Textbook Orientalism

Zagumny, Lisa; Richey, Amanda

doi:10.1007/978-94-6091-912-1_11

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“…It has been theorised as a method more oriented towards image production, that allows thinking 'about the visual in terms of the cultural significance, social practices and power relations that produce' (Troiani and Ewing, 2020). Or as a literacy, more oriented towards reception, which considers critical visuality as a tool to foster citizen critical thinking on how they read, create, and distribute images (Falihi and Wason-Ellam, 2009;Zagumny and Richey, 2012), so they can 'analyse visual experiences purposefully by deconstructing elements of images and reconstructing them through critical viewing and interpreting messages in a broad social, environmental, and cultural context ' Falihi and Wason-Ellam (2009): 409. Our approach to critical visuality will consider both approaches, that of production and that of reception, as we will examine graphic representations on a given topic that can be used to critically reflect on its constituting elements, while it allows us to observe perceptions and archetypes.…”

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Gig workers, critical visuality and humour in a digital context: The graphic representation of riders as a form of social criticism

Martorell

Roig

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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This article studies social perceptions of gig work and its conditions through the lenses of visual humour created and shared in digital environments. Food delivery services have thrived in cities, and riders – gig workers associated with such services – have become popular urban figures, easily recognisable through light means of transport and backpacks. These iconic elements have spread to forms of visual humour like memes and cartoons in social media. We aim to analyse the depiction of food delivery services and riders through graphic humour in digital environments, and its role as critical stances of gig work conditions. We draw from the literature on gig work, as well as critical humour in the workplace, approaching the phenomenon from the perspective of critical visualities and the memetic qualities of digital visual humour. Thus, we have conducted an analysis of rider memes, and carried out a focus group with Spanish cartoonists to better understand each form. From our analysis, we have observed that a) memes showcase less explicit critical stances but reflect a shared understanding of the hurdles associated to rider work; b) cartoons place riders in a contextualised, wider critique of platform economy and capitalism; c) while most graphic humour on riders takes an external, observational position, there is also an ‘inner look’ to the rider work, emphasising the promises and deceptions associated with the gig economy.

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Gig workers, critical visuality and humour in a digital context: The graphic representation of riders as a form of social criticism

Martorell

Roig

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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“…We coded the entire set of data rather than count keywords, giving us percentages rather than the more usual frequency data (Cornish, Carinci, and Noel 2012;Hawkins 2012;Zagumny and Richey 2012). Individual words were the formal unit of analysis, so each word in each chapter on an individual religion was categorised unambiguously, even where the code changed mid-sentence.…”

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Reading religion in Norwegian textbooks: are individual religions ideas or people?

Thomas

Rolin

2018

British Journal of Religious Education

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Andrew Thomas teaches at the Faculty of Education, University College Østfold. He has several years of experience teaching Religion and Ethics, History, Philosophy, Social Sciences and English at secondary schools in Norway as well as in higher education. His previous research includes work on church history, asceticism, and forms of contextual theology.Alf Rolin teaches in religious studies at the Faculty of Education, University College Østfold and currently leads the postgraduate teacher training programme. He has qualifications in both religious studies and pedagogy, and has published widely on issues in religious education as well as new forms of religiosity.

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A “Matter of the Whites”? Contemporary Textbook Portrayals of Former African Colonies in WWI

Bentrovato

Rath

2018

Textbooks and War

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Textbook Orientalism

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

Gig workers, critical visuality and humour in a digital context: The graphic representation of riders as a form of social criticism

Gig workers, critical visuality and humour in a digital context: The graphic representation of riders as a form of social criticism

Reading religion in Norwegian textbooks: are individual religions ideas or people?

A “Matter of the Whites”? Contemporary Textbook Portrayals of Former African Colonies in WWI

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