scholarly journals Digital Feminist Activism: #MeToo and the Everyday Experiences of Challenging Rape Culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlynn Mendes ◽  
Jessica Ringrose
Keyword(s):  
Rape Culture ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Experiences

Digital Feminist Activism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlynn Mendes ◽  
Jessica Ringrose ◽  
Jessalynn Keller
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Social Media Platforms

In recent years, feminists have turned to digital technologies and social media platforms to dialogue, network, and organize against contemporary sexism, misogyny, and rape culture. The emergence of feminist campaigns such as #MeToo, #BeenRapedNeverReported, and Everyday Sexism are part of a growing trend of digital resistances and challenges to sexism, patriarchy, and other forms of oppression. Although recent scholarship has documented the ways digital spaces are often highly creative sites where the public can learn about and intervene in rape culture, little research has explored girls’ and women’s experiences of using digital platforms to challenge misogynistic practices. This is therefore the first book-length study to interrogate how girls and women negotiate rape culture through digital platforms, including blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and mobile apps. Through an analysis of high-profile campaigns such as Hollaback!, Everyday Sexism, and the everyday activism of Twitter feminists, this book presents findings of over 800 pieces of digital content, and semi-structured interviews with 82 girls, women, and some men around the world, including organizers of various feminist campaigns and those who have contributed to them. As our study shows, digital feminist activism is far more complex and nuanced than one might initially expect, and a variety of digital platforms are used in a multitude of ways, for many purposes. Furthermore, although it may be technologically easy for many groups to engage in digital feminist activism, there remain emotional, mental, or practical barriers that create different experiences, and legitimate some feminist voices, perspectives, and experiences over others.

Age and gentrification in Berlin: urban ageing policy and the experiences of disadvantaged older people

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Dale ◽  
Josefine Heusinger ◽  
Birgit Wolter
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Chapter 5 examines the impact of gentrification processes in Berlin, Germany, on the distribution of older people across the city as well as the everyday experiences of ageing in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The chapter concludes with an overview of developments in the context of political processes, where urban transformation driven by economic interests generates growing conflict and contradiction with the needs of an ageing and increasingly less affluent population.

scholarly journals Collaborative working practices: Imagining better research partnerships

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zanib Rasool
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Funds Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Gap ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Everyday Experiences

Collaborative research can bring communities to the heart of social research and provide a lens on the everyday experiences of ordinary people living extraordinary lives, capturing the funds of knowledge held in communities that exist outside the corridors of education institutions. If delivered in an ethical way, co-production can empower communities and elevate voices that traditionally have been on the margins. Through collaboration, we can bridge the knowledge gap that exists between communities and universities and raise community aspirations.

Soldier photography: visualising the war in Iraq

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 817-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIAM KENNEDY
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
War In Iraq ◽  
Digital Generation ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article focuses on the production and dissemination of photographic images by serving US soldiers in Iraq who are photographing their experiences and posting them on the Internet. This form of visual communication – in real time and communal – is new in the representation of warfare; in earlier wars soldiers took photographs, but these were not immediately shared in the way websites can disseminate images globally. This digital generation of soldiers exist in a new relationship to their experience of war; they are now potential witnesses and sources within the documentation of events, not just the imaged actors – a blurring of roles that reflects the correlations of revolutions in military and media affairs. This photography documents the everyday experiences of the soldiers and its historical significance may reside less in the controversial or revelatory images but in more mundane documentation of the environments, activities and feelings of American soldiery at war.

ThePennyles Pilgrimageof John Taylor: Poverty, Mobility and Performance in Seventeenth-Century Literary Circles

Rural History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIE SANDERS
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Ben Jonson ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
John Taylor ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Literary Circles

Abstract:In this article I ask what it means for cartographical, social, economic and political understandings of poverty and mobility when the ‘geography of vagrancy’, as A. L. Beier termed it, is re-staged and reconfigured in specific acts of writing and even specific acts of walking. Invoking a range of public performances as well as print and manuscript publications by recognised literary figures of the day, including work by Ben Jonson and John Taylor, I concentrate on one particular literary remaking of the everyday experiences of the mobile poor in Taylor's 1618 published pamphletThe Pennyles Pilgrimage or The Money-lesse perambulation, of Iohn Taylor, Alias the Kings Majesties Water-Poet. What Taylor understood when engaging with the ‘geography of vagrancy’ in his challenging text was that the act of mapping the spatial world of the itinerant poor required considerable thought not only about the spaces inhabited, albeit temporarily, or travelled through, but also the ways in which the mobile poor performed such spaces. In turn, Taylor's own performance can be understood as a contradictory act of commercial enterprise and self-promotion as well as one that gives literary historians significant access to contemporary imaginings of the specific socioeconomic and spatial conditions of poverty and mobility.

scholarly journals Doing family: The reproduction of heterosexuality in accounts of parenthood

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 646-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Kazyak ◽  
Nicholas K. Park
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Daily Interactions ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
American Society

The cultural and legal landscape in the United States has shifted towards increased recognition of LGBQ-parent families. This shift raises questions about the everyday experiences of LGBQ parents and whether the cultural and legal changes also manifest in diminished experiences of discrimination. Drawing on data from 74 interviews with LGBQ parents, we analyze their accounts of whether they are read as a parent by others in their daily interactions. Our findings reveal the ways in which heterosexuality is a key component of how membership to the category of ‘parent’ is produced in social interactions. Our findings also illustrate how assumptions about heterosexuality are both racialized and gendered. Our focus on accountability foregrounds power in everyday interactions and provides a lens through which to understand how inequality and disempowerment for LGBQ people can persist in American society despite cultural and legal changes.

The New Mediascape and Contemporary American Food Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Chavez Bush
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Content Generation

Together, food and media have long been a means by which people communicate, perform their identities, and express their values. This article focuses on how contemporary culinary work is influenced by the new mediascape, a channel of convergence through which we understand, enjoy, and participate in our food worlds. As new media proliferates and access to interactive and creative tools expands, content generation and ownership has transferred from the hands of a small population of professionals into the fast fingers of amateurs and expert producers across the globe—effectively transforming who mediates and how we mediate. Consumers now double as mediamakers; often called co-creators, or prosumers, these new forms of interactive mediation influence labor practices and professional identities across industries. In the food world, this transition has been spurred onward by food TV and chef celebrity changing the expectations we hold for our chefs and their restaurants. By drawing from the everyday experiences of people embedded within these food and media networks and integrating transdisciplinary theory, this article demonstrates a promising approach to understanding our food futures.

‘I just rolled up my sleeves’: Mothers’ perspectives on raising girls on the autism spectrum

Autism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136236132095687
Author(s):  
Karen Fowler ◽  
Cliodhna O’Connor
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Parental Stress ◽  
Acute Stress ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Autism Diagnosis ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
The Impact

Little previous research has elucidated the everyday experiences of autistic girls or their families. This study used qualitative in-depth interviews to explore mothers’ experiences of the diagnosis, presentation and impact of caring for a daughter with autism. Nineteen women with autistic daughters (aged between 7 and 18) participated in the research, which took place in Ireland. Thematic analysis identified six themes: What’s Going On?; Road to Acceptance; Beyond the Stigma of Autism; Autism: Like a Girl; Mothers Holding It All Together; and Mothers Roll Up Their Sleeves. The analysis suggests that the path of autism in girls in Ireland is marked by diagnostic delays, social stigma, interpersonal difficulties, mental health comorbidities and parental stress. However, these challenges were offset by the resilience of mothers, buttressed by pride in their daughters and support from other women. Results will inform the development of policy and practice that is sensitive to the lived realities of autistic girls and their families. Lay abstract Autism in boys has been well researched but very little is known about the everyday experiences of autistic girls or their families. Mothers’ views and insights can be very helpful in increasing knowledge around the unique demands of raising a daughter with autism. This study conducted interviews with Irish mothers to examine their own experiences regarding (a) getting an autism diagnosis for their daughter, (b) their daughters’ personal characteristics and (c) the impact of caring for a daughter with autism. The study suggests that the route to an autism diagnosis for girls in Ireland is made more difficult by delays and missed diagnoses, and often followed by inadequate supports. Mothers described autistic girls as presenting with social challenges and mental health difficulties. Many mothers experienced judgement from other parents and family members, acute stress and mental health struggles. However, these challenges were offset by mothers’ resilience, pride in their daughters and support from other women. The findings of this study highlight the importance of specific support for autistic girls and their families.

Lively Functions for Algebra One

1969 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 365-368
Author(s):  
Louis R. McCreery
Keyword(s):  
Constant Ratio ◽  
Service Station ◽  
Beginning Algebra ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Concept Of Function ◽  
Abstract Ideas ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Ordered Pairs

The abstract ideas making up the concept of function can be made to come alive in the everyday experiences of a beginning algebra student. For instance, the gas pump at the corner service station produces a realistic example. The gallon indicator interlocked with the cost wheel presents a set of ordered pairs in a most rapid and vivid fashion. Because a given number of gallons produces only one possible price, this set is a function. The price per gallon is the constant ratio that defines the function, and it is right there, sometimes in letters a foot high!

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