Transnational Digital Imaginaries

Hess, John A.; Zimmermann, Patricia R.

doi:10.1353/wan.1999.0004

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“…Because places are open, porous and relational (Massey 1991, 1993) the emotional identification of activists with particular places is of strategic importance to the construction and maintenance of personal bonds among activists and of larger trans‐local networks (Ettlinger & Bosco 2004). In the latter case, activists in broader, geographically‐dispersed networks experience emotional proximity – rather than actual local interaction – through their emotional connection to key symbolic places that are important to the movement (Bosco 2006, p. 359) 5 or through new communications technology (such as the Internet) that provide virtual meeting grounds (Escobar 1999; Hess & Zimmerman 1999; Hampton & Wellman 2003). Even though communications technology provides a valuable infrastructure for networking, place and place‐based social ties are still important (Parham 2004).…”

Section: Social Movements Network and Emotional Geographiesmentioning

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Emotions That Build Networks: Geographies of Human Rights Movements in Argentina and Beyond

Bosco¹

2007

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

108

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Social movement activists perform emotional labour that helps create and mobilise networks of collective action. The emotions of activism often contribute to social movements' different organisational geographies. Two grassroots networks of human rights activists that originated in Argentina (the "Madres de Plaza de Mayo" and "HIJOS") developed different emotional geographies over time. Both human rights movements were formed by relatives of victims of past human rights abuses and operated throughout Latin America and beyond. The movements incorporated activists and supporters who were linked by shared emotional bonds and by a common interpretation of the emotions of their activism. Activists in the two networks strategically deployed and framed the emotions of their activism in order to sustain it and to enhance possibilities for building broader networks of collective action. The comparison of these two human rights activist groups demonstrates that social movements' organisational and geographic trajectories are often related to activists' shared emotional connections and to the emotional labour that they perform through their networks. Copyright (c) 2007 by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG.

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Emotions That Build Networks: Geographies of Human Rights Movements in Argentina and Beyond

Bosco¹

2007

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

108

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“…We understand digital imaginaries as the interplay between cultural referents, such as symbols and media, and technological infrastructures, which gives rise to routinized practices assumed to resonate with an imagined community. We draw on Hess and Zimmermann’s (1999) concept of “transnational digital imaginaries” that considers how digital media can refigure “past/future traces” (p. 152) to open up possibilities for creating cultural meanings through the combination of current and past media practices. These possibilities are realized through individuals’ engagement with digital technology in practices of vernacular creativity, as the novel recombination of cultural resources in ways that are “recognizable because of their familiar elements, and create affective impact through the innovative process of recombination” (Burgess, 2006: 206).…”

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Tinder’s lesbian digital imaginary: Investigating (im)permeable boundaries of sexual identity on a popular dating app

Ferris

Duguay

2019

New Media & Society

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Dating apps have received rapid uptake, with Tinder as one of the most popular apps in the heterosexual market. However, little research has investigated the experiences of women seeking women (WSW) on this app. This article combines two interview studies of WSW in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom to investigate their self-presentations of sexual identity on Tinder. By configuring settings to “seeking women,” participants perceived they were entering a space conducive to finding WSW. However, men, couples, and heterosexual women permeated this space, heightening the need for participants to signal non-heterosexual identity. Their signals fused references to lesbian and queer culture with Tinder’s infrastructure to evoke a digital imaginary, as a routinized set of practices imagined to resonate with a shared community. Although signals within this digital imaginary were sometimes playful and ambiguous, their default toward a recognizable lesbian identity often rendered other sexual or gender identities invisible.

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Latin American History and Critical Media Studies: Curricular Explorations

Baugh¹

2004

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Transnational Digital Imaginaries

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Emotions That Build Networks: Geographies of Human Rights Movements in Argentina and Beyond

Emotions That Build Networks: Geographies of Human Rights Movements in Argentina and Beyond

Tinder’s lesbian digital imaginary: Investigating (im)permeable boundaries of sexual identity on a popular dating app

Latin American History and Critical Media Studies: Curricular Explorations

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