Trashing<i>The Prime Minister's Bride</i>: Public Dismay and Intertextual Media

Paasonen, Susanna; Pajala, Mari

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“…The controversy generated by Ariell's post, and around her as a public figure, is also an example of "an emerging familiar model of trans-media shaming" which is to some extent enabled "by the traditional media's parasitic recycling of social media feeds" (Wood, 2018, p. 626). Paasonen and Pajala (2010) define similar practices of affective circulation as "intertextual media" where (negative) affects are generated and directed towards certain (public) figures: the more something is circulated across tabloids, magazines, evening papers and online discussion forums, the more affective value it accumulates.…”

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“…It is especially easy to find discussion threads and comments where intense affects-disavowal, irritation, disgust-and ideas about immorality, dirt and contagion are directed towards and attached to classed others (Jensen, 2013;Kolehmainen, 2017). At times, these include personal vilifications of public figures (Paasonen & Pajala, 2010).…”

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“…The commenters in the discussion forum visibly based their evaluations and judgements on Ariell as a celebrity familiar from "traditional" media such as TV and newspapers, and on her broader presence in social media (including her photographs on Instagram and Facebook). Thus, although we focus on one particular thread, affects are broadly generated and circulated in a wider digital intimate public (Paasonen & Pajala, 2010;Wood, 2018). Such social media engagement parallels the ways that audiences engage with reality television.…”

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In 2017, Finnish celebrity Sini Ariell published a blog post titled "F*** this shit" in which she revealed her difficult feelings as a mother of a newborn baby. Attracting attention from Finnish media, the post went viral. Through the empirical analysis of affective reactions to the post on an anonymous online discussion board, we explore how the limits of the public expression of negative maternal feelings are negotiated and maintained, but also challenged. Our results highlight the normative, even punitive dynamics of the digital intimate public, as commenters on the discussion board often argued that struggles and unhappiness during motherhood should not be made public but dealt with in private. However, ambivalences and supportive comments suggested the possibility to challenge norms surrounding motherhood and widen the discussion of difficulties and inequalities in motherhood and family life. Based on our analysis, we argue that affective articulations of anger, anxiety and exhaustion may challenge the digital intimate public's "infrastructure of happiness", and they thus have political potential to disrupt the ideals of good motherhood and address the affective struggles that mothering often entails.

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“…As a politician, Matti Vanhanen is known in Finland for his calm and tightly controlled behaviour, including a tendency to downplay conflicts. His public image has been constructed as both highly ordinary and decent-a good family man and a humble public servant (Laaninen 2005;Paasonen & Pajala 2010). He obviously also felt ideologically connected to Ollila as in 2003, Vanhanen asked him to become the presidential candidate for the Centre Party (Ollila & Saukkomaa 2016).…”

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“…If women’s magazines in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s raised, and gave visibility to, the issue of women’s political strife, in the 2000s, their point of view seems to have been balancing the increasingly adversarial style of news journalism that surrounds politics and politicians with negativity (see McNair, 2000). Particularly, after the latest national corruption scandal, the recent political sex scandals (Juntunen and Väliverronen, 2010; Paasonen and Pajala, 2012) and the ongoing Euro crisis heightening tensions in politics and society as a whole (Eide and Nikunen, 2011), women’s magazines seem to have adopted the role of dissolving political polarizations and embracing politics and politicians with respectability.…”

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TrashingThe Prime Minister's Bride: Public Dismay and Intertextual Media

Cited by 4 publications

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“F*** this shit” - Negotiating the Boundaries of Public Expression of Mother’s Negative Feelings

“F*** this shit” - Negotiating the Boundaries of Public Expression of Mother’s Negative Feelings

Kingdom of Nokia: How a Nation Served the Needs of One Company

Women’s magazines in the Nordic style: Politics, politicians and the welfare state

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