‘I want to delete this tweet so much, but…’: Jameela Jamil as a celebrity feminist educator

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Kannen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Shame Culture ◽  
Body Acceptance ◽  
Queer Representation ◽  
Feminist Education ◽  
Education And Social Change

The ideas of outspoken feminist celebrities are met with scepticism. This scepticism is rooted in the idea that, while celebrities have a platform for expression, they are not academics and their role in education should therefore be limited. This article explores the role of Jameela Jamil, a British, queer actor, and analyses her use of Instagram and Twitter as platforms for education and social change. I argue that she uses social media to teach and learn from her followers regarding body acceptance, racial and sexual inclusivity and queer representation. This work also explores the realities of clapbacks, cancel culture, mistake-making, shame culture and affective solidarity via her use of language, such as through the vulnerable phrase ‘I want to delete this tweet so much, but…’. In positioning Jamil as more than simply a celebrity feminist, and beyond what is considered a normative public intellectual, I assert that she embodies the role of a celebrity feminist educator. This role is unique as it creates space for Jamil’s online feminist activism, her accessible use of language and her desire to teach and learn from her followers to be made meaningful within the context of feminist education and celebrity studies.

Corruption in the Public Eye

2014 ◽  
pp. 258-272
Author(s):  
Elitza Katzarova
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Negotiation Strategy ◽  
The Public ◽  
First Case ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Analytical Tools

What role is there for publicity in the global anti-corruption debate? This chapter introduces the concepts of “transparency” and “publicity” as analytical tools that account for differentiated channels through which the availability of information can induce social change. Two case studies provide insights into the role of traditional media in comparison to new social media. The first case analyzes the role of Western news coverage during the negotiations of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in the mid-1990s and the threat of publicity as a negotiation strategy. The second case investigates the role of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube in the success of the anti-corruption strike carried out by Indian social activist Anna Hazare in 2011. By introducing and further applying the conceptual toolkit of “transparency” and “publicity” to both cases, this chapter argues that transparency requires publicity or in the case of the OECD negotiations—the threat of publicity—in order for the anti-corruption campaign to be successful. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the ramifications for transparency and publicity as tools for social change.

scholarly journals Power of Social Networking Sites in Bringing Social Change on the part of Youth through Digital Activism

2021 ◽  
Vol volume 05 (issue 2) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Zowaina Azhar ◽  
Dr. Abdul Rehman Qaisar ◽  
Kanza Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Social Protests ◽  
Convenience Sampling

The study attempts to explain the role of social networking sites in bringing social change through youth. The study used cause and effect research design in order to determine how social networking sites are affecting the trend of social protests. Data was collected from different professions, occupations and educational institutions of Punjab, Pakistan, through a well-developed questionnaire. To conduct the study, a sample size of 300 respondents was chosen to get accurate findings. Convenience sampling was used where the respondents were selected according to their availability and ease from a sample size of 300 respondents was selected. The findings of the study revealed that social networking sites are playing a significant role in bringing social change in a society, especially through youth, ranging from 21 to 25 years of age. Males are showing greater support to these protests. Moreover, governments do not get much involved in issues through social media; rather they try to use traditional means of involvement. It was also concluded that people who believe that protesting through social media is non-violent, show greater support in favor of it.

Coloring social change: Humor, politics, and social movements

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-511
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Takovski
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
On Line ◽  
Present Case Study

AbstractAs many social movements demonstrate, humor can serve as an important resource to resist oppression, fight social injustice and bring social change. Existing research has focused on humor’s role within social movements and its positive effects on the free expression of criticism, reduction of fear, communication, mobilization of participants and so on. However, the current literature on the activist use of humor also expresses some reservations about its political efficacy. While humor may steam off the energy necessary to counteract oppression and injustice, other tools of achieving the same political ends have been successfully deployed, primarily social media. Building upon this research, the present case study explores the 2016 Macedonian social movement called the Colorful Revolution. In particular, through the analysis of social media and activists’ reflection on the political use of humor, this case study examines how on-line humor contributed to the emergence and development of the movement. Factoring in activists’ opinions on the role of humor in society and especially in movements, while also paying attention to the role of social media, this case study tends to re-interpret the role of humor in the totality of the actions and circumstances underpinning the development of a social movement.

Role of IT and Social Media in Democratic Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 294-319
Author(s):  
Anuradha Tiwari ◽  
Tarakeshwar Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Predictive Tool ◽  
Democratic Change ◽  
Tremendous Amount ◽  
Role Of It

In the last decade or so there have been plenty of innovations pertaining to information technology and social media that has taken place. This has brought in a tremendous amount of change in the society and the quality of life. The chapter explores the various aspect of change that has happened due to information technology and social media in a democratic setup. The chapter highlights how social change has occurred due to innovation in information technology and social media. This chapter explores how information technology and social media have supported the various elements of social change which have improved social wellbeing and quality of life such as education, healthcare, personal safety, transport, predictive tool, and the economics around social change.

scholarly journals Affect[ing] Bodies

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirkko Markula
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Third ◽  
Performative Pedagogy ◽  
Body Practices

This paper argues for a performative methodology that uses body's affect to create change in the current subjectivation to femininity. It locates this discussion into a context of fitness instruction to explore how a researcher can assume a role of a public intellectual through performative pedagogy. It is divided into four parts. The first part examines how critical pedagogy has been utilized previously within physical cultural studies to find ways to further understand how physical activity can be used for purposes of social change. The second part focuses on how physical education can inform critical body practices. The third part aims to link this discussion with feminist readings of critical pedagogy to further understand how femininity can be linked with practices of fitness instruction. It also introduces Deleuze's concept of affect. The final part discusses the implications of this literature for creating a performative pedagogy of the body through fitness instruction.

scholarly journals ComDev in the Mediatized World

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (Special-Issue) ◽  
pp. 229-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Hemer ◽  
Thomas Tufte
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Communication For Development ◽  
The One ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Media And Communication

Abstract In late 2011 we are in the beginning of a revolution that may or may not turn out to be more far-reaching than the one unleashed in 1989. A common denominator in this resurging revolution is the mobilizing power of the so-called social media. Even if labels such as the Twitter or Facebook revolution are rightfully refuted, the on-going Arab Spring is a clear-cut example of an unprecedented communication power, largely out of the authorities’ control. While the crucial role of media and communication in processes of social change at last becomes evident, it is however not associated with the field of communication for development and social change. While that field historically has been about developing prescriptive recipes of communication for some development, it is time attention is refocused to the deliberative, non-institutional change processes that are emerging from a citizens’ profound and often desperate reaction to the global now.

Corruption in the Public Eye

2015 ◽  
pp. 1229-1243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elitza Katzarova
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Negotiation Strategy ◽  
The Public ◽  
First Case ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Analytical Tools

What role is there for publicity in the global anti-corruption debate? This chapter introduces the concepts of “transparency” and “publicity” as analytical tools that account for differentiated channels through which the availability of information can induce social change. Two case studies provide insights into the role of traditional media in comparison to new social media. The first case analyzes the role of Western news coverage during the negotiations of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in the mid-1990s and the threat of publicity as a negotiation strategy. The second case investigates the role of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube in the success of the anti-corruption strike carried out by Indian social activist Anna Hazare in 2011. By introducing and further applying the conceptual toolkit of “transparency” and “publicity” to both cases, this chapter argues that transparency requires publicity or in the case of the OECD negotiations—the threat of publicity—in order for the anti-corruption campaign to be successful. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the ramifications for transparency and publicity as tools for social change.

Corruption in the Public Eye

2015 ◽  
pp. 1915-1929
Author(s):  
Elitza Katzarova
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Negotiation Strategy ◽  
The Public ◽  
First Case ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Analytical Tools

What role is there for publicity in the global anti-corruption debate? This chapter introduces the concepts of “transparency” and “publicity” as analytical tools that account for differentiated channels through which the availability of information can induce social change. Two case studies provide insights into the role of traditional media in comparison to new social media. The first case analyzes the role of Western news coverage during the negotiations of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in the mid-1990s and the threat of publicity as a negotiation strategy. The second case investigates the role of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube in the success of the anti-corruption strike carried out by Indian social activist Anna Hazare in 2011. By introducing and further applying the conceptual toolkit of “transparency” and “publicity” to both cases, this chapter argues that transparency requires publicity or in the case of the OECD negotiations—the threat of publicity—in order for the anti-corruption campaign to be successful. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the ramifications for transparency and publicity as tools for social change.

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