scholarly journals Photography as a means of building personal identity in the space of social networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Elena A. Blagorodova ◽  
Anastasia Yu. Braerskaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Frame System ◽  
Recognition Success ◽  
Favorable Light

The paper examines the issue of self-determination in the context of social networks. The works of E. Erickson, I. Hoffman, Z. Bauman serve as its theoretical basis. Kimberly-Young's methods for determining the level of Internet addiction, as well as D. Russell and M. Ferguson's methods for determining the level of loneliness were chosen as its empirical base. In addition, the study involves a qualitative analysis of the profiles on the Instagram network. It showed that photographic content filling is used by modern users as a platform for constructing identities, where everyday life`s reflection is transformed, subject to a certain lifestyle (achieving recognition, success). Thus, we are dealing with a framed switched reality that intensively affects primary frame system of a social subject. Personal page of the account serves as a stage for displaying certain roles, demonstrating to the “Other” their life in terms of both significant events and routine everyday practices. The reality of everyday life embellished through photography becomes a means of gaining recognition which, in turn, is called to protect individual’s personality from feeling subjective loneliness and represent the illusion of achieving happiness and success in everyday activities. Based on theoretical and practical material, the authors came to the conclusion that “photographic reality” allows you to present your life in a favorable light and focus audience's attention on the happy sides of your everyday life, thereby gaining recognition from the “Other”.

scholarly journals A study of the daily life of modern teenagers: the presence in social networks as an integral component of communication

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.O. Koroleva
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Pilot Studies ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Integral Component ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Daily Ritual

The article introduces the methodologies of the study of the everyday life of modern teenagers whiсh can simultaneously be used to traceevents occurring in real and virtual space: “Online and offline diary" and "15 minutes". The data of pilot studies showed that the teenager’s online performance is mainly presented in a form of communication in social networks. We have discovered that the on- and offline convergence of space for growth is inseparable from respondents themselves. Through the active use of social networks, a modern teenager is able to be present in different socialenvironments simultaneously. Constant checking news and posts in social networks is a new, peculiar to teenage daily ritual. The so-called "red zones", where a teenager consciously waives the possibility of "escape" into a parallel reality, are linked to significant events in everyday life, while a feeling of boredom brings to life the compensation through "getting about" in virtual space

Labouring for Kashmir’s azadi: Ongoing violence and resistance in Maisuma, Srinagar

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
Sarbani Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Central Area ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

While much has been said about the historicity of the Kashmir conflict or about how individuals and communities have resisted occupation and demanded the right to self-determination, much less has been said about nature of everyday life under these conditions. This article offers a glimpse of life in the working-class neighbourhood of Maisuma, located in the central area of the city of Srinagar, and its engagement with the political movement for azadi (freedom). I argue that the predicament of ‘double interminability’ characterises life in Maisuma—the interminable violence by the state on the one hand and simultaneously the constant call of labouring for azadi by the movement on the other, since the terms of peace are unacceptable.

Morality at dinnertime: The sense of the Other as a practical accomplishment in family interaction

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Galatolo ◽  
Letizia Caronia
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Family Dinner ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
Powerful Means ◽  
Moral Dimensions

Since Garfinkel brought our attention to the moral order implied in everyday activities, studies on social interaction have described the practices through which members constitute the moral dimensions of everyday life. Drawing on Duranti’s notion of the ‘sense of the Other’, this article illustrates how mundane morality is presupposed and (re)constructed in the micro-order of everyday life. Examples of video-recorded family dinner interactions are discussed, adopting a conversation analytic approach. The analysis illustrates how the sense of the Other is made relevant by parents as an organizing principle of ongoing activities and ‘talked into being’ to manage ordinary tasks (e.g. pursuing synchronicity and distributing food). The analysis reveals that parents use siblings as a resource to embody the ‘generalized other’ and socialize children to take the other’s perspective. Our study contributes to demonstrating the relevance of looking at ordinary practices as powerful means through which members orient to a moral version of the world and treat it as a natural one.

scholarly journals Older Women’s Situated Identities: Positioning Analysis Applied to Stories about Everyday Experiences Dealing With Physical Functional Changes

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Makie Kawabata ◽  
Miya Narushima
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Social Encounters ◽  
Small Stories ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Positioning Analysis

Identities are not only constructed through coherent and unified stories about significant events but also formed within the interactions during everyday social encounters. Using positioning analysis, we explored how older women’s “small stories” from interviews can be used to identify their “situated selves” and how positioning analysis contributes to enhance our understandings about their experiences of physical functional changes. Positioning analysis helped us see how they continuously modify their positions to reconstruct their identities while they talk about everyday life. We should pay more attention to “small stories” about everyday activities as well as their coherent “big stories.”

Taste of Trust: Documenting Solidarity in Soviet Private Cookbooks, 1950–1980s

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-349
Author(s):  
Maria Pirogovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
Food Basket ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control ◽  
Everyday Knowledge

Taste of Trust: Documenting Solidarity in Soviet Private Cookbooks, 1950-1980s This paper investigates the problem of trust and solidarity as they were mirrored in private manuscripts on cooking and housekeeping, and traces the circulation of culinary information within specific social networks. Soviet handwritten cookbooks, though rooted in the nineteenth-century tradition, constituted a phenomenon in and of themselves. They maintained and transmitted everyday knowledge on cooking, which was perceived as being opposed to state-published cooking books and brochures. Gastronomical models represented by The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food and other culinary writings were beyond reach of an average Soviet citizen. On the one hand, this inaccessibility aroused huge scepticism; on the other hand, it invigorated «invisible cuisine» – an informal exchange of routine culinary skills that had aimed to accommodate official quasi-reality to the Soviet everyday life, and to reconcile a dream with a real food basket. Up until perestroika, private cookbooks functioned not only as a corpus of personal skills that could both compensate flaws of economics of shortage and control everyday life, but also an important tool of gender socialisation that could be used to support social prestige, create solidarity and reinforce social bonds.

scholarly journals ‘Intellectual Acid’:Cultural Resistance, Cultural Citizenship, and Emotional (Counter)Community in the Freewoman

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
M. Sage Milo
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Cultural Citizenship ◽  
The Other ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Cultural Resistance ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Main Ideas

This article explores the Freewoman’s relation to culture, as well as its role as a countercultural periodical — one that resisted hegemonic ideas and styles — and in the creation of an emotional (counter)community. It follows Raymond Williams’s understanding of culture as having two senses: one is ‘a whole way of life’ — everyday practices — the other arts and other creative endeavours. The Freewoman was cultivating a view of feminism as a way of life that encompassed both these meanings, as its editor, Dora Marsden, encouraged the expression of both traditional and novel perspectives, working to connect everyday life to a vision of a feminist, perhaps utopian, future. My focus here is on three main ideas of culture and community under Williams’s general framework of ‘culture’: cultural resistance and counterculture, cultural citizenship, and emotional countercommunity. These aspects of the Freewoman were central to its feminist politics, and I offer that attention to emotions and emotional communities can enrich our understanding of periodicals and their political workings.

Ordinary Ethics

2020 ◽  
pp. 96-119
Author(s):  
Veena Das
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Hard Cases

This chapter makes a case for ordinary ethics as distinct from normative ethics. Rather than assigning a separate domain for ethics with its own specialized vocabulary for moral life deployed by experts, this chapter argues that we could think of ethics as a spirit that suffuses everyday life, somewhat like logic, as it permeates everyday activities. Much discussion on ethics accords a centrality to moments of breakdown and to principles for making choices in hard cases. While there is a place in social life for occasions that demand a muscular definition of the good, the bad, and the righteous, an exclusive emphasis on such moments eclipses those other moments when moral sensibilities are displayed in quotidian acts of care and sustenance. While recognizing the importance of habit as the fly-wheel of society, the chapter argues that sedimentation of experience is only one aspect of habit, the other being the innovations and improvisations through which the particularity of the concrete other is recognized

scholarly journals Fronteiras em construção: representações de migrantes brasileiros na Guiana Francesa

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosiane Ferreira Martins ◽  
Carmem Izabel Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Nesse artigo examinamos como as migrações contribuem para re-arranjos das relações familiares e sociais, além da construção de novas identidades. Trata-se de uma reflexão acerca do mundo contemporâneo em uma análise sobre os sentidos de ser classificado como migrante e/ou estrangeiro, em um processo de construção de estratégias que marcam a vivência cotidiana. As relações entre migrantes de diferentes países, e a construção de espaços de sociabilidade marcados pela diversidade revelam identidades e percepções acerca das relações de conflito, solidariedades, alteridades entre o eu (clandestino) e o outro na cidade. Palavras-chave: Migrantes. Guiana Francesa. Representações sociais. In this article, we examine the way in which migratory flows contribute to a re-negotiation of family and social networks and to the construction of new identities. We embark on a reflection on the contemporary world and an analysis of meanings surrounding the process of being classified as a stranger-Other and the related strategies that mark processes of everyday life for migrants. The relationship between migrants from different countries and the related construction of spaces of sociability marked by diversity reveal identities and perceptions negotiated around relations of conflict, solidarity, and alterity between the clandestine I and the other in the city. Keywords: Migrants. French Guiana. Social representations.

Mental Contrasting of Future and Reality

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Oettingen ◽  
Doris Mayer ◽  
Babette Brinkmann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Brief Intervention ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metacognitive Strategy ◽  
Mental Contrasting ◽  
Low Expectations

Mental contrasting of a desired future with present reality leads to expectancy-dependent goal commitments, whereas focusing on the desired future only makes people commit to goals regardless of their high or low expectations for success. In the present brief intervention we randomly assigned middle-level managers (N = 52) to two conditions. Participants in one condition were taught to use mental contrasting regarding their everyday concerns, while participants in the other condition were taught to indulge. Two weeks later, participants in the mental-contrasting condition reported to have fared better in managing their time and decision making during everyday life than those in the indulging condition. By helping people to set expectancy-dependent goals, teaching the metacognitive strategy of mental contrasting can be a cost- and time-effective tool to help people manage the demands of their everyday life.

AFRICAN WOMEN AND FORBIDDEN GROUNDS: FEMALE SEXUALITY AND SELF-DETERMINATION IN AFRICAN LITERATURE

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Oyeh O. Otu
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
African Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
African Women ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Sexual Repression

This article examines how female conditioning and sexual repression affect the woman’s sense of self, womanhood, identity and her place in society. It argues that the woman’s body is at the core of the many sites of gender struggles/ politics. Accordingly, the woman’s body must be decolonised for her to attain true emancipation. On the one hand, this study identifies the grave consequences of sexual repression, how it robs women of their freedom to choose whom to love or marry, the freedom to seek legal redress against sexual abuse and terror, and how it hinders their quest for self-determination. On the other hand, it underscores the need to give women sexual freedom that must be respected and enforced by law for the overall good of society.

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