Transforming Precarity at International All-Grrl Jams

2018 ◽  
pp. 159-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Performance ◽  
Artistic Labor

This chapter considers the precarity of graffiti grrlz’ social and subcultural status. Graffiti subculture thrives on social relation; in this economy, aesthetics and peer recognition have value, but who gets to spend or accrue this value through their artistic labor differs based on gender conventions. Graffiti grrlz are vulnerable within this economy because their aesthetics and their bodies (thus, their peer recognition) are valued differently—often, their contributions do not “count.” By way of a comparative analysis of two annual, international all-grrl events—Ladie Killerz (Australia) and Femme Fierce (United Kingdom)—the chapter asks what the public collective performance of feminine identity markers does within spaces where heterosexist male masculinity is the valued convention. Through the strategic public performance of an undervalued gender identity, these “ladiez” and “femmes” claim their subcultural ownership, transform their precarious social belongings, and activate the social and political power of feminist collectivity.

scholarly journals Fracturing the Historical Continuity on Truth: Jotiba Phule in the Quest for Personhood of Shudras

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-46
Author(s):  
Snehashish Das
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art And Activism ◽  
Regular Flow ◽  
Historical Flow

Anti-caste traditions in India work to understand and examine the idea of personhood which the majority in India is deprived of by virtue of being born in the lower rungs of the caste hierarchy. This paper examines the historical continuity in Brahminism and the rupture Jotiba Phule presents to it through his art and activism which serves to disturb the regular flow of singular continuity of what is perceived as history and historiography. Jotiba’s quest is for finding the essence / personhood of, what Butler calls, a ‘precarious subject’ and recognizing that precarious subject – the Shudra, as a subject of history. But the personhood of this precarious subject is never a complete personhood. Therefore, Jotiba attempts to unveil the path towards achieving complete personhood which is embedded in reaffirming the lost or concealed truth – by discontinuing the historical flow of the social structure of caste and establishing a new subject rising out of crisis in social structure in history. I have chosen two works from Jotiba’s works as new methodological tools for history writing and historical criticism, and made hermeneutical and phenomenological readings of the both. The works are his poem Kulambin (a peasant woman), and the Satyashodhak (truth-seeker) marriage as the public performance of protest- as they are both - the essential and the mundane to his life, which exemplifies the truth Jotiba followed and established an organization Satyashodhak Samaj (Society of Truth Seekers) as a testament to it.

scholarly journals TDSRC: A Task-Distributing System of Crowdsourcing Based on Social Relation Cognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenlong Peng ◽  
Xiaolin Gui ◽  
Jian An ◽  
Ruowei Gui ◽  
Yali Ji
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
The Public ◽  
Trust Relationship ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
The Social

Crowdsourcing significantly augments the creativity of the public and has become an indispensable component of many problem-solving pipelines. The main challenge, however, is the effective identification of malicious participators while distributing crowdsourcing tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel task-distributing system named Task-Distributing system of crowdsourcing based on Social Relation Cognition (TDSRC) to select qualified participators. First, we divided the tasks into categories according to task themes. Then, we constructed and calculated the Abilities Set (AS), Abilities Values (AVs), and the Friends’ Abilities Matrix (FAM) by using the historical interactive texts between a given task publisher (requester) and its friends. When a requester distributes a task, TDSRC can generate the candidate participators’ sequence based on the task needs and FAM. Finally, the best-matched friends in the sequence are selected as the task receivers (solvers), thus producing a personal FAM to disseminate the tasks. The experimental results indicate that (1) the proposed system can accurately and effectively discover the requester’s friends’ abilities and select appropriate solvers and (2) the natural trust relationship in the social network reduces fraudsters and enhances the quality of crowdsourcing services.

The Catholic and the Communist Women's Press in Post-War Italy—An Analysis of Cronache and Noi Donne

Modern Italy ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Rothenberg
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women's Press ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Post War ◽  
Women's Role

This article aims to provide a systematic, comparative analysis of two of the main women's mass publications in order to trace continuities and changes in the development of women's role in the public sphere in Italy. The analysis begins with an elaboration of the social and political context, which is crucial for the understanding of media texts in general. It shows how the existence of only limited political spaces in post-war Italian society due to the polarisation of Catholicism and communism delayed both an open political discourse on women's conditions and the gradual development of an autonomous and lay feminist movement. Noi Donne of Union Donne Italiene (UDI) was closely aligned with and financed by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and lacked any substantial autonomy until the early 1970s, while Cronache of the Catholic women's organisation Centro Italiano Femminile (CIF) was a faithful instrument for the propagation of those Catholic concepts of femininity that were redefined and reinforced by the Vatican in the Catholic publication Civiltà Cattolica.

scholarly journals Performative trolling: Szubanski, Gillard, Dawson and the nature of the utterance

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Caroline Morrissey ◽  
Susan Yell
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Social Medium ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
Performative Utterance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Individual

In 2012 the Australian public witnessed three important examples of trolling play out in the public sphere that are the focus of this paper: the trolling of Julia Gillard’s Facebook page when she attempted to discuss education policy, the anonymous trolling of Charlotte Dawson’s Twitter page, and the trolling of Magda Szubanski on YouTube after she came out on The Project. These attacks may seem similar in that a public persona has been ridiculed and denigrated in flamboyant onslaughts. However, we will argue that there are important differences in the effects of these attacks, and that underpinning these are differences relating to the individual persona, the social medium and the nature of the utterance. The attacks on Gillard and Szubanski are primarily descriptive attacks on a deliberate and somewhat stage-managed public performance of identity, not a call to action. On the other hand, the anonymous trolling of Charlotte Dawson, which led directly to her attempted suicide, is clearly a performative utterance from the start, meant to have consequences on the object of attack. In Dawson’s case, the separation between her public persona and her private self is far less distinct than in the case of Gillard or Szubanski. These instances demonstrate that trolling exists on a performative continuum, engaging in constant disruption, but also lending itself to the production of social action. The kind of impact trolling will have depends, thus, on the affordances of social media, the persona under attack, and on the very nature of the utterance itself.

scholarly journals About the 1905 Petition by the Taurian mufti A. Karashaysky*

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 763-777
Author(s):  
I. K. Zagidullin
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

The article reveals the reasons and prerequisites of 1905 Additional Petition by the Taurian mufti A. Karashaysky on behalf of Muslims of the Crimean Peninsula that was addressed to the Chairman of the Minsters’ Committee and where he wrote about the expansion of the Taurian Mohammedan Spiritual Board’s competence and about the necessity of increasing the status of Islamic institutes. Providing comparative analysis between the Additional Petition and the Public Petition from Crimean Tatars the author allocates the general and specifi c matters of their contents. Thus, the research paper concludes that the Public Petition, via the values of liberal social movement, mostly declared the social, religious and spiritual needs of Crimean Tatars, while the petition prepared by the group of Muslims and clergy under the leadership of the Taurian mufti A. Karashaysky had strictly corporate, confessional orientation.

scholarly journals O budowaniu znaczeń w dyskursie prasowym w ujęciu komparatywnym – na przykładzie zamachów w Norwegii w 2011 roku

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 25-54
Author(s):  
Patrycja Chruściel ◽  
Inez Jasińska
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Similarities And Differences

About construction of meanings in the press discourse – the comparative approach, based on the example of Norway attacks in 2011The purpose of the article is to describe and analyse the meanings which the media construct in relation to real events ‘événement réel’ by the example of Anders Breivik’s attacks in Norway in 2011. The paper is a comparative analysis of the media productions in three countries – Poland, France and the United Kingdom. The authors use the French Linguistic Discourse Analysis FLAD methods to determine the keywords ‘mot vedette’ – the most common words or phrases naming the event – reconstruct referential paradigms ‘paradigme désignationnel’ – the lists of expressions that rephrase the keywords – and then deliberate their social meanings. The article textualizes similarities and differences of the social meanings of the event in different European countries and contemplates the collective memory of Europeans.

scholarly journals SRR-LGR: Local–Global Information-Reasoned Social Relation Recognition for Human-Oriented Observation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2038
Author(s):  
Linbo Qing ◽  
Lindong Li ◽  
Yuchen Wang ◽  
Yongqiang Cheng ◽  
Yonghong Peng
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
The Public ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scene Information ◽  
High Level

People’s interactions with each other form the social relations in society. Understanding human social relations in the public space is of great importance for supporting the public administrations. Recognizing social relations through visual data captured by remote sensing cameras is one of the most efficient ways to observe human interactions in a public space. Generally speaking, persons in the same scene tend to know each other, and the relations between person pairs are strongly correlated. The scene information in which people interact is also one of the important cues for social relation recognition (SRR). The existing works have not explored the correlations between the scene information and people’s interactions. The scene information has only been extracted on a simple level and high level semantic features to support social relation understanding are lacking. To address this issue, we propose a social relation structure-aware local–global model for SRR to exploit the high-level semantic global information of the scene where the social relation structure is explored. In our proposed model, the graph neural networks (GNNs) are employed to reason through the interactions (local information) between social relations and the global contextual information contained in the constructed scene-relation graph. Experiments demonstrate that our proposed local–global information-reasoned social relation recognition model (SRR-LGR) can reason through the local–global information. Further, the results of the final model show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. In addition, we have further discussed whether the global information contributes equally to different social relations in the same scene, by exploiting an attention mechanism in our proposed model. Further applications of SRR for human-observation are also exploited.

scholarly journals Persuasion Connotations at Macro-Social Level

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Maria-Lucia Rusu
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Methodological Aspect ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Level

Abstract This approach examines the comparative relationship between persuasion at micro and macro-social level, under the framework of the comparative analysis method. In this sense, after identifying and presenting the concept of persuasion, the similarity of interpretation and persuasion techniques are emphasized. The study first addresses the epistemological and methodological aspect of the social connotations of persuasion. It has as main objectives to ensure the interpretation of the concept, to identify the strategies, to describe the mechanisms by which the persuasion in the public space is reconstructed and to discover the methods of resistance to this type of communication. The usefulness of studying this type of communication results from the effects it has on the individual and its various inter-human relationships in the macro-social space.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document