Responding to #yogabody on Instagram

Screen Bodies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-125
Author(s):  
Bilge Gölge
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
New Era ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Late Modern

This article focuses on representations of the yoga body on social media, explaining what the female body in an asana pose stands for in consideration of the dichotomy between Foucault’s docile body controlled by the technology of power and Anita Seppä’s “aestheticization of the subject” as a means of resistance. While socio-technological changes have introduced a new context in the modern era, the dominance of seeing and visual culture has remained central in late-modern society. Through social media, we have entered a new era of constructing self-identity in relation to gender and the body. Looking into the relationship between asana practice and self-identity in postural yoga, I investigate the imaged bodies of yoginis that function under the control of power and as a technique for self-actualization. Drawing from a visual analysis of Instagram posts and interpreting the bodily practices of yoginis, I will search for what happened to modernity’s docile body in the context of this new media.

Iraqi media entrepreneurs across social media: Factors and challenges

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Omar Bali ◽  
Sherko Jabar ◽  
Hazhar Jalal ◽  
Mahdi Sofi-Karim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
International Media ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Firms ◽  
Media Market

Influenced by digital technologies, the cost of media production has considerably decreased, and the traditional media is faced with new agile, flexible and low-cost media entrepreneurs. This article examines the dynamics of the Iraqi media market transformation with an emphasis on factors that help to merge media entrepreneurs and digital media firms that target an audience on social media. A qualitative method was adopted in this study using open, in-depth interviews with nineteen media entrepreneurs and three managers of media firms. The study revealed that relative freedom and advanced communication technologies have encouraged media entrepreneurs to drive the new media on producing short videos and broadcast them on social media, which has become popular among media consumers. This new era in Iraqi media entrepreneurship has created an abstract space in which media entrepreneurs get involved in the media market, collaborate with international media and deliver values through the use of user-generated content and flexible journalism. This opportunity is shaped by three key interrelated factors: first, the relative freedom of journalism that resulted from the political environment, current regulations and advanced communication technologies that provide more space of freedom; second, the development of communication technologies that allow journalists and media entrepreneurs to employ the media market effectively; third, the emergence of media entrepreneurs themselves who are convinced to seize the opportunities presented by the two previous factors.

scholarly journals Society, Space and the Public Realm: Beyond Gated Individualism

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary P. Corcoran
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Third Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
Know How ◽  
The City ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Late Modern

A feature of late modern society is the economisation and privatisation of social life resulting in a decline in the public realm. Judt has observed that we are drifting toward a society of ‘gated individuals who do not know how to share public space to common advantage’ (2010: 216). Similarly Oldenburg (1989) has expressed concerns about the sustainability of third places – places that occupy the space between the marketplace, workplace and home place – in the modern era. He argues that ‘third places’ are being replaced by ‘non-places’ – places where individuals relate to each other purely in utilitarian terms. Non-places promote civil disaffiliation rather than civil integration. This article argues for an exploration of the ‘spaces of potential’ within the public realm of the city that can help to promote relationships of trust, respect and mutuality. Acknowledging and promoting such ‘spaces of potential’ amounts to a challenge to the privatisation and economisation of social life. Moreover, it creates the possibility of a reinvigorated public sphere and an enhancement of civil integration.

scholarly journals Emotional Imperatives of Late Modern Society and their Possible Social Consequences

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-45
Author(s):  
Olga Simonova
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sociology Of Emotions ◽  
Emotional Culture ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Emotional Norms ◽  
Late Modern

The purpose of this article is to examine the main “imperatives” of contemporary emotional culture, which may provide special research optics for a deeper understanding of late modern society. The author begins with a definition of emotional culture — based on the body of works in sociology of emotions — and identifies dominant emotional norms and their corresponding perceptions, which bear the nature of imperatives in people’s everyday experience and serve as an extension of social values. These emotional imperatives include rational control over emotions, a compulsive desire to be and look happy, avoiding negative feelings, individual guilt from any sort of failure in social life, grievance that takes the form of righteous indignation, and others. These “imperatives” are in some respect contradictory, reflecting different aspects of life, but generally subject to the logic of late modern society, and can have important implicit social consequences such as broken social ties, “chronic” feelings of depression and frustration, fatigue, bad moods, increased anxiety and fears and many other implicit consequences, such as the emergence of new forms of solidarity. As a result of global events and the resulting social crises, these imperatives may change, thereby allowing us to trace how people’s lived experiences are changing. The list of emotional imperatives is not by any means full, and the same goes for their description, but through the outlined emotional imperatives the author attempts to describe theoretically contemporary cultural configurations of lived experience through leading emotional norms.

The Meaning of Donghak Thinking in the Post-Modern Period

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Suksan Yoon ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
New Era ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Modern Era

The purpose of this paper is to study Donghak thought in relation to the idea of the current, post-modern era coming to an end. The concepts of “serving God within me” (sicheonju, 侍天主), “treating and respecting human beings as you would treat God” (sainyeocheon, 事人如天), “honoring the three” (samkyung, 三敬), and “Heaven eating Heaven” (icheonsigcheon, 以天食天), which are key to Donghak doctrine, will be examined. The meanings of “serving,” “treating and respecting,” and “harmony and balance” within the context of the aforementioned Donghak concepts will also be explored. In the present, post-modern period, humankind’s future is seen in a very negative way, with previous Utopian energies being considered exhausted. There are a multitude of “isms” and arguments in which reification and alienation within modern society are defined as omens of the end of this industrial era, which has corrupted and devastated human life. Today, religious movements are obliged to provide a spiritual drive that will lead their followers forward into a new era, establishing internal solidarity while associating with external elements. In this sense, the Donghak movement must put into practice the notions of “service, respect, and resuscitation” that are prominent in the ideologies behind the “serve God within me,” “treat and respect human beings as you would treat God,” “honor the three,” and “Heaven eats Heaven” concepts. In other words, in order to compete in the modern world, Donghak must concentrate on the belief that spiritual power can change society for the better.

scholarly journals Watching the dead speak: the role of the audience, imagination, and belief in late modern spiritualism

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Sarah Goldingay
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Performance Conditions ◽  
Late Modern

The performances of everyday experience take place in a variety of other locations, domestic and corporate, urban and rural. Moreover, the role of the audience, and the individuals within it, is not constant across all performances, nor is it fixed within discrete performances: it has an inherent potential for fluidity. This article considers the author's experience of this fluidity as a member of a late-modern audience during two performances of psychic mediumship. It describes them, drawing on narration provided by the author's field notes, and analyses them through theoretical discourses, provided by the discipline of performance studies. It goes on to consider how post-modern, or for the purpose of this paper, late-modern audiences, are connected to their modern antecedents. The term ‘late-modern’ is used as opposed to ‘post-modern’, because the paper sets out to explore contemporary society’s ongoing continuity with its past, rather than its disjuncture. A late-modern focus suggests a society that is a development of what has gone before rather than a reaction against it—as one aspect of post-modern theory might propose. And, with this connection in mind, the paper explores a preoccupation attributed to modern society, an emergent sense of self-identity and self-consciousness that was synchronic with the ‘golden age’ of spiritualism (1880–1914). It considers this modern self-awareness in relationship to an examination of the role of the late-modern audience at contemporary demonstrations of psychic mediumship. It focuses on how the performance conditions of these events stimulate the audience’s imagination and beliefs and consequently affect their sense of self.

scholarly journals KESENIAN DAN TEKNOLOGI DI ERA DISRUPSI (Studi Terhadap Akun Instagram Madihin @gazali_rumi)

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahmi Hartati ◽  
Najla Amaly
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
Society Today

Instagram is one of the most popular social media in the new media age community, including the people of Indonesia. Based on survey data released by the Indonesian Internet Service Providers Association (APJII) in 2016 there were 19.9 million Instagram accounts registered. Instagram not only uses the media to post pictures of daily activities, but already uses promotional facilities and to preserve the culture. Madihin is a culture originating from South Kalimantan. The @gazali_rumi account is an Instagram account that has Madihin art posts. Social media can be the latest innovation in preserving this traditional art, while social media has become a characteristic of modern society today.

Iraqi media entrepreneurs across social media: Factors and challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Ahmed Omar Bali ◽  
Sherko Jabar ◽  
Hazhar Jalal ◽  
Mahdi Sofi-Karim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
International Media ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Firms ◽  
Media Market

Influenced by digital technologies, the cost of media production has considerably decreased, and the traditional media is faced with new agile, flexible and low-cost media entrepreneurs. This article examines the dynamics of the Iraqi media market transformation with an emphasis on factors that help to merge media entrepreneurs and digital media firms that target an audience on social media. A qualitative method was adopted in this study using open, in-depth interviews with nineteen media entrepreneurs and three managers of media firms. The study revealed that relative freedom and advanced communication technologies have encouraged media entrepreneurs to drive the new media on producing short videos and broadcast them on social media, which has become popular among media consumers. This new era in Iraqi media entrepreneurship has created an abstract space in which media entrepreneurs get involved in the media market, collaborate with international media and deliver values through the use of user-generated content and flexible journalism. This opportunity is shaped by three key interrelated factors: first, the relative freedom of journalism that resulted from the political environment, current regulations and advanced communication technologies that provide more space of freedom; second, the development of communication technologies that allow journalists and media entrepreneurs to employ the media market effectively; third, the emergence of media entrepreneurs themselves who are convinced to seize the opportunities presented by the two previous factors.

scholarly journals INSTAGRAM DALAM PEMBENTUKAN IDENTITAS DIRI GENERASI Z

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 478
Author(s):  
Damas Rambatian Rakanda ◽  
Christina Rochayanti ◽  
Kurnia Arofah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Environmental Influences ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Search For Self ◽  
The Media ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Instagram now become one of the popular social media among teenagers this time. Teenagers use Instagram as a means to show self existence and social life. at age teenagers Is age where teenagers search for self identity. So that is Instagram become one of the media of teenagers distributing their creativity. The purpose of this research is explain the establishment of the identity virtual teenagers users instagram in the Cawas village through social media Instagram. The theory used is the theory Identity Manuel Castell, theory New Media and contruction identity. This study using a method of descriptive qualitative. The result of this study discovered that in upload photos on instagram teenagers have the concept that they were going to spend. Environmental influences around become one of the factors that affects of teenagers in forming the selft identity. One of indicator that shows existence of informan by the number of Like and Followers. The informants most inspired by the influencer in terms of fashion and to process photos. Most of the feeds instagram informants contains the photos of himself. Existence it is important for teenagers, especially in social media instagram. Teenagers will look at its existence, along with its existence in social media Instagram.

scholarly journals AKTUALISASI DIRI GENERASI Y DI INSTAGRAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Lenny Setyowati Bernadeta
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Gen Y ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Use Of Social Media

ABSTRACTNowadays, around us there are many teenagers who use social media as a means to actualize themselves, they are often referred to as Y Generation (Y Genes). Y Generation is the generation who was born in 1980 to 2000. The positive sides that they have a high self-confidence, strong in self-esteem, good in social networks, creative, multi-tasking, the generation who love the wireless world (Tulgan and Martin 2001, Beekman 2011). Through the technology, new media as a place for the generation of Y genes express themselves to gain recognition and self-existence they make use of social media, for example: their favorite is to take their picture by themselves (which famous as selfie in Indonesian) then upload them to social media, using social media such as instagram. The process of self-actualization by generation Y through social networking is done by displaying the profile photo, upload photos of their activities and write their status or feeling. The qualitative method was used in this research, self-presentation through dramaturgical theory. The techniques for collecting the data through: in-depth interviews with informants, observation, documentation and literature study. The researcher interviewed five person as the Y generation (3 female and 2 male), they were as students of Soegijapranata Catholic University in Semarang. Based on interviews the researcher concluded that the use of social media networking instagram for generation Y in actualize themselves was a positive activity, they displayed profile photos as attractive as possible, uploaded photos of individual activities as well as with the community, and wrote status as the fulfillment of the need for self-actualization and got a good impression on others. And this was appropriate with dramaturgy theory where people tend to show their positive side / front page to  others.Key words: Gen Y, Social Media, Self Actualization

Mother Nature and the nature of motherhood: Gestational surrogacy and ecospirituality as two postmodern forms of sacralization

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212096489
Author(s):  
Antonio Camorrino
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Third ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Gestational Surrogacy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Late Modern

In this article the author aims to highlight some similarities and differences between the contemporary imagery of motherhood and that of ecospirituality. Apart from apparent differences, both these imageries are based on a peculiar alliance with nature. Demonstrating why these phenomena have to be considered postmodern forms of sacralization is the goal of this article. For this purpose, the author first briefly reconstructs some socio-historical stages of the imagery of the body and how this has changed from Christian to contemporary societies. The second section analyses the concept of health, focusing on the changes that affect the idea of death. The third section identifies the main features of gestational surrogacy as a characteristic phenomenon of late modern society. In the fourth section, the author shows the postmodern nature of gestational surrogacy. The fifth section compares the imagery of gestational surrogacy to that of ecospirituality, detecting some differences and similarities. In the conclusion, through an approach close to the sociology of religion, the author suggests that both these phenomena respond to the same demand for meaning and they are the product of a radical change in the relationship between human being, nature and the sacred.

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