Career Confidential: Principal thinks he’s discriminated against for being a white male

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (5) ◽  
pp. 65-67
Author(s):  
Phyllis L. Fagel
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
White Male ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Grading Policy

Phyllis Fagell gives advice to educators about their professional dilemmas. In this month’s column, a principal believes he’s being passed over for promotions because he’s a white male. A teacher is frustrated about grading policy changes that seem to lower standards. And a teacher wonders if it’s possible to sue a parent who is criticizing her on social media.

scholarly journals ‘Ruined’ lives: Mediated white male victimhood

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-80
Author(s):  
Sarah Banet-Weiser
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
White Male ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
Almost All ◽  
False Accusations

When the hashtag #metoo began to circulate in digital and social media, it challenged a familiar interpretation of those who are raped or sexually harassed as victims, positioning women as embodied agents. Yet, almost exactly a year after the #metoo movement shot to visible prominence, a different, though eerily similar, story began to circulate on the same multi-media platforms as #metoo: a story about white male victimhood. Powerful men in positions of privilege (almost always white) began to take up the mantle of victimhood as their own, often claiming to be victims of false accusations of sexual harassment and assault by women. Through the analysis of five public statements by highly visible, powerful men who have been accused of sexual violence, I argue that the discourse of victimhood is appropriated not by those who have historically suffered but by those in positions of patriarchal power. Almost all of the statements contain some sentiment about how the accusation (occasionally acknowledging the actual violence) ‘ruined their life’, and all of the statements analyzed here center the author, the accused white man, as the key subject in peril and the authors position themselves as truth-tellers about the incidents. These statements underscore certain shifts in the public perception of sexual violence; the very success of the #metoo movement in shifting the narrative has meant that men have had to defend themselves more explicitly in public. In order to wrestle back a hegemonic gender stability, these men take on the mantle of victimhood themselves.

Connected to Orlando: An Autoethnography in Three(ish) Acts

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 519-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun E. Edmonds
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
White Male ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Queer People ◽  
The World

The massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, impacted the lives of queer people across the world. As a gay White male living hundreds of miles from the horrific events, I was intimately connected with the aftermath through social media, blogs, and news reports. Through autoethnographic exploration of three distinct text-based digital conversations in the days following the massacre, I reflect on the ways that virtual and nonvirtual communication intra-acted to produce and mediate powerful emotional moments. As a performative work told in three(ish) acts, I contextualize these conversations in the fears, desires, and frustrations of my lived experience.

scholarly journals ‘Stranger Danger’ and the Gendered/Racialised Construction of Threats in Humanitarianism

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
Megan Daigle ◽  
Sarah Martin ◽  
Henri Myrttinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
White Male ◽  
Stranger Danger

Humanitarian, development and peacebuilding work has become increasingly dangerous in recent decades. The securitisation of aid has been critiqued, alongside the racialised and gendered dynamics of security provision for aid actors. What has received less attention is how a range of intersectional marginalisations – gender, racialisation, sexuality, nationality and disability – play out in constructions of security, danger and fear in aid deployments. Focusing on sexual harassment, abuse and violence as threats to safety and security, the article examines how in training and guidance for deployment to ‘the field’ (itself a problematically securitised notion), danger is projected onto sexualised and racialised ‘locals’, often overlooking the potentially far greater threat from colleagues. Here, we employ a review of security guidance, social media groups, interviews with aid staffers and reflections on our own experiences to explore how colonialist notions of security and ‘stranger danger’ play out in training. We argue that humanitarianism is still dominated by the romanticised figure of the white, male humanitarian worker – even if this problematic imaginary no longer reflects reality – and a space where those questioning exclusionary constructs of danger are quickly silenced and even ridiculed, even in the age of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter.

scholarly journals ICTs, Values and Social Change: The Case of Canadian Democracy

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 200-210
Author(s):  
Robert Rattle
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Federal Policy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Predictors Of Outcomes ◽  
Social Messages

Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) are revolutionising how people communicate and connect. While these have catalyzed calls for increasing societal change, social messages, not the technologies, motivate these actions. This paper will use the case study of Canada and the application of ICTs to argue why they are no less likely to support social change in modern economies than any previous technology. Drawing on examples of federal policy changes in Canada, the paper will argue ICTs and social media can be used to suppress democracy, undermine science and expand social impacts, even where they are intended to specifically address those problems. The paper will then discuss the roles of values in social change to argue that ICTs and social media are influenced by larger societal forces and that these are often better predictors of outcomes than the application of any one technology for social change.

The Role of Social Media Sites on Social Movements against Policy Changes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Picazo-Vela ◽  
R. Sandoval-Almazan ◽  
G. Puron-Cid ◽  
D. E. Luna-Reyes ◽  
L. F. Luna-Reyes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Policy Changes

The Wisconsin Spring After Two Gubernatorial Elections

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
Cecilia G. Manrique
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Electoral Outcomes ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Impact

Eight years have passed since the original Arab Spring in Tunisia took place in January 2011. It has been almost six years since the impact of the Wisconsin Spring on Scott Walker's attempts at policy changes in the state occurred. At that time, the effect of social media on public awareness and public participation in political events was considered new and innovative. Since then, Walker won a recall election and a re-election. He made a run for the Presidency and lost. In November 2018, Scott Walker was unseated in the gubernatorial race by Tony Evers. This chapter updates what has transpired since then and the impact of social media on the events in Wisconsin, determining whether social media impacted public opinion, political participation, and electoral outcomes in the state.

Resonating Bodies Online: Social Justice, Social Media, and Music Learning

2020 ◽  
pp. 547-567
Author(s):  
Joseph Michael Abramo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
White Male ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Democratic Practice

This chapter examines issues surrounding social justice in social media and music making. The first part of the chapter frames social media as holding the potential to enact democratic practice. Using the work of Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of “listening” and Peter Szendy’s concept of “arrangement,” the author explores how viral videos and their user-generated covers might be a form of communication and sharing of ideas. This is investigated particularly through the different iterations of the 2012 hit song and video “Call Me Maybe” and the ways users created and circulated parodies. The second part of the chapter undoes this sanguine reading of democracy through social media. It does this, first, by exploring how market forces of profit seeking work to intervene in this process. Through this exploration, the author notes how market forces form the desires and subjectivity of users so that practices that feel like expression of desires are urged on by market forces for the benefit of the market. Then, the chapter looks at how viral videos are constrained by identity politics, and it explores this through covers of Beyoncé’s “Formation,” particularly what happens when this song and video—which is an articulation of black feminist identity—were (mis)appropriated and covered by a white male. Finally, the author addresses the implications for music learning both in and out of school by borrowing from media literacy to develop what he deems “musical social media literacy.”

scholarly journals Social media commenters’ understanding of the antecedents of teacher-targeted bullying

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Corene de Wet
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Attribution Theory ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Media Research

This article reports on the findings of a small-scale, extant, qualitative social media research study on commenters’ understanding of the antecedents of teacher-targeted bullying. Comments on an article posted by Sarah Sorge (2013) on The Educator’s Room were used as data source. Guided by an ecological model and the attribution theory, the study identified victim and perpetrator attributes, colleagues’ indifference and unprofessionalism, school management’s lack of leadership and failure to address the problem, as well as socio-cultural factors and policy changes as antecedents of teacher-targeted bullying. It is argued that conventional teacher-learner power relations are flawed due to the unsupportive, even antagonistic attitudes of parents, colleagues, society at large, people in leadership positions and policy makers towards the victims of teacher-targeted bullying. It is concluded that, despite ethical dilemmas, the advent of the Internet and social media has created opportunities for researchers to use comments posted on the Internet as a data source to investigate teacher-targeted bullying.

Social Media and New Military Public Affairs Policies

2012 ◽  
pp. 174-195
Author(s):  
Kenneth L. Hacker
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The Military

This chapter explores the recent United States military policy changes regarding the use of social media by members of the services. It also discusses the use of these new policies for military public affairs. The chapter analyzes the policy changes in light of network theory in the studies of new media technologies and how users construct networks of influence by employing these new technologies. It is concluded that the military use of new media networking (NMN) is an effective way of both protecting the communication security of military information and optimizing the networking potential of the new media. It appears that the military can use its new social media policies to take advantage of NMN by generating news on their own sites, directing the public to more information, enhancing the morale of service members with families, and developing new methods of recruitment.

The ‘Social Justice Plot’ in learning, consuming, and (re)creating music on social media

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Michael Abramo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Music Education ◽  
White Male ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
Participatory Politics ◽  
Online Music

In this article, I outline what I call the ‘Social Justice Plot’ in online music-making and consumption. I suggest that some popular music follows a particular plot where social justice discourses of fighting against and triumphing against inequalities based on identity is used to form narratives and tension and release in music and other arts. In the participatory culture and participatory politics of social media, consumers of media circulate and comment on these songs as a way to perform their own social justice identities. To explicate this process, I primarily draw upon Beyoncé Knowles’s song ‘Formation’, a cover of the song by a white male artist, and commenters’ reactions on social media to this cover. Through this example, I suggest that this Social Justice Plot is the commodification of anti-oppression discourses for material and moral gain. I conclude with implications for music education research and practice.

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