scholarly journals Demystifying immigrant youth representations : a look at mainstream and immigrant perspectives within literature and media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Natsu Kawahatsu
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
White Hegemony

Firstly, this paper analyses two mainstream films, Gran Torino and Entre les Murs (The Class) and looks at how depictions of immigrant youth are often negative and perpetuate stereotypes and racist ideologies. Through the lens of whiteness, I will argue that mainstream media plays an important role in maintaining white hegemony by othering people of colour, in particular, immigrant youth. Secondly, the paper analyses immigrant produced media and literary works and explores how they can offer powerful narratives that critique and analyze issues of social inequality. Utilizing Freire's idea of "conscientization", I contend that youth learn to raise awareness of oppressive conditions in their community and problematize those conditions within society. The counter-narratives that immigrant youth develop refute "othered" identities by moving the focus away from the white dominant voice.

scholarly journals Demystifying immigrant youth representations : a look at mainstream and immigrant perspectives within literature and media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Natsu Kawahatsu
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
White Hegemony

Firstly, this paper analyses two mainstream films, Gran Torino and Entre les Murs (The Class) and looks at how depictions of immigrant youth are often negative and perpetuate stereotypes and racist ideologies. Through the lens of whiteness, I will argue that mainstream media plays an important role in maintaining white hegemony by othering people of colour, in particular, immigrant youth. Secondly, the paper analyses immigrant produced media and literary works and explores how they can offer powerful narratives that critique and analyze issues of social inequality. Utilizing Freire's idea of "conscientization", I contend that youth learn to raise awareness of oppressive conditions in their community and problematize those conditions within society. The counter-narratives that immigrant youth develop refute "othered" identities by moving the focus away from the white dominant voice.

scholarly journals Changing the Narrative of Displacement in Africa: Counter-Narratives, Agency, and Dignity

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
Husseina Dinani
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Implicit Biases ◽  
Displacement Based ◽  
Student Discussion ◽  
Geographical Locations ◽  
Contemporary Context

This essay draws on the author’s experiences of teaching Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write about Africa” and select chapters from Ben Rawlence’s City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp in various undergraduate courses at University of Toronto Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. It makes the case for how these works enable instructors to disrupt the normative narrative of displacement based on the victim-perpetrator binary in mainstream media and humanitarian discourses and center the multidimensionality of displaced peoples across different eras and geographical locations. The essay discusses how each work offers students with strong counter-narratives to the dominant depoliticized and depersonalized accounts of dislocation in Africa by considering historical and contemporary context and foregrounding (displaced) Africans as humans that have agency and dignity. Additionally, the essay demonstrates how each work galvanizes students to identify and deconstruct their implicit biases, particularly when it comes to how they may have (unknowingly) contributed to the continuing portrayal of displaced Africans in victimizing ways. Through student discussion and coursework, the essay demonstrates how each work can empower students, who have themselves or have family members who previously experienced dislocation, to share their experiences and use them to build their own counter-narratives, in the process constructing an enriched archive of displacement that goes beyond the frameworks offered in course materials and that can be used to understand processes of displacement beyond the particular contexts discussed in the classroom. Keywords: African experiences, Agency, Displacement, Refugees, Dadaab,

Misogynoir in women’s sport media: race, nation, and diaspora in the representation of Naomi Osaka

2020 ◽  
pp. 016344372096091
Author(s):  
Sabrina Razack ◽  
Janelle Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Black Diaspora ◽  
Women's Sport ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Sport Media ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Asian Identity ◽  
Information And Communication

Overt and subtle misogynoir (anti-Black misogyny) pervade sport and sport media, as women in the Black diaspora are rarely in control of sporting regulations or their media representations. One recourse racialized athletes have at their disposal, however, is active resistance. This paper provides a textual analysis of the intolerable misogynoir aimed at tennis professional Naomi Osaka, and key moments in her media (mis)representations. Results revealed three main themes: (1) ongoing misogynoir and colorism of sport media and athlete sponsors; (2) racial, national and diaspora media (mis)representations; and (3) resistance to gendered racism through self-representation. After Osaka’s historic win at the 2018 US Open, narratives of her Japanese nationality and Asian identity became the story that rendered her Blackness invisible, and enabled her to be read against her opponent Serena Williams. Some information and communication technologies (ICTs), including social media, presented counter-narratives and a recognition of the mainstream media vilification and erasure of Black women. At times, ICTs disrupted racist dominant narratives, and counter-narratives of Osaka’s Blackness and position as part of the Haitian jaspora (diaspora) prevailed.

scholarly journals THE DOMINATION OF PATRIARCHISM IN INHERITANCE CUSTOMARY SYSTEMS

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Adhi Dwipayana ◽  
Nyoman Astawan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Public ◽  
Inheritance System

There are two objectives to be achieved by this study, first revealing the dominance of patriarchism in systems of inheritance. Secondly, revealing efforts to represent resistance to the customary systems of inheritance in literary works of Balinese cultural background. Theoretically, this research has an urgency for the development of literary discourse, while practically giving an understanding to the public about the attitude of inheritance issues in Bali. Theories of literary sociology and feminism are used as a basic foundation for analyzing the problems offered in this study. The main data sources of the research are two novels by Oka Rusmini, namely Tarian Bumi and Kenanga and two short stories by Putu Fajar Arcana, namely Sulasih and Wardani Marriage. After the data has been collected using the literature study method, then it is analyzed based on a descriptive qualitative method. The results show that the dominance of patriarchism in the adat system of inheritance has created social inequality. The customary inheritance system rules in literary works (Tarian Bumi, Kenanga, Sulasih, and Pernikahan Wardani) are monolithic, showing no partiality towards girls. Daughters who have “ninggal kedaton” (married) do not get a family “gunakaya” inheritance (gono gini). Efforts to resist patriarchal domination as represented in various literary works, starting with the character Luh Sadri, took repressive actions to sue for the distribution of inheritance, deceit, and be tough.

scholarly journals A clown, a political messiah or a punching bag? Rethinking the performative identity construction of celebrity through social media

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommy Tse ◽  
Vivienne Leung ◽  
Kimmy Cheng ◽  
Joey Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Online Audiences ◽  
A Site ◽  
Self Presentations ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Identity Production

In meeting the changing demands of authenticity and visibility in social media, performances of identity and connections are discussed to entail new sociotechnical labours and digital literacies. Research has looked into the construction and presentation of celebrity identities, in light of these developments, but has paid little attention on the celebrities’ experiences and perspectives, which is also due to the lack of willingness of industry insiders in this culturally sensitive business to be interviewed and genuinely talk about its problems. Twelve in-depth interviews with celebrities and entertainment industry practitioners were conducted between 2014 and 2015. Particularly, this article draws on the cases of two established celebrities in Hong Kong and China, and assesses how and why they were unable to actively construct and perform their preferred media identities, highlighting the blurring boundaries among traditional celebrities, micro-celebrities and ordinary people for their construction of online identities through social media, and also elucidating the opportunities and challenges posed by today’s evolving media environment. We argue that social media only superficially open up a site of counter-narratives for celebrities to resist the identities imposed on them by the mainstream media and online audiences. The interviewed celebrities’ contradictory experiences in their self-presentations in social media offer alternative angles to understanding the incoherent and unstable celebrity identity production processes, the blurring boundaries between celebrities and ordinary people through such processes as well as the celebrities’ capacity to reclaim control in asserting their ‘true’ selves.

Assessments of User Comments With “Alternative Views” as a Function of Media Trust

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Marlene Kunst
Keyword(s):  
Online Discussions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Argument Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Media Trust ◽  
Heuristic Information Processing

Abstract. Comments sections under news articles have become popular spaces for audience members to oppose the mainstream media’s perspective on political issues by expressing alternative views. This kind of challenge to mainstream discourses is a necessary element of proper deliberation. However, due to heuristic information processing and the public concern about disinformation online, readers of comments sections may be inherently skeptical about user comments that counter the views of mainstream media. Consequently, commenters with alternative views may participate in discussions from a position of disadvantage because their contributions are scrutinized particularly critically. Nevertheless, this effect has hitherto not been empirically established. To address this gap, a multifactorial, between-subjects experimental study ( N = 166) was conducted that investigated how participants assess the credibility and argument quality of media-dissonant user comments relative to media-congruent user comments. The findings revealed that media-dissonant user comments are, indeed, disadvantaged in online discussions, as they are assessed as less credible and more poorly argued than media-congruent user comments. Moreover, the findings showed that the higher the participants’ level of media trust, the worse the assessment of media-dissonant user comments relative to media-congruent user comments. Normative implications and avenues for future research are discussed.

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