The Girl Effect and “Positive” Representations of Sporting Girls of the Global South: Social Media Portrayals of Afghan Girls on Skateboards

2018 ◽  
pp. 299-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Thorpe ◽  
Lyndsay M. C. Hayhurst ◽  
Megan Chawansky
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Global South ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Positive Representations

scholarly journals ‘Once My Relatives See Me on Social Media… It Will be Something Very Bad for My Family’: The Ethics and Risks of Organizational Representations of Sporting Girls From the Global South

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Thorpe ◽  
Lyndsay Hayhurst ◽  
Megan Chawansky
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Global South ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Positive Representations

This paper explores the ethics of representing girls and young women from the global South in Sport for Development (SfD) organizational campaigns via the case of Skateistan—an international SfD organization with skateboarding and educational programs in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and South Africa. Focusing particularly on Skateistan’s representations of skateboarding girls and young women in Afghanistan, we draw upon interviews with staff members as well as digital observations and organizational curriculum materials, to reveal some of the nuanced power relations within such media portrayals. In so doing, we also draw attention to some of the unintended risks of “positive” representations of sporting girls from the global South, and some of the strategies employed by Skateistan to navigate such issues.

scholarly journals Screening for Erdoğanism: Television, post-truth and political fear

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-354
Author(s):  
Burçe Çelik
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Production Dynamics

The majority of current political communication studies focuses on digital and social media, and overlooks the centrality of television for the production and endurance of strongman politics in the Global South. By focusing on the journalistic television productions aired during the June 2018 election period in Turkey, this article unpacks the televisual logic that is incarnated in different modalities of telling and narrating of televisual genres. I propose two main themes: the ‘political fear’ of physical and social security threats, and ‘post-truth communications’ as the main televisual idioms for a vision of the future that is either secure or chaotic, that is, with or without Erdoğan. By combining political economy, content and textual analysis, I scrutinise the production dynamics of the televisual economy and the control and content of factual segments.

scholarly journals What adolescents think of relationship portrayals on social media: a qualitative study

Sexual Health ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 467
Author(s):  
Melody Taba ◽  
Larissa Lewis ◽  
Spring Chenoa Cooper ◽  
Kath Albury ◽  
Kon Shing Kenneth Chung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Relationship Beliefs ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Semistructured Interviews

Background Understanding the factors influencing adolescents’ relationship views is important because early romantic relationships often act as precursors for relationships in adulthood. This study sought to examine the types of relationship-focused content adolescents witness on social media and how they perceive its effect on their romantic relationship beliefs. Methods: Sixteen semistructured interviews were conducted with Australian adolescents aged 16–19 years who were purposively sampled from a larger longitudinal study. Interview transcripts were analysed qualitatively using constructivist grounded theory. Results: Participants described the types of romantic relationship portrayals they saw on social media, including relationship-focused trends like ‘Relationship Goals’ and ‘Insta-Couples’. Participants explained their ability to identify incomplete and unrealistic relationship portrayals, as well as the pressure to share their relationships online in the same incomplete fashion. Views regarding the influence of social media were varied, but most believed social media relationship portrayals had some level of influence on young people’s relationship views; some participants believed this occurred regardless of awareness of the incompleteness of the online portrayal. Conclusions: Although participant interview data revealed the pervasiveness of social media relationship portrayals, it also revealed the sophisticated capabilities of adolescents in critiquing online media portrayals.

Spirit in the Air

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-101
Author(s):  
Randall Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
African American ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Global South ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Word Of Faith ◽  
Electronic Church

This chapter traces out the long and complex relationship between Holiness-Pentecostals and technology, innovation, and mass media. One of the most significant religious phenomena of the 1980s was the emergence, or at least widespread public awareness, of the electronic church. Indeed, in 1987, four of the most-watched religious programs on television were hosted by southern Pentecostals. In coming years, African American Word of Faith and Pentecostal ministers like T. D. Jakes and Creflo Dollar would join the ranks of these highly visible religious stars. The link between Holiness and Pentecostal faith and tech savviness was not accidental. Pentecostals have used these resources to spread the movement. While media-driven Pentecostalism made enormous headway in the Global South, it also gained ground in other unlikely places as well. Pentecostal ministers outside the states proved just as adept at using radio, TV, and, later, social media to champion the cause.

scholarly journals Empowering Users to Respond to Misinformation about Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 475-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily K. Vraga ◽  
Melissa Tully ◽  
Leticia Bode
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Global South ◽  
World Health ◽  
Quality Information ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The World ◽  
High Quality Information ◽  
News Literacy ◽  
Health Organization

The World Health Organization has declared that misinformation shared on social media about Covid-19 is an “infodemic” that must be fought alongside the pandemic itself. We reflect on how news literacy and science literacy can provide a foundation to combat misinformation about Covid-19 by giving social media users the tools to identify, consume, and share high-quality information. These skills can be put into practice to combat the infodemic by amplifying quality information and actively correcting misinformation seen on social media. We conclude by considering the extent to which what we know about these literacies and related behaviors can be extended to less-researched areas like the Global South.

scholarly journals Lack of sample diversity in research on adolescent depression and social media use: a scoping review and meta-analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakshi Ghai ◽  
Luisa Fassi ◽  
Faisal Awadh ◽  
Amy Orben
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Adolescent Depression ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Global South ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Global North ◽  
Urgent Action

Research on whether social media use relates to adolescent depression is rapidly increasing. However, is it adequately representing the diversity of global adolescent populations? We conducted a pre-registered scoping review (research published between 2018-2020; 34 articles) to investigate the proportion of studies recruiting samples from the Global North vs. Global South and assess whether the association between social media and depression varies depending on the population being studied. Sample diversity was lacking between regions: 70% of studies examined Global North populations. The link between social media and depression was positive and significant in the Global North but null and non-significant in the Global South. There was also little evidence of diversity within regions in both sampling choices and reporting of participants’ demographics. Given that most adolescents live in the Global South and sample diversity is crucial for the generalisability of research findings, urgent action is needed to address these oversights.

scholarly journals Languaging in digital global South–North spaces in the twenty-first century: media, language and identity in political discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta ◽  
Aprameya Rao
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Global South ◽  
First Century ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Language Varieties ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global North

Drawing inspiration from two theoretical framings: a sociocultural perspective on languaging and writings on a decolonial-turn, the study presented in this paper center-stages issues related to the need to engage analytically with, (i) social actions of political parties, citizens, including netizens in Web 2.0 settings, and (ii) alternative epistemologies where issues from the global-South are privileged. A central concern of decolonial linguistics enables asking new questions that destabilize established Eurocentric models of language. Thus, peripherally framed sociocultural premises contribute to critical social-humanistic perspectives that allow for (potentially) unpacking northern hegemonies and contributing to global-North challenges. Building upon an analytical design, this paper presents cross-disciplinary analysis of languaging in contemporary political mediascapes of the nation-states of India and Sweden. Bringing to bear that language does not only mirror reality, but is also a constitutive culturaltool, the study aims to highlight the contrastive ways in which the dominating political parties and citizens engage with languaging (i.e. the deployment of semiotic resources across language-varieties, modalities, including imagery). The study unpacks similarities and differences in salient issues related to the nature of social media and language and identity-positions in political discourse, highlighting dimensions of the participants voices. Thus, patterns that emerge from the contrastive analysis of political discourses, including the features of social media are highlighted and discussed. Data includes social media pages of two political parties from both the nation-states across a 6-week period at the end of 2017.

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