-penetration theory that observes the closeness of relationships through communication intensity. Informants' preference for using Instagram gives them opportunities to build more intense relationships to meet their needs. The purpose of this study was to analyze the character of Instagram users on the activities of adolescent girls. This research was conducted using qualitative methods with a phenomenological approach. Data collection is done by in-depth interviews, observations and scientific references. The informants of this study were teenage girls in Bandung City and Regency who used Instagram for at least one year. The results showed that the activities of female teenage informants on Instagram were searching, stalking and posting. The meaning of Instagram for female teenage informants is a medium of self-expression that is displayed through text, images, videos, to socialize, to get entertainment from information provided by Instagram, is also a medium for expressing feelings. The awareness of young female informants in their activities on Instagram social media is already well related to the social implications resulting from the production and dissemination of messages on Instagram. So the informant planned in advance his message so as not to cause negative consequences that have legal consequences.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 62%

The Characteristics of the Use of Instagram Among Adolescent Girls

Maryani

Hasbiansyah

Iskandar

et al. 2020

Int. J. Res. Granthaalayah

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“…This is particularly true for social networking sites. While social media can provide more people with the opportunity to interact, it can also become an instrument of control (Campbell and Golan 2011;Hinton and Hjorth 2019), and can produce negative psychological effects (Pirker 2018;Rieger and Klimmt 2019;Sebastian 2019;Wallace and Buil 2021). Another point casting doubt on an overly optimistic perspective on the emancipatory potential of social media is that online communication is also said to foster radicalizing tendencies (Frischlich 2021).…”

Section: Superdiverse Bubbles and Religious Belonging Onlinementioning

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Religious “Bubbles” in a Superdiverse Digital Landscape? Research with Religious Youth on Instagram

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Religious activities are no longer confined to local religious communities, but are increasingly taking place online. In that regard, social media is of particular importance for young believers that connect with their peers via platforms such as Instagram. There are conflicting views on the functioning of social media platforms: they are either conceptualized as superdiverse spaces, in which social boundaries can be overcome, or as resulting in separate bubbles that foster exclusive exchanges between like-minded people sharing certain characteristics, including religious affiliation. This article assesses online religious activities based on qualitative research involving 41 young, urban, religious Instagram users of different faiths. We demonstrate how young believers’ interactions on social media produce thematically bound content bubbles that are considerably homogeneous when it comes to religion, but superdiverse in other areas. Religious activities online often have an affirmative effect on religious belonging. This is especially true for young people that perceive themselves in a minority position and search for like-minded people online. We have found that religious content bubbles are clustered around religious traditions. Interreligious exchange (e.g., between Christians and Sikhs) is largely absent, whereas intrareligious boundaries (e.g., between Lutherans, Catholics, and Pentecostals) become blurred. This suggests that differences within religious traditions are losing significance in a digitalized world, while interreligious boundaries remain.

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“…In her brief update of her 2016 PhD thesis about the hashtag #upskirt on Instagram, Sebastian (2019) frames upskirting as ‘gendered surveillance’ which ‘is still able to exist and even thrive’ (p. 43) on the social media site. Hargreaves (2018), writing from the perspective of Law, gives a fuller account of ‘creepshots’ as a form of surveillance.…”

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“…In the scholarship about upskirting, victims are visible to varying extents. In six of the sources (three from Law, one each from Social Work, Technology/Computing, and Media and Communications) there is no or only minimal reference to victims, rendering victims largely invisible (Fok, 2017; Huang & Kong, 2016; Sebastian, 2019; Whiteman, 2019; Tam et al, 2021; Kremenetsky, 2000). In the majority of sources, there is fuller consideration of victims, but the extent of this consideration varies significantly.…”

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Upskirting: A Systematic Literature Review

Lewis

Anitha

2022

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Upskirting’ – the non-consensual taking and/or dissemination of intimate images taken surreptitiously up a skirt – is a relatively new addition to the repertoire of men’s violence against women and girls. Recently, it has received considerable media and public attention in many countries and some academic scrutiny. This systematic review explicates how scholars construct upskirting as a matter for academic inquiry and a social problem that requires remedy. Four research sub-questions address how scholarship constructs: the problem of upskirting; perpetrators of upskirting; victims of upskirting, and remedies. Five bibliographical databases were searched, yielding 26 sources that met the inclusion criteria. Most of the studies (16) and most of the earlier work are from the discipline of Law. Other studies come from a combination of Criminology, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, and Computing. The predominance of legal scholarship has created a framing of upskirting which constructs it as an individual sexual act, for purposes of sexual gratification, as gender-neutral, as the act of aberrant individuals, and scrutinises the act of taking the photograph. By contrast, scholarship from other disciplines is more likely to locate upskirting as highly gendered behaviour in the context of gendered relations of power, and of violence against women and girls, and to consider both the act of taking the photograph and its dissemination online. We argue that future research ought to: approach upskirting as a form of violence against women and girls; be empirical and intersectional, and engage with victims and perpetrators.

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Instagram and Gendered Surveillance: Ways of Seeing the Hashtag

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

The Characteristics of the Use of Instagram Among Adolescent Girls

The Characteristics of the Use of Instagram Among Adolescent Girls

Religious “Bubbles” in a Superdiverse Digital Landscape? Research with Religious Youth on Instagram

Upskirting: A Systematic Literature Review

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