scholarly journals Image of deputies of regional parliaments in popular social networks: equality in the era of digitalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-68
Author(s):  
Anastasia Sizonenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Gender Specificity ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Age Profile ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Strong Woman

The article examines popular social networks from the standpoint of the gender specificity of the authors and the age profile of users with the aim of further qualitative consideration of the accounts of deputies the analysis of the accounts of the deputies of regional parliaments from a visual and linguistic discursive point of view in the era of the global trend for digitalization is carried out. In the course of the study, the main and gender features of the effective filling of accounts of social networks VKontakte, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Telegram are identified. The empirical basis for the study of the network image was the text and visual content of accounts, as well as threads of comments and user discussions in the accounts of the following regional deputies for the period September 2020 - February 2021. The analysis focuses on the gender specificity of the content of the studied accounts and the reaction of subscribers of both genders to various popular topics in the posts of MPs. For each of the selected social networks, the formed network image of the deputies is analyzed. Also, the article analyzes the gender specificity in the legislative bodies of power among the deputies of regional parliaments, fixes the tendencies of an increase in the number of women in power structures at the regional level. On the basis of the study, conclusions are drawn about the unequal ratio of the representation of women and men in legislative bodies, in contrast to foreign power structures. Gender specificity in the filling of accounts is noted: creation of the image of a “strong woman-deputy”; adherence to personal "family values" in the posts of male deputies. At the end of the article, the main conclusion is given about the low level of efficiency of communications of deputies in the Internet space on the most popular social platforms; recommendations are proposed for changing the indicators of the activity of deputies in social networks at the level of government and each individual deputy.

scholarly journals Transformaciones en las narrativas audiovisuales desde una perspectiva de género=Transformations in audiovisual narratives from a gender perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
M.ª Teresa Vera Balanza ◽  
Elia Saneleuterio ◽  
María Jesús Ruiz Muñoz ◽  
Daniele Leoz
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Gender Socialization ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Female Agency ◽  
Audiovisual Media ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Entornos Virtuales

<p><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>En el contexto de la cuarta ola del feminismo, caracterizada por una mayor visibilidad incentivada por el uso de los entornos virtuales y una más amplia participación digital, entendimos la posibilidad de hacer un llamamiento que sistematizara aportaciones varias en la profundización del análisis de las narrativas audiovisuales desde una perspectiva de género, pero también las nuevas estrategias y plataformas de representación, así como las herramientas del ciberactivismo y las prácticas comunicativas vinculadas a la movilización. Así, el entorno digital no tiene un carácter solamente instrumental sino sustancial contribuyendo a la transformación de las narrativas, de los discursos, de la capacidad de agencia; aunque también, y de la misma manera, de la difusión de discursos antifeministas y misóginos (Tortajada y Vera, 2021).</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This monograph brings together twenty-seven contributions that provide a plural and diverse view of audiovisual narratives. This gaze runs through the different audiovisual media starting with the cinema, a fundamental vehicle for gender socialization, television, VOD platforms and social networks. We have focused especially on the investigations that make visible the (under) representation of women in this field and the works spotlight on the analysis of the audiovisual narrative that contribute to making a balance and diagnosis of the current situation from the perspective of the “female agency”. The Open Tribune has fifteen contributions to the fields of knowledge of communication, digital culture and gender studies. Finally, the Reviews section presents five manuscripts of literary works.</p>

Women and Security - Contemporary Approaches And Issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-20
Author(s):  
Liliana Popescu
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
State Security ◽  
Is Security ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Istanbul Convention

The article discusses the contrasts between the traditional conception of security and feminist viewpoints on the issue. It presents the traditional realist viewpoint on security and discusses the representation of women in state security structures as well as their representation in international organizations. It briefly presents feminist criticisms of liberal origin concerning the lack of equal participation and representation in these power structures that affect everyone regardless of gender. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the discussion of the important issues raised by feminist perspectives on security and the specificity of feminist security studies. The widening of the security studies area is portrayed, as present in these writings: the overvaluation of the importance of state structures, in which women are underrepresented; the importance of expanding ‘security from the area of the state and applying it to communities; the decentering of dominant modes of knowledge (the “normal”); the inclusion of femininities, masculinities, and gender is security analyses; the importance of issues like #metoo international movement and the withdrawal of states in our region, East, South East and Central Europe, from the Istanbul Convention. The article concludes by asserting the importance of enhancing women solidarity in this region, including here the development of feminist security studies by applying it to common transborder issues.

scholarly journals Death, genre, and gender in the graphic novel 'I kill giants'

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Irena Jovanović
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Adolescent Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Heroic Narrative ◽  
And Gender

This paper analyzes the heroic narrative in the graphic novel for children and youth I Kill Giants. Since the central theme of the novel is the heroine's dealing with the loss of a parent, the analysis relies on recent research on the topic of death in children's and adolescent literature that emphasizes a close connection between this topic and gender representation/construction. Dealing with the death of loved ones and the awareness of the inevitability of one's own death in children's literature is often presented as part of the growing-up process in which heroines acquire knowledge about their position within social power structures. The paper focuses on the main structural elements of the heroic narrative, such as overcoming obstacles through action, triumphing over the enemy, perseverance, and commitment to the goal as the main features of the hero's character. From the point of view of feminist literary criticism, the paper aims to show that progressiveness in terms of gender construction, apart from the inclusion of a female character in the position of a hero, requires redefining most of the main structural elements of this predominantly male genre. These changes in the graphic novel I Kill Giants have undermined clear boundaries within the binary oppositions: male-female, private-public, civilized-wild, realistic-fantastic, rational-emotional, adult-child, showing significant possibilities for these types of interventions within the genre framework of the heroic narrative.

Speech Etiquette in Network Communication: Semantics and Pragmatics of Users’ Nominations

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-40
Author(s):  
Yulia M. Konyaeva ◽  
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Natalia A. Prokofeva ◽  
Ekaterina A. Shcheglova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Network Communication ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Common Interests

The article is devoted to the research of one of the most relevant aspects of etiquette in network communication–nominations participants of communication use to refer to each other. Based on a broad understanding of speech etiquette in social networks–as a means of harmonization of speech activity in various communication situations, the authors consider users’ nominations in social networks as markers of constructive or destructive verbal behavior in online communities. The research is based on linguistic and stylistic analysis, which allows: (1) describing the linguistic characteristics of nominations as lexical units in terms of word formation, grammar, and semantics; (2) revealing the peculiarities of the pragmatics of using the nominations in network communication taking into account the linguistic parameters of these nominations; (3) characterizing their stylistic properties that correlate with the goals of communication (common interests, problem solving, tips, causticity) and the selected manner of verbal behavior (solidarity, outrageous behavior, verbal aggression). To guarantee representativeness, the authors took the material for the research from resources created for groups with different principles of formation: gender (“Strana mam”), age (“4chan”) and territorial ones (“Yubileyniy Kvartal i Shuvalovsky”). The analysis shows that the users’ nominations in online communities demonstrate the participants’ solidarity within the relatively closed we-communities as the dominant setting of communication. Within each community, there is a focus on live communication, which activates the use of the phatic speech genres of everyday communication: appeal (generalized or personal), request, advice, comment, call, offer, insult, and so on. The variety of nominations from the point of view of the addressee (generalizing and personal), as well as in terms of communicative orientation (contactestablishing and contact-destroying), is determined by the set of situations of communication, frequent in different communities, and by communicants’ value orientations. In “Strana mam”, a women’s forum focused on the preservation of family values, solidarity is manifested in the desire for a more intimate communication; this activates the use of diminutives, language play, and vocabulary with a positive connotation. In the territorial “Yubileyniy Kvartal i Shuvalovsky” group, the value of community is cultivated, and solidarity is manifested in the imitation of respectful, often close to business, communication, which entails frequent generalizing nominations with a positive attributive component and the use of interlocutors’ full names as personal nominations. In the teenage “4chan” community, solidarity is manifested in the intentional outrageous communication (by using nominations with obscene words), which demonstrates an open violation of family, moral, spiritual, and other values.

Women in Russian Parliament

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 274-290
Author(s):  
Olga V. Kryshtanovskaya
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
Large Data ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Government ◽  
Women Participation

The article devoted to the role of women in contemporary authority in general and in parliamentary institutions in particular. The author also offers a concise excursus in history noting the interesting opposition of feminist and “women” organizations from the point of view of their participation in power structures and their relevant goals, as well as their representation in the government bodies and structures. On the basis of large data arrays the author studies the dynamics of women participation in representative and legislative bodies of the state power starting with the USSR Supreme Soviet and to the State Duma of all convocations and the Council of the Federation from 1993 and until present time, including the representation of women in the governing structures of both chambers of the Federal Assembly.

A managerial perspective on omnichannel e-customer

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Cuomo ◽  
Francesca Ceruti ◽  
Alice Mazzucchelli ◽  
Alex Giordano ◽  
Debora Tortora
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Commerce ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Offline Channels ◽  
Managerial Perspective

The actual omnichannel customer uses indifferently both online and offline channels to express himself through consumption, which increasingly blends personal, cultural and social dimensions. In this perspective social media and social networks are able to assist e-retailers in their effort of creating a total e-customer experience, especially in the tourism industry, trying to satisfy their clients from the relational and commercial point of view. By means of an empirical analysis where managers were interviewed on the topic and its degree of application in the firms, the paper underlines how from the managerial point of view, that represents a new prospect on the topic, the expected shift from e-commerce to social commerce paradigm, facilitating the selling and buying of products and services by using various internet features, is nowadays not completely understood and realized.

Possible Ways To Manage Personal Gender-Role Conflicts In Career Development

1970 ◽  
pp. 50-58
Author(s):  
Оксана Чуйко
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Family Counseling ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Role Conflicts ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
And Gender

The paper contributes to efforts to theoretically analyze possible psychological approaches personal gender-role conflict in career development, selected in terms of causes and peculiarities of its manifestation. We suggest considering such approaches at two levels – personal and orga­ni­zational ones. Personal level involves generating achievement motivation and psychological cri­teria for success; developing emotional competence; analyzing career and family values, identifying immediate life goals; analyzing family concepts; family counseling; psychological work with men aimed at maintaining parental identity; developing role competence; time management; psycho­logical analysis of individual gender identity and gender experience; challenging gender stereo­types. Organizational level includes developing family-friendly workplace culture, relying on gen­der-specific approach in staff coaching.

THE GENDER IMPLEMENTATION OF THE “POWER” FRAME IN SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDY “MACBETH”

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Ekaterina A. LOBANOVA
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Historical Text ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Linguistic Methods ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article studies the cognitive features of the “power” frame and its gender implementation in the historical tragedy by W. Shakespeare “Macbeth”. Here, the author examines the concepts of “frame” and “gender” in linguistics, studying different approaches to their definition. The relevance of this work is determined by the close attention of the contemporary linguistics to these concepts, as well as their place in the contemporary academic paradigm. The academic affirmation of the “frame” and “gender” concepts designates a new step in understanding the ways and peculiarities of the language interaction, consciousness, and culture, and, consequently, it shows new aspects of the relationship of linguistics with other sciences. Nevertheless, the problems of both frame and gender are not yet fully understood. This study allows describing in detail the essence of the frame “power” and showing its meaning, use, and ways of its gender implementation in fiction, which explains the novelty of this article. The study’s methodology is based on the cognitive-discursive analysis of the text, as well as on an integrative approach to the discourse study, which combines methods of both cognitive and gender linguistics, as well as the discourse analysis. Common research methods were used along with private linguistic methods. The application of cognitive-discursive analysis has significantly increased the depth of understanding of the “power” frame that dominates Shakespeare’s historical tragedy. This historical text presents the central theme of political tragedy: the overthrow of the rightful ruler and the usurpation of power. The motive for the seizure of power forms a thematic core and is presented from the usurpers’ point of view. In this article, the author observes the gender shift and duality of the female and male beginnings: Shakespeare puts the female protagonist, hungry for power, among men, thus the images of Lady Macbeth and her husband come into conflict with the gender characteristics attributed to them. The play clearly traces the main idea of Machiavellianism: the goal justifies the means. The results conclude that the “power” frame is the leading one in Lady Macbeth’s monologue, thus setting one of the main themes of this tragedy.

Navigating gender in elite bargains: Women's movements and the quest for inclusive peace in Colombia

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Alexandra Phelan ◽  
Jacqui True
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Bargaining Process ◽  
Political Bargaining ◽  
Significant Case ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Abstract A growing body of scholarship connects the participation of women and the inclusion of gender provisions to the sustainability of peace settlements. But how do women's groups navigate gender power structures and gendered forms of violence within complex and fragile political bargaining processes aimed at ending large-scale conflict? The 2016 Colombian peace agreement, internationally applauded for its inclusion of strong gender provisions and women's participation as negotiators and peace advocates, is a significant case for examining these questions. Drawing on original case material, including interviews of key actors on different sides of the conflict – this article analyses the political bargaining dynamics within and among women's movements, the Santos government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC). We argue that the inclusion of women was pivotal in transforming the elite bargaining process and power structures of Colombian society enabling a gender-based approach to the substantive peace agenda addressing transitional gender justice for sexual violence survivors and gender-equal redistribution through land and rural reform programmes. The study suggests that deeply situated political bargaining analysis is essential to navigating gender in elite bargains rather than a one-size-fits-all approach to inclusive peace.

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