scholarly journals Locating Identities in Time: An Examination of the Formation and Impact of Temporality on Presentations of the Self through Location-Based Social Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Papangelis ◽  
Ioanna Lykourentzou ◽  
Vassilis-Javed Khan ◽  
Alan Chamberlain ◽  
Ting Cao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
A Priori ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
Location Based Social Networks ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way ◽  
Dynamic Context

Studies of identity and location-based social networks (LBSN) have tended to focus on the performative aspects associated with marking one's location. Yet these studies often present this practice as being an a priori aspect of locative media. What is missing from this research is a more granular understanding of how this process develops over time. Accordingly, we focus on the first 6 weeks of 42 users beginning to use an LBSN we designed and named GeoMoments . Through our analysis of our users' activities, we contribute to understanding identity and LBSN in two distinct ways. First, we show how LBSN users develop and perform self-identity over time. Second, we highlight the extent these temporal processes reshape the behaviors of users. Overall, our results illustrate that although a performative use of GeoMoments does evolve, this development does not occur in a vacuum. Rather, it occurs within the dynamic context of everyday life, which is prompted, conditioned, and mediated by the way the affordances of GeoMoments digitally organize and archive past locational traces.

Social Class, Consumption and the Influence of Bourdieu: Some Critical Issues

1997 ◽  
Vol 44 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 274-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Longhurst ◽  
Mike Savage
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

Bourdieu's work has been an important point of departure for recent analyses of the relationship between social class and consumption practices. This chapter takes stock of Bourdieu's influence and explores some problems which have become apparent—often in spite of Bourdieu's own hopes and general views. We point to the way that Bourdieu's influence has led to an approach to consumption which focuses on the consumption practices of specific occupational classes and on examining variations in consumption practice between such occupational groups. We argue that it this approach has a series of problems and suggest the need to broaden analyses of consumption to consider issues of ‘everyday life’, sociation, and social networks.

Introduction: Urban friendship networks: Affective negotiations and potentialities of care

Urban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laavanya Kathiravelu ◽  
Tim Bunnell
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
Ethnic Solidarity

Issues of integration, assimilation and the place of ‘strangers’ within metropolitan contexts have been overwhelmingly conceptualised within the larger structural frames of ethnicity, nationality, immigration status and socio-economic class. This raises and reflects important issues around strategies of differentiation, urban exclusion and the hierarchies inherent in everyday life within contemporary cities. However, in privileging such modes of analysis, other more dynamic, elastic, latent and surreptitious forms of affinity, relatedness and connection within the urban environment are often left unexamined. Friendship is one of these. The articles in this special issue initiate a deeper and more sustained focus on friendship as a relational modality that characterises many urban interactions, and that also takes on particular forms within demographically diverse city spaces. The particular contribution of this special issue is in bringing together the literature from urban studies, research on diversity, understandings of social capital and networks and contemporary discussions of friendship. This introduction to the special issue argues that adopting alternative frameworks of enquiry such as friendship can serve to unsettle a priori assumptions about co-ethnic solidarity, and provide alternative epistemological starting points in understanding social networks. In doing so, this research not only contributes to contemporary readings of diverse cities but extends understandings of the routine affective and material labour that urban dwellers regularly undertake. Calling for a focus on informal bonds like friendship, this article suggests that it is within such unexplored spheres that possibilities of care and convivial city living exist.

scholarly journals NAVIGATING NETWORKED TIME: VISUAL SELF-IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT AMONG YOUTH

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Gorea
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
The Self ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Mediated Presence ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Fundamental Reference

According to dominant theorizations of contemporary society, many people’s daily practices now occur within, and reproduce, a social world where media are the fundamental reference and resource for the development of the self (Couldry and Hepp 2017:15). Although previous research has revealed the mutual shaping of technologies, interaction, and identity in the broader contexts of economic and social change related to ‘millennials’, we know little about the precise ways in which these practices occur and how the self is being differently constructed over time. Using a multi-method qualitative approach, this work in progress paper explores three key questions: 1) What happens when visuality becomes a part of youth’s everyday practices of interaction? 2) What roles are images playing in routine interaction among youth? 3) How and in what ways does the maintenance of a visually ‘mediated presence’ in social media shape youths’ views of the self? This paper elaborates on findings within three categories that illustrate youth’s visual practices and how they are differently understood over time: (1) images of the self in the moment; (2) images of the self over time; and (3) images of the self under surveillance. The preliminary findings of this research suggest that although youth’s technological practices may not all be new, there are significant aspects of visuality that alters some of the key factors shaping young people’s use and understandings of new media technologies.

scholarly journals A Escola na Rede: Apresentações da Escola no Ciberespaço

Palíndromo ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Fabricio Zanin ◽  
Moema Martins Rebouças
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
The Self ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Presentation Modes ◽  
Modes Of Presentation ◽  
The Way

RESUMOA pesquisa apresenta reflexões sobre os modos de apresentação da vida escolar a partir da figuratividade apresentada e nos discursos verbais dos adolescentes nas comunidades virtuais das redes sociais digitais, mais especificamente o Orkut. Discute também o modo como a escola se apresenta em seu site oficial e quais as relações e dilemas que se estabelecem entre o visual que a escola constrói  de si e o visual construído pelos adolescentes, sujeitos que constituem seu espaço físico. Tomando como referencial teórico os estudos referentes a análise do discurso que permeiam a Semiótica Discursiva dentre outras reflexões pertinentes a sóciossemiótica, pudemos compreender de que modo os alunos, por meio das comunidade virtuais, apresentam a escola de um modo que em muito difere do modo como a escola se apresenta em seu site oficial.Palavras-chave: Escola, Modos de Apresentação, Ciberespaço. ABSTRACTThe research presents reflections on modes of presentation of school’s life from figuration presented by teens verbal discourses in virtual communities of social networks, specifically Orkut. It also discusses how the school presents itself on its website and which relationships and dilemmas are established between the self-built school’s view and the adolescents view, individuals who constitute their physical space.Taking as theoretical studies concerning the analysis of discourse that permeate the discourse of semiotics among other relevant considerations to sociosemiotics, we understand how students, through the virtual community, presents the school in a way that differs greatly from the way the school has on its official website.Keywords: School, Presentation Modes, Cyberspace.

scholarly journals CAN WE STOP THE ATLANTIC LOBSTER FISHERY GOING THE WAY OF NEWFOUNDLAND’S ATLANTIC COD? A PERSPECTIVE

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Corkett
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Cod ◽  
Regulatory Policy ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Lobster Fishery ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

The cod and lobster fisheries of Atlantic Canada are managed in verydifferent ways. Regulatory policy for Atlantic cod has traditionally beenbased on population or biomass measurements, something that has neverbeen done for the management of Atlantic Canada’s lobster. While thesetraditional methods differ, an alternate logical or analytic approach tomanagement is perhaps one way that sound and rational fisheries can bemanaged. The recommendations that follow derive from asking: can welearn analytic lessons from the collapse of Atlantic cod that might allow usto avoid a similar collapse in Atlantic lobster? A landings-per-unit-of-effort(LPUE) index could be constructed for the lobster industry that wouldprovide a continuous trend over time. This trend would form an effectivefeedback model; a declining trend over time would indicate the goal ofsustainability was in jeopardy, whereas a level or increasing trend overtime would indicate that the industry was maintaining its sustainability.Crucially, an LPUE index should only be used as an argument a posterioriinvolving feedback in the form of trends. This index should never be usedas an argument a priori to estimate lobster abundance or lobster biomass

Caste Patriarchy and the Dehumanization of Dalit Women in Indian Society: Phoole–Ambedkarite Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 2455328X2110393
Author(s):  
Nibedita Priyadarsini ◽  
Satya Swaroop Panda
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Dalit Women ◽  
The Way

Indian society is entrenched in graded inequality with the continuity of Brahminical order among the Hindu caste. The Ambedkarite perspective of graded inequality paves the way towards the possibility of a critical examination of the discourse based on a prospective theorization of the caste patriarchy having its epistemological origin in the ideas propounded by Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phoole and Dr B. R. Ambedkar. The article seeks to explore the potential of such a theorization emerging from the predominant practices in Indian caste society that are pervasive across the communities with respect to the dehumanization of Dalit women in their everyday life. The article also focuses upon the strength of such a stand-point which would not only form the basis of an alternate academic discourse but also contribute towards the agenda of Dalit women collective in envisaging their role in terms of self-identity embedded with critical consciousness. The multiplicity of vulnerabilities of being a Dalit and a woman reflects the way the Dalit women get dehumanized in a number of cases, and they are often considered a gateway to the caste system. There is an emerging need of such theorization based on experiential learning along with the realization of its importance in defining the base of a radical sociopolitical alternative championing the ideological principles of a Phoole–Ambedkarite perspective.

Identity, Community and the Natural Environment: Some Perspectives from Process Thinking

1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-267
Author(s):  
Clare Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Process Thinking ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Differentiation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

AbstractAlfred North Whitehead's and Charles Hartshorne's process thinking presents a complex and sophisticated metaphysical underpinning for a theory of self and self-identity. Their construction of the self has significant implications for understanding of the (human) community and the natural environment. Process thinking, I argue, undercuts the idea of self unity; of self-continuity over time; and of self-differentiation from the world. When combined, these three elements mean that it is hard to separate the individual, personal self from the community and the natural world. I compare these implications from process thinking with what might seem similar implications from radical ecological philosophies. Although there are ethical and metaphysical differences between process thinkers and deep ecologists, both kinds of theory need to be treated with caution in application to our thinking about the environment.

Democracy and Everyday Life

2015 ◽  
pp. 6-41
Author(s):  
Leszek Koczanowicz
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
The Self ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
National Community ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The Way

In chapter 1, democracy is analyzed as everyday life practices. American pragmatism provides theoretical underpinnings for my approach. George Herbert Mead’s and John Dewey’s political concepts are interpreted as showing a passage from everyday life to politics. While G.H. Mead depicts how communication creates the self and, consequently, how politics can be treated as a universalization of everyday life practices, John Dewey describes the way in which democracy becomes a community’s form of life. Both show that community is not inevitably hostile to liberalism, but it can enhance liberal ideals of individual freedom and autonomy Therefore, the pragmatist concept of community is relevant to contemporary discussions on the relationships between community, especially the national community, and democracy, because it transcends the communitarian liberal debate.

scholarly journals Surveillance and Ethnography: Researching Surveillance as Everyday Life

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Green ◽  
Nils Zurawski
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Future Contribution ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Over Time

This article argues for a wider and more nuanced understanding of ethnography’s role in Surveillance Studies than has sometimes historically been the case. The article begins by (briefly) deconstructing some of the ways that the concepts of both ‘surveillance’ and ‘ethnography’ have been deployed in empirical surveillance research over time, in order to set the scene for a critical interrogation of the variety of ethnographic approaches so far used within Surveillance Studies. The paper then goes on to review Surveillance Studies approaches broadly, and a range of qualitative and ethnographically-informed approaches in particular, within interdisciplinary empirical research related to surveillance relations. The ensuing discussion identifies several points where the existing empirical evidence base would benefit from more extensive ethnographic studies, at multiple sites and scales, that methodologically recognize surveillance as situated and meaningful everyday life processes and practices, rather than surveillant activities and relationships in settings defined as ‘surveillance’ in an a priori fashion. The article concludes by suggesting that approaches oriented towards empirically understanding surveillance practices as ‘everyday life’ have a significant future contribution to make, particularly with respect to building and developing our theoretical understandings of surveillant assemblages in everyday life contexts.

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