Beauty Regimens, Beauty Regimes

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-126
Author(s):  
Emily Raymundo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Market Making ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

AsianAmerican beauty videos on YouTube uniquely intersect with both domestic racial and economic schemas and the vicissitudes of the global beauty market, making them a unique archive of the operations of global neoliberalism as it articulates through social media and raced and gendered ideas about beauty, makeup, and self-care. Reading a series of Korean and Korean American YouTube makeup tutorials and beauty videos, I argue that these videos reveal a map of connectivities between seemingly disparate global economic and social structures. In particular, they reveal how two striking features of global neoliberalism—the centralizing of women as a global labor and consumer force and the “globalization” of capital as marked by the rise of capitalism in Asia—converge to remap and remake race and gender as global biopolitical schemas.

scholarly journals A Generational War Is Launched with The Birth of Ok Boomer in The Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Joon Lim ◽  
Jennifer Lemanski
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

This study examined recent virality of “Ok Boomer” in the United States. The term of Ok Boomer gained overnight momentum in the public sphere as the symbol of a generational war. While previous research has primarily examined racial and gender tensions, this study introduced a new phenomenon of the generational conflict between “Ok Boomers” and “Baby Boomers,” in which social media originated the term of Ok Boomer and traditional media diffused it with framed meaning. Diffusion of Innovation theory was used to better understand the path of how “Ok Boomer” as a catchphrase, hashtag, noun cluster or trend resulted in attracting a massive amount of media and public attention. Relying on Node XL, Google Trends, and Nexus Nexis for data gathering and analyses, this study categorized four themes for a word, or an idea as an innovation to be publicly acknowledged: collaboration of social media and traditional media, public figures’ involvement for debate; confrontational social issues, and media-framed agenda. In sum, this study argues the term of Ok Boomer symbolizes the advent of a generational war in society in line with the long-standing race and gender wars in the media coverage.

scholarly journals RACE AND GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING AMONG COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S780-S780
Author(s):  
Chanee D Fabius ◽  
Lauren J Parker ◽  
Roland J Thorpe Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Physical Functioning ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Formal Caregivers ◽  
Representative Study ◽  
Household Activities ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Prior work has demonstrated that there are race and gender disparities in the prevalence of need for assistance with tasks such as self-care, mobility, and household activities. Research has historically shown that older black Americans and women experience greater prevalence of physical functioning declines. It is unclear whether these differences persist among those receiving assistance. Using data from the 2015 National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), a nationally representative study of Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older, and after adjusting for covariates, black men received less assistance with self-care and mobility activities, and white and black women received more help with mobility and household activities, compared to white men. Findings are critical to advancing our understanding of the needs of vulnerable older adults receiving assistance. More research is needed to understand the implications of these differences on long-term services and supports provided by both informal and formal caregivers.

scholarly journals ‘I WILL DO EVERYthing That Am Asked’: Scambaiting, Digital Show-Space, and the Racial Violence of Social Media

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Imaging ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Visual Cultures

‘Trophy’ photographs of African men and women who pose holding signs, either naked or in outrageously bizarre outfits and positions, are prized memetic images produced by ‘scambaiters’. The unusual activities staged in these photographs and videos, such as men wearing bras, hitting each other in the face with fish, and pouring milk on each other’s heads, invite viewers to enjoy and speculate about their origins. Scambaiter trophy images originate in sites devoted to users who wish to deter would-be scammers and they circulate widely on image-boards where they are often reposted without their original context. This visual staging of the savage African digitally extends previous visual cultures of the primitive, showing how durable these have proven, despite our current ‘post-racial’ moment. Scambaiter trophy images extend colonialism’s show-space, rendering it even more powerful and far reaching, and allowing it to migrate freely into multiple contexts. This article argues for a new digital media archaeology that would investigate or acknowledge the conditions of racial coercion and enforced primitivism that gave rise to these digital imaging practice pictures. The author examines how sharing affordances on image boards and social media sites encourage users to unknowingly circulate abject images of race and gender.

scholarly journals Academic Voice in Scholarly Writing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garry Gray
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
Scholarly Writing ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Voice In Writing

Tensions across disciplines and methodologies over what constitutes appropriate academic voice in writing is far from arbitrary and instead is rooted in competing notions of epistemology, representation, and science. In this paper, I examine these tensions as well as address current issues affecting academic voice such as gender bias and the rise of social media. I begin by discussing reflexivity in research and then turn to the ways in which personal-reflexive voice has been hidden and revealed by academic writers. I also illustrate how the commercialization of academic science intersects with the use of distant-authoritative voice in sometimes corrupting ways. I examine variations in academic voice as they relate to issues of researcher emotion, class, race, and gender. Finally, I discuss the scientization of qualitative research and resulting increased interaction between scholars of varying epistemological positions which I argue can increase attention to the epistemological underpinnings of academic voice.

Can Literary Works Help to Memorialize Natural Disasters? Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aitor Ibarrola
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Official Records ◽  
Traumatic Impact

Although relatively little critical attention has been paid to the closing chapters of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, the representation of the 1928 cyclone that struck the Everglades in Florida can be seen to have left a profound—and traumatic—impact on both the relations among different human groups and the author’s narrative technique. Not only is the title of the book extracted from this section of the book, but faced with the “monstropolous beast” (239) of a Caribbean hurricane, the main characters of the novel realize that interracial attitudes and social structures begin to change shape and lose stability. This article shows that questions of class, race and gender rise in both structural and figurative importance in the closing chapters of the book, and that Hurston was genuinely committed to memorialize the losses and mental wounds of those who have generally been forgotten in official records.

Exploring the use of Humour, Vulgarity and Allegory in Social Media Discourses: The Case of Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kudzaiishe Peter Vanyoro ◽  
Kudakwashe Paul Vanyoro
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
South African ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
The South ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Media Discourses

This article unpacks notions of humour, vulgarity, and allegory in social media discourses during the trial of Oscar Pistorius by analysing the dynamic interactions between South Africa’s judicial system and multiple discourses on Facebook and Twitter. It explores whether social media, in this instance, provided a platform for citizen-led conversations on the South African judiciary’s legal processes. It proposes that where the “legacy media” were constrained in facilitating case-related public discussions, social media created an alternative sphere for citizens to engage with the South African justice system throughout the trial. The article examines the popular views that were posted on Facebook and Twitter during the trial. Using a Foucauldian approach and Achille Mbembe’s interpretation of the postcolony, the article argues that the trial of Oscar Pistorius can be used as a lens to examine the humorous, vulgar and allegoric views of South Africans towards the judicial system in the post-apartheid era. This is more so in a context where intersectional contestations of class, race, and gender exist within popular socio-political discourses of “rich white men’s justice” versus “poor black men’s justice.”

scholarly journals The Influence of Race and Gender on Receiving Assistance with Daily Activities among Older Americans

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chanee D Fabius ◽  
Lauren J Parker ◽  
Roland J Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Self Care ◽  
White Men ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Medicare Beneficiaries ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Background and Objectives Nearly 8.2 million of community-dwelling, older Medicare beneficiaries receive support from long-term services and supports (LTSS) with routine daily activities. Prior work demonstrates disability related disparities; however, it is unclear whether these patterns persist among LTSS recipients and across specific sets of activities. We examine race and gender differences in receiving help with self-care (e.g., eating), mobility (e.g., getting around the house), and household (e.g., shopping) activities in a nationally representative sample of community-dwelling Medicare Beneficiaries receiving LTSS. Research Design and Methods Cross-sectional analysis of 1,808 White and Black older adults receiving assistance with routine daily activities in the 2015 National Health and Aging Trends Study. Bivariate statistics were used to describe the sample and provide comparisons of characteristics by race and gender. Logistic regression models examined race and gender differences in receiving assistance with self-care, mobility, and household activities after adjusting for sociodemographic and health characteristics. Results Race and gender differences were observed across all sociodemographic and health characteristics, as well as for all forms of assistance. Relative to White men, Black men had lower odds of receiving help with self-care activities. White and black women had higher odds, and Black men had lower odds of getting help with mobility activities than White men. Black men, and White and Black women all had higher odds of receiving assistance with household tasks compared to White men. Discussion and Implications Our findings indicate that, despite prior evidence of disability related disparities, the receipt of help with self-care, mobility, and household activities varies by race and gender. Findings reveals several target areas for future research. Future work should examine the role of cultural and social preferences for care, as well as the appropriateness of help, as evidenced by health service use and changes in quality of life.

The Politics of Merely Following: Witnessing AIDS on Instagram

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482096138
Author(s):  
Hollis Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
And Gender ◽  
A Site

Using an illustrative sample of posts to an Instagram account devoted to commemorating lives lost to AIDS, this article articulates a less-than-intense form of engagement with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) politics on social media. Merely following particular accounts on social media networks enables an encounter with an Other that is shaped by the affordances of digital technologies and the specificities of particular platforms. A site of political engagement that is further contoured by hierarchies of sex, race, and gender, @theaidsmemorial offers evidence of user experiences that are less focused and intentional than those typically associated with progressive sexual politics. Nevertheless, the author argues that they are meaningful because of how they expose users to bodies, lives, and desires they may not encounter if not for social media.

scholarly journals Exceptional Injustice: Facebook as a Reflection of Race- and Gender-Based Narratives Following the Death of George Floyd

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Patricia J Dixon ◽  
Lauren Dundes
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Black And White ◽  
White Males ◽  
The Status ◽  
Exploratory Data ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
White College

Following the death of George Floyd, Facebook posts about the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) surged, creating the opportunity to examine reactions by race and sex. This study employed a two-part mixed methods approach beginning with an analysis of posts from a single college student’s Facebook newsfeed over a 12-week period, commencing on the date of George Floyd’s death (25 May 2020). A triangulation protocol enhanced exploratory observational–archival Facebook posts with qualitative data from 24 Black and White college students queried about their views of BLM and policing. The Facebook data revealed that White males, who were the least active in posting about BLM, were most likely to criticize BLM protests. They also believed incidents of police brutality were exceptions that tainted an otherwise commendable profession. In contrast, Black individuals commonly saw the case of George Floyd as consistent with a longstanding pattern of injustice that takes an emotional toll, and as an egregious exemplification of racism that calls for indictment of the status quo. The exploratory data in this article also illustrate how even for a cause célèbre, attention on Facebook ebbs over time. This phenomenon obscures the urgency of effecting change, especially for persons whose understanding of racism is influenced by its coverage on social media. The need to recognize the divergence of views—how they vary by sex and race and their connection to social media—remains critical for progress in determining the best steps forward in race relations and police reform.

Referral Patterns for Youths Identified at Risk for Suicide by Trained Gatekeepers

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Rodi ◽  
Lucas Godoy Garraza ◽  
Christine Walrath ◽  
Robert L. Stephens ◽  
D. Susanne Condron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Referral Patterns ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Lee Smith ◽  
Prevention Behavior ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
And Gender ◽  
To Receive

Background: In order to better understand the posttraining suicide prevention behavior of gatekeeper trainees, the present article examines the referral and service receipt patterns among gatekeeper-identified youths. Methods: Data for this study were drawn from 26 Garrett Lee Smith grantees funded between October 2005 and October 2009 who submitted data about the number, characteristics, and service access of identified youths. Results: The demographic characteristics of identified youths are not related to referral type or receipt. Furthermore, referral setting does not seem to be predictive of the type of referral. Demographic as well as other (nonrisk) characteristics of the youths are not key variables in determining identification or service receipt. Limitations: These data are not necessarily representative of all youths identified by gatekeepers represented in the dataset. The prevalence of risk among all members of the communities from which these data are drawn is unknown. Furthermore, these data likely disproportionately represent gatekeepers associated with systems that effectively track gatekeepers and youths. Conclusions: Gatekeepers appear to be identifying youth across settings, and those youths are being referred for services without regard for race and gender or the settings in which they are identified. Furthermore, youths that may be at highest risk may be more likely to receive those services.

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