scholarly journals Feeling Asian Together: Coping With #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512094822
Author(s):  
Crystal Abidin ◽  
Jing Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
East Asian ◽  
East Asians ◽  
Asian Community ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Mutual Care

Since the onset of COVID-19, incidents of racism and xenophobia have been occurring globally, especially toward people of East Asian appearance and descent. In response, this article investigates how an online Asian community has utilized social media to engage in cathartic expressions, mutual care, and discursive activism amid the rise of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during COVID-19. Specifically, we focus on the 1.7-million-strong Facebook group “Subtle Asian Traits” (SAT). Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the 1,200 new posts it publishes daily have swiftly pivoted to the everyday lived experiences of (diaspora) East Asians around the world. In this article, we reflect on our experiences as East Asian diaspora members on SAT and share our observations of meaning-making, identity-making, and community-making as East Asians collectively coping with COVID-19 aggression between January and May 2020.

scholarly journals Subtle Asian Traits and COVID-19

First Monday ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Abidin ◽  
Jing Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
East Asians ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Global North ◽  
Korean Film ◽  
Technological Affordances

This paper studies how members of Subtle Asian Traits (SAT), a massive Facebook group of over 1.8 million members, congregate and commiserate online over their growth pains and experiences as (diasporic) East Asians. Founded in September 2018 by a group of Asian-Australian teenagers ‘as a joke’, SAT members share ‘Asian positive’ stories, resources, and memes through an average of 1,200 new posts daily. Alongside global milestone events, such as the rise of K-pop in the Global North and Korean film Parasite’s unprecedented four awards at the Academy Awards, SAT has also evolved into a space to celebrate Asian excellence, tease out identity politics, and discuss issues of injustice. However, upon the onset of COVID-19, the posts on SAT have swiftly pivoted to the everyday lived experiences of (diaspora) East Asians around the world. In this paper, we reflect on our experiences as East Asian diaspora members on SAT, and share our observations of meaning-making, identity-making, and community-making as East Asians who are collectively coping with our cultural identities and with COVID-19 aggression. Specifically, we study how Asianness is negotiated, circulated, and commodified on SAT, and offer the concept of ‘platformed Asianness’ to understand how being Asian online is co-constructed by an international Asian diaspora, group admins, and the technological affordances of Facebook.

scholarly journals Design Principles of Early Stone Pagodas in Ancient Korean Architecture: Case Studies on the Stone Pagodas at Chŏngnimsa and Kamŭnsa Buddhist Temples

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juhwan Cha ◽  
Young Kim
Keyword(s):  
Design Principle ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Square Root ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
East Asians ◽  
Creative Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Korean Architecture ◽  
The Universe

Ancient books on East Asian mathematics introduced to the Korean Peninsula enrich our understanding of the arithmetic notions that mold the creative thought processes of the ancients. They believed that all objects in the universe could be composed of circles and squares and all items could be expressed in terms of geometrical profiles. Through the combination of circles and squares, the ancient East Asians expressed the order of the world and unraveled it mathematically. These principles are evident in the construction principles of early Korean stone pagodas. In particular, the square root of 2 (√2) is a very important number in the delineation represented in the consolidation of inscribed and circumscribed circles with squares. Further, the square root of 2 is applied as a design principle in the construction of the stone pagodas at the temples Chŏngnimsa and Kamŭnsa. This article demonstrates that the ancients on the continuous impact of the Jiuzhang Suanshu and the Zhoubi Suanshu constructed the pagodas complying with design principles based on the arithmetic and geometric proportional systems of √2 times, which are intended to adjust compositional proportions and the gradual decrease in length to shape the tripartite partition of the foundation, the pagoda body, and the finial in stone pagodas.

scholarly journals Self-Production through the Banal and the Fictive

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Ongoing Relationship ◽  
Self Production ◽  
Convergence Of Technologies

The self is performed through the banal of the everyday on social media. The banality of the everyday constitutes an integral part of our communication on digital platforms. Taking this as part of our performative lives in the digital economy, the paper looks at ways in which we co-produce the self through the banality of the everyday as well as a wider imagination and engagement with the world. These wider engagements are termed as ‘fictive' not because they are unreal but through a conceptual notion of how the self is performed and imagined through wider world events in digital platforms and screen cultures where convergence of technologies allow us to be constantly consumed through the screen as we live out our daily lives. The narration of our lives through the banal and the fictive constantly co-produces the self through a situated domesticity of the everyday and equally through the eventful. In the process it reveals our ongoing relationship with the screen as an orifice for the production of self and the construction of a social reality beyond our immediate domesticity.

scholarly journals My story in response to the stories of my patients’ experience of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a relational psychoanalytic approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zelda Gillian Knight
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Online Therapy ◽  
Consultation Room ◽  
The World ◽  
Psychoanalytic Approach ◽  
Patients Experience ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

The hallmark of being human is to tell stories. The stories told give meaning to the experience, and it is in telling stories about our experience, that we begin the process of meaning-making. Psychotherapy is storytelling, and in our consultation room we, as psychotherapists, listen to the tales told. This paper documents my story in response to some of the stories of my patients’ experience of the impact of the unprecedented impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. While there have been pandemics before, this pandemic is arguable unique because of social media and the number of people across the world who can share their experience. It is said that more than 4 billion people have self-isolated at home together at the same time as a collective humanity in response to their country’s lockdown rules. For psychotherapists, the shift to online therapy has allowed for a continuation of psychotherapy, and the telling of stories of COVID-19. Some of their stories are sad stories of loss and uncertainty. Some of their stories are more positive and inspiring. In this paper, three patients’ stories have been selected that illustrate both the positive and negative reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the conceptual framework is relational psychoanalytic with its focus on the dynamics of the intersubjective relationship, my story, as counter-transference reactions are incorporated.

Self and the Relationship with the Screen

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yasmin Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Ongoing Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Convergence Of Technologies

The self is performed through the banal of the everyday on social media. The banality of the everyday constitutes an integral part of our communication on digital platforms. Taking this as part of our performative lives in the digital economy, the paper looks at ways in which we co-produce the self through the banality of the everyday as well as a wider imagination and engagement with the world. These wider engagements are termed as ‘fictive' not because they are unreal but through a conceptual notion of how the self is performed and imagined through wider world events in digital platforms and screen cultures where convergence of technologies allow us to be constantly consumed through the screen as we live out our daily lives. The narration of our lives through the banal and the fictive constantly co-produces the self through a situated domesticity of the everyday and equally through the eventful. In the process it reveals our ongoing relationship with the screen as an orifice for the production of self and the construction of a social reality beyond our immediate domesticity.

Miley, What’s Good?

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aria S. Halliday
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
A Site

Images on popular social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter that are the most entertaining are loaded with memetic power because their value is based on cultural attitudes that already constitute our lives in the everyday. Focusing on memes appropriating the artwork from Nicki Minaj’s single, Anaconda, I explore how popular memetic culture is fueled by Black women’s creativity yet positions Black women’s bodies as the fodder for potent viral images on social media platforms and in everyday experiences; Black girlhoods, at this level of representation and in lived experiences, are rarely awarded the distinction from womanhood that many other girlhoods enjoy. Thus, Black feminist discourses of desire which speak to both girlhoods and womanhoods inform my argument that social media has become a site of reproduction and consumption—a technological auction block where Black women’s bodies, aesthetics, and experiences are vilified for viral enjoyment.

scholarly journals Watching Marginal Bodies: Representation of the Transgender Identity on Turkish Media

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Sertac Timur Demir
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Transgender Identity ◽  
Social Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

The world in which we live is seen, on the one hand as a global village in some sense and, on the other, as a divided geography. In other words, it is localized and ghettoized simultaneously. The everyday life that transforms rapidly and in an amorphous notion bears testimony to the rise of new identities and belongings as well as new opposition and disengagement. This dilemma generates new and different notion of tension and conflict. Body and gender are considerably significant paradigms in terms of showing and representing this sense of physical, mental and ideological separation; so much so that they change continuously in the shade of freedom and security deadlock. As for media, they do not merely capture but formalized the social events and collective facts. They manipulate the viewer perception and attitudes. From institutional and traditional to individual, digitalized and social media, they redefine the meaning of distant and ambivalent identities and design some clichés about them. That is why this paper is an attempt to describe the representation of marginal identities in Turkish media mainly through television channels, newspapers, internet and films that may stimulate the controversial relationship between normals and deviant and between insider and outsider. For this purpose, in this study, it is focused on the question of how Turkish media display and represent the transvestites.

scholarly journals May FB ka na ba? navigating students’ visit in social media networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1360-1372
Author(s):  
Nilda O. Babaran
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Sampling Strategy ◽  
Health It ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Networking Tool

Without a doubt, social media is the most influential networking tool on the world. This research demonstrates the influence of social media on people's life. It investigates how social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Messenger, Facebook, Linkiden, Multiply, and others manage and navigate the everyday lives of students who utilize these platforms for academic purposes. In the research, descriptive techniques are employed, and the sampling strategy is based on Slovin's Formula. Students were found to regularly use YouTube, Facebook, and other social networking sites. As a consequence, the networks were easy to use, as were the phones they utilized. They often utilize these services to fulfill the requirements of their friends as well as their scholastic responsibilities, enabling them to establish additional friends outside of their nation. Social networking sites, when utilized properly and in moderation, may be extremely helpful to children's scholastic growth and development. Excessive usage may result in addiction and be detrimental to one's health. It was highly recommended that, students could utilize extra educational networking sites such as research gate and google scholar, scribd, and sage to become more educationally oriented and meet academics and professionals in the aforementioned networks.

Why commit to a blog: welcome to sports & exercise medicine 2.0!

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
British Journal ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
Educational Benefits ◽  
Exercise Medicine ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Medicine 2.0

Social Media and blogs are increasingly used in the everyday life and also by scientists to share their work and communicate with colleagues all around the world. In addition, blogs are believed to be valuable educational tools. This article highlights, through examples taken from the blog of the ­British Journal of Sports Medicine, the educational benefits for students to commit to a blog.

A Cabinet of Moments: Collecting and Displaying Visual Content from WeChat

2017 ◽  
pp. 88-94
Author(s):  
Michelle Proksell ◽  
Gabriele de Seta
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
The Social ◽  
Vernacular Photography ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
Social Messaging

The Chinternet Archive is a collection of tens of thousands of digital images that artist Michelle Proksell has been collecting over years of everyday use of Chinese social messaging app WeChat. These images all come from public WeChat accounts that Michelle finds through a location-based function of the app called “People Nearby”. By regularly exploring the social media profiles of individuals in a one-kilometer radius from her geographical position, Michelle has been able to collect visual content shared by WeChat users in several Chinese cities as well as ten countries around the world. From filtered selfies to cheesy graphics, and from recurring themes of vernacular photography to emerging genres of postdigital aesthetics, the images collected in the Chinternet Archive offer precious and intimate insights into the everyday lives of Chinese digital media users. This essay introduces Michelle’s collection, presents various research projects and artworks through which the authors have made use of the archive, discusses the potentialities of working with visual content as well as the dangers of appropriating found images in the era of ubiquitous photography. Keywords: archive, China, found images, vernacular photography, WeChat

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