scholarly journals Self-Production through the Banal and the Fictive

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Ibrahim

The self is performed through the banal of the everyday on social media. The banality of the everyday constitutes an integral part of our communication on digital platforms. Taking this as part of our performative lives in the digital economy, the paper looks at ways in which we co-produce the self through the banality of the everyday as well as a wider imagination and engagement with the world. These wider engagements are termed as ‘fictive' not because they are unreal but through a conceptual notion of how the self is performed and imagined through wider world events in digital platforms and screen cultures where convergence of technologies allow us to be constantly consumed through the screen as we live out our daily lives. The narration of our lives through the banal and the fictive constantly co-produces the self through a situated domesticity of the everyday and equally through the eventful. In the process it reveals our ongoing relationship with the screen as an orifice for the production of self and the construction of a social reality beyond our immediate domesticity.

Author(s):  
Yasmin Ibrahim

The self is performed through the banal of the everyday on social media. The banality of the everyday constitutes an integral part of our communication on digital platforms. Taking this as part of our performative lives in the digital economy, the paper looks at ways in which we co-produce the self through the banality of the everyday as well as a wider imagination and engagement with the world. These wider engagements are termed as ‘fictive' not because they are unreal but through a conceptual notion of how the self is performed and imagined through wider world events in digital platforms and screen cultures where convergence of technologies allow us to be constantly consumed through the screen as we live out our daily lives. The narration of our lives through the banal and the fictive constantly co-produces the self through a situated domesticity of the everyday and equally through the eventful. In the process it reveals our ongoing relationship with the screen as an orifice for the production of self and the construction of a social reality beyond our immediate domesticity.


Author(s):  
Zemfira K. Salamova ◽  

Social media has contributed to the spread of fashion, style or lifestyle blogging around the world. This study focuses on self-presentation strategies of Russian-speaking fashion bloggers. Its objects are Instagram accounts and YouTube channels of two Russian fashion bloggers: Alexander Rogov and Karina Nigay. The study also observes their appearances as guests in various interview shows on YouTube. Alexander Rogov received his initial fame through his television projects. Karina Nigay achieved popularity online on YouTube and Instagram, therefore she is a “pure” example of Internet celebritiy, whose rise to fame took place on the Internet. The article includes the following objectives 1) to study the self-branding of fashion bloggers on various online platforms; 2) to analyze the construction of fashion bloggers’ expert positions and its role in their personal brands. Turning to fashion blogging allows us to consider how its representatives build their personal brands and establish themselves as experts in the field of fashion and style in Russianlanguage social media.


2021 ◽  
pp. 089692052110441
Author(s):  
Eran Fisher

This article explores the ontology of personal knowledge that algorithms on digital media create by locating it on two axes: historical and theoretical. Digital platforms continue a long history of epistemic media—media forms and practices, which not only communicate knowledge, but also create knowledge. As epistemic media allowed a new way to know the world, they also facilitated a new way of knowing the self. This historical perspective also underscores a key difference of digital platforms from previous epistemic media: their exclusion of self-reflection from the creation of knowledge about the self. To evaluate the ramifications of that omission, I use Habermas’s theory of knowledge, which distinguishes critical knowledge from other types of knowledge, and sees it as corresponding with a human interest in emancipation. Critical knowledge about the self, as exemplified by psychoanalysis, must involve self-reflection. As the self gains critical knowledge, deciphering the conditions under which positivist and hermeneutic knowledges are valid, it is also able to transform them and expand its realm of freedom, or subjectivity. As digital media subverts this process by demoting self-reflection, it also undermines subjectivity.


Problemos ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 165-175
Author(s):  
Nerijus Milerius

Straipsnyje analizuojamas pramoginio apokalipsės kino ir kasdienybės santykis. Kinematografinius pasaulio pabaigos vaizdus ir kasdienybę įprasta traktuoti per jų tarpusavio opoziciją. Tačiau straipsnyje parodoma, jog tokia įprasta traktuotė yra smarkiai modifikuojama, jei domėn priimama kasdienybės  kontrfaktinių negatyvių galimybių sritis.Kaip argumentavo anglų teoretikas A. Giddensas, įprastoje kasdienių veiksmų, įvykių ir situacijų tėkmėje kontrfaktinės negatyvios galimybės yra suskliaustos ir užblokuotos, nes gresia kasdienio subjekto egzistencijai. Kad ir kokios, globalios ar lokalios, būtų kontrfaktinės galimybės – nuo Armagedono iki banalaus komiško eksceso, – jos neutralizuojamos kaip ardančios įprastos kasdienybės nustatytą tvarką.Apokalipsės kinas aktyvuoja suskliaustas kontrfaktines galimybes, bet kartu sukuria specifinį mechanizmą jas neutralizuoti. Taigi tai, kas kasdienybėje funkcionuoja savaime, beveik automatiškai, apokalipsės kine eksploatuojama intencionaliai. Kinematografiniame santykyje „matyti–būti matomam“žiūrovui suteikiama privilegijuota pozicija, leidžianti matyti, bet išlikti nematomam, nepaveiktam globalių destrukcijos vaizdų.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: apokalipsės kinas, kasdienybė, negatyvios kontrfaktinės galimybės.   Apocalypse Cinema as Counterfactual PhenomenonNerijus Milerius SummaryThe article deals with the relationship of apocalypse cinema genre to the everyday. Usually cinematic images of the end of the world and the routine everyday are treated through the prism of their mutual opposition. It is argued, however, that such interpretation should be essentially modified, by taking into account the realm of the negative counterfactual possibilities of the everyday.As Anthony Giddens has put it, in the habitual flow of everyday actions, events and situations, counterfactual negative possibilities are bracketed out and blocked, since negative counterfactual world threatens the self-identity of the everyday subject. All the counterfactual possibilities, irrespective to theirlocal or global character, small misunderstandings or Armageddon, are neutralized as something that destroys the pre-established everyday order. Apocalypse cinema activates bracketed counterfactual possibilities but also creates the special mechanism to neutralize them. Procedure, which functions in the ordinary everyday automatically, is created intentionally in the apocalypse cinema. In the cinematic relationship “to see – to be seen”, a spectatoris given the privileged position that allows him/her to see, but remain unseen, not affected by the images of the global destruction.Key words: apocalypse movie, the everyday, negative counterfactual possibilities.  


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Lisnawati Lisnawati ◽  
Dadi Mulyadi Nugraha ◽  
Supriyono .

 Technology is getting more advanced and developing, it is undeniable that social media can affect a person's life, as well as the lives of teenagers. Even for the community, especially teenagers whose daily lives use social media, it seems as if there is no day without using social media. This research is included in research that uses data collection techniques by filling out a questionnaire or questionnaire, using 10 respondents through the media Google Form and the WathsApp application. Knowing the influence of social media on youth morale in the Covid-19 situation is the aim of the research conducted in this article. The disease, which was first discovered in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, has spread in various regions of the world, the virus or disease is called Covid-19. Viruses that cause disruption of human activities, such as schools, offices, and others.  Teknologi semakin maju dan semakin berkembang, tidak dapat dipungkiri bahwa media sosial dapat mempengaruhi kehidupan seseorang, begitupun dengan kehidupan remaja. Bahkan bagi masyarakat, khususnya remaja yang kehidupan sehari-harinya menggunakan media sosial, seolah-olah tiada hari tanpa menggunakan media sosial. Penelitian ini termasuk dalam penelitian yang menggunakan teknik mengumpulkan data dengan mengisi angket atau kuisioner, dengan menggunakan 10 orang responden melalui media Google Form dan aplikasi WathsApp. Mengetahui pengaruh media sosial terhadap moral remaja pada situasi Covid-19 merupakan tujuan dari penelitian yang dilakukan pada artikel ini. Penyakit yang pertama kali ditemukan pada bulan Desember 2019 di Wuhan, China telah menyebar di berbagai daerah di dunia, virus atau penyakit itu disebut Covid-19. Virus yang menyebabkan aktivitas manusia terganggu, seperti sekolah, kantor, dan lainnya.  


Author(s):  
Marissa Grace Willcox ◽  
Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody

Digital community making through a live entanglement of the self and social media, offers up new pathways for thinking through human and nonhuman divides. Queer activism and feminist art on Instagram has made way for a reframing of what constitutes a ‘digital community’ (boyd 2011, Baym 2015, Oakley 2018). This paper thinks through the materiality of this feminist activist art community through the method of ‘Instagram live interviewing’. Drawing from a larger project that aims to understand the ways activist art practice on Instagram subverts heterosexual norms and patriarchal representation, we argue that the ‘live’ nature (Back, 2012) of the Instagram live interview (Hickey-Moody and Willcox, 2019) mobilizes a new type of queer materiality. By applying Karen Barad’s (2007) feminist new materialist theory of ‘intra-action’ to Rosi Braidotti's thinking about posthuman experience as intra-acting with aspects of the world that she classifys as non-human (2013), we reconceptualize some of the literature around digital community making to account for the needs of those often left out of heteronormative and mainstream narratives. This entanglement of liveness and intra-action in our methodology explores the feeling of ‘community’ as being a feeling that is central to human subjectivity and experience. Through a lens of queer materiality, we suggest that community can therefore be produced by more-than-human assemblages, and argue that a more nuanced account of digital community making which accounts for live Instagram intra-actions, and human to nonhuman relationality is needed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Nguyen Trung Kien

Care of the self, according to Michel Foucault, is the practice of coming back to one’s soul and construct the truth of self. While in ancient times, people cared for themselves by writing in hupomnemata, in our modern times, we use social network sites (SNSs) or social media. These digital platforms have provided users with many technological advantages to conduct the online care of self. Sharing a post, posting a status, tweeting a photo or video, replying to a friend’s comments, or revising stories stored in their virtual timeline is one of many self-care acts in a virtual space. However, these advantages of digital technologies accompany with the challenges of losing freedom or being supervized by algorithms whenever individuals engage in social media. This paper tries to answer the question that how modern practices of hupomnemata and care for self, are supported and manipulated by social media’s algorithms. The paper is expected to contribute a new understanding of the self and care for the self in contemporary social media engagement.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-205
Author(s):  
Agim Poshka

This article aims to refl ect on the increasing momentum that social media have in the everyday life our students and to investigate the uniqueness that this media offers to the process of education. The study investigates the benefi ts that Facebook and Twitter have as the leading technologically mediated spaces and its application to the learning habitat of the learner in the public pedagogy. The article refl ects on the opportunities that social media offers in order to avoid the self-created intellectual chamber by allowing educators to share and challenge ideas and concepts through the so called non-traditional “great spare time revolution”.


2021 ◽  
pp. 35-56
Author(s):  
Jennifer McClearen

Chapter one establishes the organizational context that facilitated the integration of diverse female athletes into the UFC brand. A “millennial sports media brand,” such as the UFC, deploys branding and marketing strategies characteristic of the millennial generation while simultaneously courting fans from this same demographic. In fact, the UFC might have faded into obscurity in the mid-2000s had the brand not begun experimenting with digital platforms and social media. The UFC enthusiastically embraced digital media, began actively seeking global audience demographics by representing fighters from around the world, and integrated a “we are all fighters” brand maxim, an ethos that understands diversity as something every fighter and fan possesses. Each of these approaches combine to create a millennial sports media brand ready to promote and exploit diverse female athletes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 3872
Author(s):  
Jose Moreno Ortega ◽  
Juan Bernabé-Moreno

The massive impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has left no one indifferent, becoming an unprecedented challenge. The use of protections such as sanitary masks has become increasingly common, restrictions in our daily lives, such as social distancing or confinements, have had serious consequences on the economy and our welfare state. Although the measures imposed throughout the world follow the same pattern, they have been applied with different criteria depending on the country. Over extended periods of time, people tend to change their perception of an event and its magnitude, or in other words, they stop being so concerned despite the seriousness of the matter. In this paper, we introduce a new metric to quantify the degree of emotional concern of people being affected by a topic, and we confirm how populations from different countries follow this trend of downplaying the effect of the pandemic and reach a state of indifference. To do this, we propose a method to analyze the social media stream over time extracting the different emotional states from the Russel Circumplex plane and computing the shifting created by the tragic event—the pandemic. We complete this metric by incorporating searching behavior to reflect not only push contents but also pull inquiries. The resulting metric establishes a relationship between the pandemic and the emotional response by defining the degree of Emotional Concern. Although the method can be applied to any location with a significant and varied amount of geo-localized social media streams, the scope of this paper covers the most representative cities in Europe.


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