Youth, trauma and memorialisation: The selfie as witnessing

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Second Person ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Memorial Sites ◽  
Cultural Shifts ◽  
The Way

There have recently been a series of high-profile media controversies around inappropriate selfies taken by young self-portraitists at trauma memorial sites. Popular media critiques propose that the selfie is a self-centred and disrespectful response to traumatic histories. In this article, I consider such selfies in light of cultural shifts in second-person witnessing. I propose that these selfies prompt a rethink for theorists of witnessing. What can we learn from these selfies regarding the ways that young people, mobile technologies and social media are impacting the way people may respond to communal traumas?

Towards Content-Dependent Social Media Platform Preference Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-47
Author(s):  
Parmeet Kaur ◽  
Shubhankar Gupta ◽  
Shubham Dhingra ◽  
Shreeya Sharma ◽  
Anuja Arora
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
The People ◽  
Regular Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

Social media is one of the major outcomes of progressive changes in the world of technology. The various social webs and mobile technologies have accelerated the rate at which information sharing is done, how relationships developed, and influences are held. Social media is increasingly being used by the people to help and shape the world's events and cultures with the ability to share pictures, ideas, events, etc. Further, it has transformed the way the authors interpret life and the way business is done. This article presents a decision system for selecting an appropriate social media platform (such as Facebook or Twitter) to post content with the objective to maximize the reachability of the post. The decision is made considering the domain or subject of the post and retrieving data associated with it from the web at regular time intervals. The retrieved data has been trained using logistics and K-NN regression to classify a particular instance of data and identify the platform which can provide the most reachability. The system also suggests keywords related to the topic of the post which has been mostly used in recent times.

scholarly journals Online Blaming and Intimate Partner Violence: A Content Analysis of Social Media Comments

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Whiting ◽  
Rachael Dansby Olufowote ◽  
Jaclyn Cravens-Pickens ◽  
Alyssa Banford Witting
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
High Profile

Social media has become a ubiquitous form of interacting and sharing information. However, comments on social media sites are often aggressive and contemptuous, especially when topics are controversial or politically charged. For example, discussion of intimate partner violence (IPV) tends to provoke strong reactions from outsiders, who make angry or blaming remarks about those involved. Although IPV is common, it has not been widely discussed in popular media until recent years when high-profile cases of abuse have come to light. In 2016, a celebrity accusation of domestic violence led to thousands of comments on social media, with outsiders weighing in about who was at fault and what should be done. This study involved a content analysis of 400 of these comments, with the intent of better understanding typical types of social media reactions to domestic violence accusations. Key themes included judgment and blame, with around 37% of commenters blaming the supposed victim in this case, while only 9% blamed the alleged perpetrator. The findings show how people comment about domestic violence and illustrate the contentious and often distorted nature of social media interactions. Implications for professionals and researchers are discussed.

scholarly journals “It’s Not Just Instagram Models”: Exploring the Gendered Political Potential of Young Women’s Instagram Use

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Sofia P. Caldeira
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Gender Representation ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Visual Cultures ◽  
Depth Interviews

With over one billion monthly users worldwide (Constine, 2018) and being embedded in the everyday lives of many young people, Instagram has become a common topic of discussion both in popular media and scholarly debates. As young women are amongst the predominant active users of Instagram (WeAreSocial, 2019) and the demographic stereotypically associated with online self-representation (Burns, 2015), Instagram carries an underlying gendered political potential. This is manifested through online political practices such as hashtag activism (Highfield, 2016), as well as through Instagram’s use of user-generated content to challenge existing politics of representation, broadening the scope of who is considered photographable (Tiidenberg, 2018). This article explores how this gendered political potential is understood by young women using Instagram. This research is based on 13 in-depth interviews with a theoretical sample of female ‘ordinary’ Instagram users (i.e., not celebrities or Insta-famous), aged 18–35. Our findings illustrate how the perception of political potential is grounded in the participants’ understanding of Instagram as an aesthetically-oriented platform (Manovich, 2017). Most participants recognised the potential for engaging in visibility politics (Whittier, 2017), representing a wider diversity of femininities often absent from popular media. However, this was seen as tempered by the co-existence of idealised beauty conventions and the politics of popularity within social media (Van Dijck & Poell, 2013). Furthermore, this political potential is accompanied by the possibility of receiving backlash or being dismissed as a slacktivist (Glenn, 2015). As Instagram becomes a central part of contemporary visual cultures, this article seeks to critically explore the nuanced ways in which young women’s everyday experiences of Instagram intersect with broader cultural and political questions of gender representation.

“Medium is the message” – Creating a University Image in the Time of Web 2.0

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Koszembar‑Wiklik
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

The starting point of the article is McLuhan’s statement that “medium is the message”. The way universities promote themselves in media is causing specific associations with recipients.  The university idea is changing, the requirement for entrepreneurship, the change in the way of the public universities funding, and the corporate approach to university force them to take action that will enable them to operate in a highly competitive market. The universities promote and build their image using mass media characteristic for business marketing, and at the same time, the media that reach young people – the social media.

scholarly journals Responses to the marginalisation of Roma young people in education in an age of austerity in the United Kingdom

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny van Krieken Robson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Young People ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
The Way

This chpater discusses team support for Roma young people who arrived in the United Kingdom as European Union migrants. Using participants’ voices reveals a negative discourse on Roma. Reflecting on the way frequent media representations of English Gypsies as the ‘other’ are experienced as discrimination, racism and are also circulated through social media. She argues dominant discourses establish, consolidate and implement power relationships in education settings, which constrain participation and responses to injustice. She focuses on the marginalisation of Roma young people positioning as ‘other’ or the ‘stranger’ or ‘vagabond’ where they are both unwelcome and feared.

scholarly journals Media społecznościowe w rękach młodych ludzi

1970 ◽  
pp. 247-262
Author(s):  
Ewelina Konieczna
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Media Change ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Vital Resource

Popular media culture has been a vital resource through which youth generations have defined themselves, their desires, and their hopes and dreams. This continues to be reflected in the dynamic ways that the youth are using digital media to shape their everyday lives. As a result, young people are constantly creative; they acquire new skills and make up groups and communities in the media culture. The purpose of the reflections in the article is a look at the media practices of young people and an attempt to find an answer to the question how the young generation uses social media for communication and participation in culture and how social media change media culture.

scholarly journals Great Expectations, Uncertain Futures. Urban and Online Encounters with Youth, Love and Marriage in Egypt

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Senni Jyrkiäinen ◽  
Victoria Bisset
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
The Way

For young Egyptians, the economic and social instability of recent years has led to a prolonged period of youth with marriage, a key life event, now occurring later in life. Although social media and greater access to higher education have created more opportunities for unmarried men and women to meet, and have at least in principle paved the way for young people to marry for love, in practice, issues such as a lack of financial means and the pressure for women to marry soon after graduation mean that such marriages remain the exception rather than the norm.

Asylum, immigration and anti-racism – an interview with Amal Azzudin

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-244
Author(s):  
Laura Penketh
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young People ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The Media ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

The fight against asylum and immigration policies and their punitive impact on young people and their families was given high-profile media and political attention when the 'Glasgow Girls' at Drumchapel High School campaigned against the detention of one of their school friends in 2005. Amal Azzudin played a key role in fighting for her friend to be released from detention and, in the process, engaged with teachers, other pupils at Drumchapel High School, politicians and the media, raising awareness of the way in which asylum seekers without leave to remain were being treated. The campaign was instrumental in challenging mainstream attitudes and assumptions, and informing policy debates. Amal, in this piece, discusses the campaign and her continuing commitment to fighting against racism and inequality in all areas of society. She offers an insight into the successes that can be achieved when groups come together to fight against oppression in all its forms.

Food Network’s food-career frenzy? An examination of students’ motivations to attend culinary school

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Whibbs ◽  
Mark Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Career Aspirations ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Food Network ◽  
Intention To Persist ◽  
Culinary School ◽  
Media Discourses

This research presents the findings of a year long study, undertaken between 2016 and 2017, seeking to understand the degree to which students are influenced to attend culinary school by food medias, social media, and the Food Network. The notion that food medias draw the majority of new cooks to the industry is often present in popular media discourses, although no data exists seeking to understand this relationship. This study reveals that food medias play a secondary or tertiary role in influencing students to register at culinary school, while also showing previously unknown patterns related to culinary students’ intention to persist with culinary careers. Nearly 40 percent of this sample do not intend to remain cooking professionally for greater than five years, and about 30 percent are “keeping other doors open” upon entry into culinary school. Although food celebrity certainly plays a role in awareness about culinary careers, intrinsic career aspirations are the most frequently reported motivation.

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