Spectacles of Self(ie) Empowerment? Networked Individualism and the Logic of the (Post)Feminist Selfie

Barnard, Stephen R.

doi:10.1108/s2050-206020160000011014

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“…This is due to the conventions of the ‘selfie’ image genre. Following a narrow definition of selfies (Lobinger, 2016; Barnard, 2016: 67; Tiidenberg, 2014), we only include pictures that have obviously been shot by (one of) the depicted person(s). Selfies are often so-called one-arm’s-length shots (see Figure 2).…”

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Memes against sexism? A multi-method analysis of the feminist protest hashtag #distractinglysexy and its resonance in the mainstream news media

Brantner¹,

Lobinger

Stehling

2019

Convergence

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Hashtag feminism has become a popular tactic of online protest against gender inequality. Using the Twitter hashtag #distractinglysexy, women scientists posted pictures of themselves in labs or during field research to contest misogynist remarks by Nobel laureate Tim Hunt. We examined the resulting humorous and memetic discourse on Twitter as well as its coverage in news media combining a content analysis of the multimodal tweets with a qualitative discourse analysis of German and British news media. The results show that the ironic memes in which researchers addressed sexism in academia by parodying social norms and ideals of ‘sexiness’ yielded substantial media attention, but with differences in the two countries: While the hashtag #distractinglysexy initiated a broader debate on sexism and discrimination in academia in the UK news media discourse, in the German context, this form of ‘self-mediation’ was portrayed either as ‘something funny on the Web’ or as a harmful firestorm.

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Memes against sexism? A multi-method analysis of the feminist protest hashtag #distractinglysexy and its resonance in the mainstream news media

Brantner¹,

Lobinger

Stehling

2019

Convergence

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“…Although the challenges social movement activists face are considerable, the growing mediatization of everyday life provides new opportunities for members of the public to participate in, and potentially shape, political and journalistic discourses. While uses of networked technologies for political and individual empowerment have been criticized for their lack of bearing on material realities (Barnard, 2016a; Morozov, 2014a), alternative forms of expression on social media have grown popular in political–activist cultures, often used to call attention to their cause and coordinate protest actions, therefore playing an important role in processes of social change. The case of Ferguson serves as an ongoing example of such reform, given the slow but notable changes in local, state, and federal policy, made possible in part by the persistence of networked activists (Wagner, 2016).…”

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Tweeting #Ferguson: Mediatized fields and the new activist journalist

Barnard

2017

New Media & Society

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As a hybrid, journo-activist space, tweeting #Ferguson quickly emerged as a way for activists and journalists to network and spread information. Using a mixed-methods approach combining digital ethnographic content analysis with social network analysis and link analysis, this study examines journalistic and activist uses of Twitter to identify changes in field relations and practices. Employing the lenses of field theory and mediatization, this study finds parity and divergence in the themes, frames, format, and discourse of journalist and activist Twitter practices. While the traditions of objective journalism and affective activism persist, notable exceptions occurred, especially following acts of police suppression. The networked communities of professional and activist Twitter users were overlapping and interactive, suggesting hybridity at the margins of the journalistic field. Given the hybridizing of journalistic and journo-activist practices, this case study examines the role of social media in efforts to report on and bolster social change.

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“…We situate this study in relation to a growing body of critical literature exploring the tensions and contradictions within selfie practices (Barnard, 2016;Cambre & Lavrence, 2019;Kedzior & Allen, 2016;Vivienne, 2017). We also engage literatures on post-feminist subjectivities (Gill's (2007(Gill's ( ), 2016(Gill's ( , 2017Gill & Scharff, 2011) to explore gendered practices of looking linked with "the construction of a visual cyber-mediastudies.press • Social Media & the Self: An Open Reader "Do I Look Like My Sel e?…”

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“Do I Look Like My Selfie?”: Filters and the Digital-Forensic Gaze

Lavrence¹,

Cambre²

2020

Social Media &Amp; The Self: An Open Reader

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Filtered faces are some of the most heavily engaged photos on social media. The vast majority of literature on selfies have focused on self-reported practices of creating and posting selfies and how subjects view themselves, but research on using filters and the kinds of looking filter provoke is underexplored. Part of a larger project, this analysis draws from a study using photo-elicitation techniques to discuss selfie filters with 12 focus groups, exploring the dominant discourses of cis-gendered looking within digital sociality. We explore how participants edit their selfies, imagine potential audiences, interact with, and perceive the filtering behaviors of others, asking what the "work" of filters is, visually and socially. We probe the kinds of discourses filters participate in, and their gendered and affective dimensions. Our focus groups indicate that when looking at the selfies of others there is often an a priori assumption that filtering has been applied, whether conspicuously or not, to the extent that visual tune-ups have become central to the genre itself. As such, we explore the ambivalence and anxiety about authenticity that filters produce, as well as the intense looking practices aimed at decoding the legitimacy of images. We posit that filters are part of a digital ecosystem that demands an intensification of looking practices, which produce and enhance specific forms of objectification directed toward selves and others within digital environments.

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Spectacles of Self(ie) Empowerment? Networked Individualism and the Logic of the (Post)Feminist Selfie

Cited by 26 publications

References 24 publications

Memes against sexism? A multi-method analysis of the feminist protest hashtag #distractinglysexy and its resonance in the mainstream news media

Memes against sexism? A multi-method analysis of the feminist protest hashtag #distractinglysexy and its resonance in the mainstream news media

Tweeting #Ferguson: Mediatized fields and the new activist journalist

“Do I Look Like My Selfie?”: Filters and the Digital-Forensic Gaze

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