The power of things: The role of domestic objects in the presentation of self

1990 ◽  
pp. 341-368 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Presentation Of Self

scholarly journals Leptin promotes systemic lupus erythematosus by increasing autoantibody production and inhibiting immune regulation

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (38) ◽  
pp. 10637-10642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine V. Lourenço ◽  
Aijing Liu ◽  
Giuseppe Matarese ◽  
Antonio La Cava
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
T Cells ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Renal Disease ◽  
Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
Cellular Level ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Systemic Lupus ◽  
Autoantibody Production

Leptin is an adipocytokine that plays a key role in the modulation of immune responses and the development and maintenance of inflammation. Circulating levels of leptin are elevated in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, but it is not clear whether this association can reflect a direct influence of leptin on the propathogenic events that lead to SLE. To investigate this possibility, we compared the extent of susceptibility to SLE and lupus manifestations between leptin-deficient (ob/ob) and H2-matched leptin-sufficient (wild-type, WT) mice that had been treated with the lupus-inducing agent pristane. Leptin deficiency protected ob/ob mice from the development of autoantibodies and renal disease and increased the frequency of immunoregulatory T cells (Tregs) compared with leptin-sufficient WT mice. The role of leptin in the development of SLE was confirmed in the New Zealand Black (NZB) × New Zealand White (NZW)F1 (NZB/W) mouse model of spontaneous SLE, where elevated leptin levels correlated with disease manifestations and the administration of leptin accelerated development of autoantibodies and renal disease. Conversely, leptin antagonism delayed disease progression and increased survival of severely nephritic NZB/W mice. At the cellular level, leptin promoted effector T-cell responses and facilitated the presentation of self-antigens to T cells, whereas it inhibited the activity of regulatory CD4 T cells. The understanding of the role of leptin in modulating autoimmune responses in SLE can open possibilities of leptin-targeted therapeutic intervention in the disease.

scholarly journals Embodying entrepreneurial identity

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 438-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Kašperová ◽  
John Kitching
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
The Body ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Linguistic Practices ◽  
Absent Presence

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel conception of embodied entrepreneurial identity. Prior studies conceptualise identity primarily in terms of narrative or discourse. Critiquing the limited focus on linguistic practices, the authors build on the literature by highlighting the role of the non-linguistic. The implications for researching one particular group – entrepreneurs with impairments – are considered. Design/methodology/approach – Entrepreneurial identity is conceptualised as a unique constellation of concerns emergent from the embodied practices of agents committed to new venture creation and management. This new conception draws principally on the embodiment literature, Archer's identity framework and Goffman's ideas on the presentation of self, impression management and stigma. Findings – The entrepreneurial identity literature is underpinned by a number of problematic assumptions that limit understanding of the meaning, formation and influence of identity on action. The body is often an absent presence; it is presupposed, implicit or under-theorised as an influence on identity, producing a disembodied notion of the entrepreneur. Consequently, entrepreneurs are treated as an homogeneous group in terms of the embodied properties and powers, rather than as uniquely embodied individuals. Studies typically assume an able-bodied, as opposed to a differently abled, agent. Entrepreneurs with impairments are largely invisible in the literature as a result. Originality/value – The approach highlights the role of the body and embodied non-linguistic practices, such as movement, posture, gestures and facial expressions in the formation of identity. Recognising entrepreneurs as differently abled agents, possessing particular embodied properties and powers, is crucial for understanding identity and action.

scholarly journals Production of Gender: A Study on Performativity in Female-To-Male Transsexuals

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Tanu Priya ◽  
Dhishna Panniko
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Individual

Gender identity is critical to every individual; it is self-defined and yet affected by culture and society at large. Gender identities are formed through public and private spaces. Of the two traditions of thinking (essentialist and constructionist) about sex and gender, constructionist formulations are based on performance theory. It believes that sex and gender are viewed as not residing in the individual but are found in “those interactions that are socially constructed as gendered as opposed to essentialist tradition. Within performative theory, gender is a process rather than something naturally possessed. This study explores the process of formation of gender or social role in female-to-male (FTM) transsexual.  It will do so by exploring the factors that add to the formation of a gender role as seen through sartorial style, mannerisms, body language, and other aspects that influence one’s presentation of self. It includes the process of construction of FTM transsexual’s corporeality through performative attributes in order to approximate masculinity and come in accord with the social role of a man. The themes that are discussed in the analysis emerged after a careful reading of FTM autobiographical narratives. The instances are extracted from FTM autobiographical narratives; Becoming a Visible Man, The Testosterone Files, Both Sides now and the publication of these narratives range from 2005-2006.

Data literacies for the postdemographic social media self

First Monday ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony McCosker
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Continuous Production ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Social Data ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Media Practices

In a postdemographic world, characterized by the continuous production and calculation of social data in the form of likes, comments, shares, keywords, locations or hashtags, social media platforms are designed with techniques of market segmentation in mind. “Datafication” challenges the agency of participatory social media practices and traditional accounts of the presentation of self in the use of social media. In the process, a tension or paradox arises between the personal, curative or performative character of social media practices and the calculative design and commercial usefulness of platforms and apps. In this paper I interrogate this paradox, and explore the potential role of metrics and analytics for emergent data literacies. By drawing together common self-oriented metrics across dominant platforms, the paper emphasizes analytics targets around a) profile, b) activity, c) interactivity and d) visibility, as a step toward developing new data literacies.

Theatre and the Presidential Debates: the Role of Performance in Voter Choice

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Watson
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Presidential Debates ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Visual And Performing Arts ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Voter Choice ◽  
Performer Training

The fictionalized account in the recent film The Queen of Tony Blair's coaching of Her Majesty into a more voter-friendly response to the death of Princess Diana, largely through the medium of television, is a pertinent reminder of how the presentation of self on television subtly modifies the presentation of self in everyday life. In this article, Ian Watson considers how the now-ritualized debates between the main contenders in American presidential elections are stage-managed to enhance what their supporters suppose to be their candidate's most sympathetic features – supposedly learning the lessons of the first such debate, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, which displayed Nixon in such an unappealing light. However, what are ostensibly strengths or weaknesses may be read as quite other by an audience attuned to reading signifiers in film or television drama – or simply empathic towards what others perceive as failings, as in the case of reactions to George W. Bush's inarticulacies, awkward mannerisms, and failed jokes, which some read not as signs of ineptness but of an endearing humanity. Ian Watson, who is a Contributing Editor of New Theatre Quarterly, teaches at Rutgers University, Newark, where he is the Acting Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. He is author of Towards a Third Theatre: Eugenio Barba and the Odin Teatret (Routledge, 1993) and of Negotiating Cultures: Eugenio Barba and the Intercultural Debate (Manchester University Press, 2002). He edited Performer Training across Cultures (Routledge, 2001), and has published numerous articles on theatre in scholarly journals.

scholarly journals Restriction of non-coding elements in the thymus by Aire

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahan Mamoor
Keyword(s):  
Antisense Rna ◽  
Immunological Tolerance ◽  
Small Nuclear Rna ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Non Coding Rna ◽  
Nuclear Rna ◽  
Differential Gene ◽  
Medullary Epithelial Cells ◽  
Long Non Coding Rna

Aire is a unique transcriptional molecule that functions in immunological tolerance by promoting promiscuous expression of tissue-restricted genes. The expression of these otherwise tissue-restricted genes in the medullary epithelial cells of the thymus (mTECs) allows the presentation of self antigens to “teach” cells of the immune system what it means to be “self”. To understand the role of Aire in shaping the mTEC transcriptome, I performed global differential gene expression analysis of wild-type mTECs and mTECs deficient in Aire. I identified nineteen non-coding molecules whose expression were significantly modulated by the absence of Aire. These included pseudogenes, antisense RNA, small nucleolar and small nuclear RNA, and long non-coding RNA. This finding reveals that Aire controls the expression of both coding and non-coding genes, and further suggests that non-coding RNA might play a role in Aire’s instruction of immunological tolerance.

“Gazing” and “performing”: Travel photography and online self-presentation

2021 ◽  
pp. 146879762098578
Author(s):  
Kaylan C. Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Travel Photography ◽  
Self Presentations

This article illustrates the self-presentations young people foreground when they visually communicate international volunteer experiences to social media audiences. Through a “categorical-content” analysis of repeated semi-structured interviews and photographic content posted to Facebook, and with theoretical support from Urry’s “tourist gaze” and Goffman’s “presentation of self,” I describe three impressions “given” and “given off” within participants’ profiles. The findings reveal some familiar touristic scenes (necessitating tribute to the well-established “family” and “romantic” gazes) and also inspire a new gazing form (incorporating “gutsy” bodily experiences). However, these holiday-like portrayals were selectively disclosed and complicated by the sentiments participants expressed during face-to-face interviews. As different self-presentations were idealized in different settings, this article helps to elucidate the situational role of the audience and offers unique analytical insights that may not have emerged had I utilized one method in isolation. Its contribution is located within its intersections: blending gazing and performing frameworks, employing verbal and visual approaches, leading to etic and emic understandings.

scholarly journals Prevention of HIV and Other Sexually Transmissible Infections in Expatriates and Traveler Networks: Qualitative Study of Peer Interaction in an Online Forum (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Crawford ◽  
Bruce Maycock ◽  
Rochelle Tobin ◽  
Graham Brown ◽  
Roanna Lobo
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Sexually Transmissible Infections ◽  
Health Promoting

BACKGROUND In high-income countries such as Australia, an increasing proportion of HIV cases have been acquired overseas, including among expatriates and travelers. Australia’s national strategies have highlighted the need for public health interventions for priority populations. One approach is to expand efforts to places or spaces where expatriate communities reside. Online settings such as forums used by expatriates and travelers have potential for preventing sexually transmissible infections with those hard to reach through more traditional interventions. OBJECTIVE Our objectives were to (1) identify and describe domains of social interaction and engagement in 1 online forum used by Australian expatriates and travelers living or working in Thailand; and (2) make recommendations to health-promoting organizations and policy makers regarding the role of these forums in public health interventions with mobile populations who may be at risk of acquiring HIV or other sexually transmissible infections. METHODS We identified forums and users in 2 stages. We identified 13 online forums and analyzed them for inclusion criteria. We searched 1 forum that met the required criteria for users who met inclusion criteria (n=5). Discussion threads, rather than individual posts, were units of analysis. For each user, we collected as transcripts the first 100 posts and 10 most recent posts, including the thread in which they were posted. We analyzed and thematically coded each post (n=550). Transcripts and analyses were reviewed and refined by multiple members of the research team to improve rigor. Themes were not totally emergent but explored against symbolic interactionism concepts of presentation of self, meaning, and socialization. RESULTS Key domains were as follows: the forum (characteristics of the space and reasons for use), gaining access (forum hierarchy and rules), identity (presentation of self and role of language), advice, support, and information (sources of information, support provided, influencers, topics of discussion, and receptiveness to advice), and risk (expectations and perceptions). The forum exhibited evidence of unique language, rules and norms, and processes for managing conflict and key influencers. The forum was a substantial source of health information and advice provided to users via confirmation, reassurance, or affirmation of beliefs and experiences. Risk perception and expectations varied. Risk taking, including around sex, appeared to be a key expectation of travel or the experience of being an expatriate or traveler. CONCLUSIONS Australian expatriate and long-term traveler participation in the online forum formed, influenced, and reinforced knowledge, attitudes, interaction, and identity. Such forums can be used by policy makers and health-promoting organizations to provide supplementary sources of support and information to hard-to-reach mobile populations who may be at risk of acquiring HIV or other sexually transmissible infections. This will complement existing engagement with health professionals and other public health interventions.

Handbags and glad rags: preserving identity in dementia

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 219-225
Author(s):  
Maggie Parry-Hughes ◽  
Karen Harrison Dening
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Self And Identity ◽  
Diagnosis Of Dementia ◽  
Person With Dementia ◽  
Significant Factors

This article considers to what extent a person with dementia can maintain their sense of self and identity following diagnosis of dementia. The authors discuss identity in the context of dementia and illustrate this through the use of a hypothesised case study of a woman with a diagnosis of dementia. Theories and approaches that recognise and maintain identity and presentation of self, within the context of dress and accessories, and interactions with others, are discussed.Analysis of the related literature indicates that, given the necessary resources, people with dementia can live meaningful, purposeful lives, when supported to protect and preserve their identity.The environment and the role of ‘others’ are significant factors in maintaining the identity and individuality of a person with dementia.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor
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