(Re)creating the Nation Online: Nationalism in Chinese Dota 2 Fandom

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Ismangil
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Daily Experience ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Normative Discourse ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn August 2016, Wings Gaming won the sixth edition of the International, a tournament for the videogame Dota 2. Wings Gaming, a team consisting of five Chinese players, was praised for bringing honour to China. This article explores various ways in which this Chinese Dota 2 community frames its fandom using nationalistic rhetoric. Teams identified as Chinese represent the country, honouring or disappointing the nation when they square off in tournaments. This article focusses on the everyday experience in this online community, arguing that the way in which people cheer for their teams stems from a nationalistic filter that makes nationalism the normative discourse in the community. A further comparison is made to American social media to discuss the role that truth plays when nationalism is discussed in the daily experience. This study concludes that a combination of factors surrounding the Chinese community creates a form of banal (cold) nationalism, which normalizes and strengthens national truths and myths.

Looking Back

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
The Way

The conclusion pulls together the key arguments presented throughout Troubled Everyday considering the way the melding of violence and the everyday in European art cinema has us reflect upon our own everyday outside of the cinema. In a world fraught with the violent and unexpected disruptions of terrorism, is it any wonder that films that call attention to the potential for sudden rupture to our everyday experience and understanding are so affecting? Examining Gaspar Noé’s reverse-running rape-revenge film Irreversible (2002), the conclusion offers some final reflections upon the relationship between violence and the everyday both in the cinema and outside of it.

scholarly journals COLONIALISM, INDEPENDENCE AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Toupin ◽  
Nii Kotei Nikoi Nikoi ◽  
Admire Mare ◽  
Wendy Willems
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Black People ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Way

Conventionally, the African continent is largely written out of accounts on technology. If discussed, technology is often framed as the result of outside influences or the product of technology transfer from the West but rarely are Africans taken seriously as makers or active users of technology (Mavhunga, 2014, 2017). Recent work on race and technology has been useful in highlighting the contribution of Black people to the development of digital technology (McIlwain, 2020) and the creative deployment of technology (Brock, 2020) but has not always engaged extensively with longer histories of racialization and transnational dimensions of Blackness. Ongoing debates on platform imperialism (Jin, 2013) and data colonialism (Couldry and Mejias, 2019) have been important in demonstrating the disproportionate levels of power that global social media platforms continue to wield and the lingering importance of technology in extractive practices. However, these political economy approaches have insufficiently acknowledged spaces for agency nor have they examined the way in which the state impinges on the everyday lives of citizens. The four papers in this panel deploy the notion of independence to make sense of the way in which Africans have created, used and imagined digital technology. They treat digital technology as potential tools for liberation as well as constitutive of spaces that enable reflection on what it means to be independent. The panel regards the freedoms occasionally made possible by digital technology as always subject to the constraints imposed by powerful actors such as the (post)colonial state and corporate social media platforms.

scholarly journals NARASI TENTANG AUTISM DI FACEBOOK (Studi Autoetnografi pada Status K.W)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Frida Kusumastuti ◽  
Jeanne Leonardo ◽  
Radityo Widiatmojo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
General Public ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Life Narrative ◽  
Daily Experience ◽  
Professional Caregiver ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Account ◽  
The Way

The narrative of a mother who is directly involved in living with a child with an autistic child's lifetime is worth noting because it can complement the narrative of the Professionals (doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, educators). Especially if the narrative is done openly on social media such as Facebook. Social Media gives the opportunity of public voices that were originally being repossessed by large narratives. Thus the purpose of this research is to interpret the narrative of the subject about autism based on daily experience (everyday life). Narrative is the way someone tells his experience. The narrative about Autism, commonly referred to as "disability", is not necessarily the same as the people's narration or family. The narrative of experts and the general public about defects is often done in a dichotomistic, i.e. only when defects – including autism – are seen as sadness or suffering, and when a defective individual is successful with extraordinary achievement. This research was conducted on a Facebook social account, which is a KW account – a single-parent mother claiming to have five children, of which three of them (15 years old, 10 years old and 7 years old) were autistic. The choice on the subject of the study because the KW handled the children's autism with a full involvement with no shadower nor professional caregiver. Secondly, KW is capable of conducting autism narrative through social media (Facebook) which is open. The results showed (1) Narrative about the nature, attitudes, and principles of Autism, (2) narrative on the achievement of autism.

MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
PHILIP ADEBO
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Way

The emergence of mobile connectivity is revolutionizing the way people live, work, interact, and socialize. Mobile social media is the heart of this social revolution. It is becoming a global phenomenon as it enables IP-connectivity for people on the move. Popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace have made mobile apps for their users to have instant access from anywhere at any time. This paper provides a brief introduction into mobile social media, their benefits, and challenges.

Rereading Diaspora: Reverberating Voices and Diasporic Listening in Italo-Australian Digital Storytelling

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Daniella Trimboli
Keyword(s):  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
The Everyday

Abstract The contemporary diasporic experience is fragmented and contradictory, and the notion of ‘home’ increasingly blurry. In response to these moving circumstances, many diaspora and multiculturalism studies’ scholars have turned to the everyday, focussing on the local particularities of the diasporic experience. Using the Italo-Australian digital storytelling collection Racconti: La Voce del Popolo, this paper argues that, while crucial, the everyday experience of diaspora always needs to be read in relation to broader, dislocated contexts. Indeed, to draw on Grant Farred (2009), the experience of diaspora must be read both in relation to—but always ‘out of’—context. Reading diaspora in this way helps reveal aspects of diasporic life that have the potential to productively disrupt dominant assimilationist discourses of multiculturalism that continue to dominate. This kind of re-reading is pertinent in colonial nations like Australia, whose multiculturalism rhetoric continues to echo normative whiteness.

AN EXPLORATION OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN TEENAGERS’ USE, CONSUMPTION AND DIGITAL PRODUCTION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corina-Maricica Seserman ◽  
Daniela Cojocaru
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
The Way

Today’s teenagers have a very close relationship with ICTs and the digital space related to them, as they have impacted the way the youth constructs their sense of self and the tools they use to perform their carefully constructed identity. One key element which influences the way one constructs their views by themselves is within the boundaries set by their biological sex and therefore through the behaviors associated with their asigned gender. Through the symbolic interactionist lense, or more specifically through Goffman's dramaturgical theory on the manner in which one presents him/herself in society, this paper looks at the manner in which teenagers use social media platforms and at the way they consume and create digital content in order to present their gender identity. The way teenagers consume and produce digital content differs and depends on how they interpret their ideals of femininity and masculinity, which are afterwards reproduced in the content they post on their social media pages. Therefore this research is an attempt to understand what are the factors teenagers take in account when consuming and producing content. What gender differences can be observed in regards to new media consumption? What difference can be observed in online activity behaviors between males and females? How do they feel about their gender identity concerning fitting in with their peer group? A mix-methodological approach was engaged in the data collection process. In the first stage of the research highschool students (n=324) from the city of Suceava (Romania) participated in taking an online survey. The initial intent was to meet with the young respondents in person, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic this was deemed impossible. For the second stage of data collection, six of the participants who took the online survey were invited to participate in a focus group designed to grasp a better understanding of the results from the previous stage. The discovered findings uncover engaging gender similarities and differences in social media consumption and the type, subject, matter and style in which they posted their content, but also in regards to the performance of the self between the online and offline space.

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