scholarly journals Keeping cool, staying virtuous: Social media and the composite habitus of young Muslim women in Copenhagen

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (58) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Waltorp
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Hysteresis Effect ◽  
The Self ◽  
Housing Area ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
And Gender

This article builds on long-term anthropological fieldwork among young Muslim women in a social housing area in Copenhagen. It explores how morality, modesty, and gender- and generational relations become reconfigured in the ways in which young women use the Smartphone and social media to navigate their everyday lives. I focus on love and marriage, the imperatives of appearing cool among peers, and keeping the family’s honour intact through the display of virtuous behaviour. Building on Bourdieu’s writings on the split habitus, I introduce the term composite habitus, as it underscores the aspect of a habitus that is split between (sometimes contradictory) composite parts. The composite habitus of the young women is more than a hysteresis effect (where disposition and field are in mismatch and the habitus misfires), as the composite habitus also opens up to a range of possible strategies. I present examples of how intimate and secret uses of Smartphones have played out and show how social media have allowed for multiple versions of the self through managing public and secret relationships locally and across long distances.

The 2012 Presidential Election and What It Reveals about Mexican Voters

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
RODERIC AI CAMP
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Partido Revolucionario Institucional ◽  
Significant Patterns ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThe 2012 presidential election in Mexico is significant for many reasons, not least of which is that it returned the Partido Revolucionario Institucional to power after two Partido Acción Nacional administrations. This essay reviews more than 50 surveys taken before and during the election to determine significant patterns among Mexican voters, comparing the most influential traditional and non-traditional demographic variables, as well as other variables such as partisanship and policy issues in this election, with those of the two previous presidential races. It also analyses other influential variables in the 2012 presidential race, including social media and the application of new electoral legislation. It identifies significant differences and similarities among voters today in contrast to the two prior elections, and suggests long-term patterns among Mexican voters which are likely to influence voting behaviour in future elections, ranging from regionalism and gender to partisanship and social media.

Commerce, piety and politics: Indonesian young Muslim women’s groups as religious influencers

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 2140-2159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annisa R Beta
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Gender Regime ◽  
Women’S Groups

The article discusses the indiscernibility of social-media-based young Muslim women’s groups’ (YMWGs) transformative roles in socio-political analysis, standing in contrast to the groups’ visibility in Indonesian young women’s everyday lives. How does the (in)visibility of the YMWGs reconfigure the (political) subjectivity of Muslim womanhood? How should we understand the influence of this form of ‘women’s movement’ in the re-invention of Muslim identity? This article proposes the notion of ‘social media religious influencer’ to understand the groups’ conflation of religious, political and commercial elements in their online and offline representations and their encouragement to their followers to do self-transformation. The article demonstrates how, although such creative conflation challenges prevailing ideas about young Muslim women, it requires the young women to remain and take part in the prevailing gender regime by maintaining female conformity.

Examining social media peer support and improving psychosocial outcomes for young women with breast cancer.

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (28_suppl) ◽  
pp. 162-162
Author(s):  
Alison Hunter-Smith ◽  
Colleen Ann Cuthbert ◽  
Karen Fergus ◽  
Lisa Catherine Barbera ◽  
Yvonne Efegoma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Peer Support Program

162 Background: Young women with breast cancer (YWBC) have unique survivorship needs due to life stage at point of diagnosis. Peer support sought by YWBC through social media channels appears to be rising. We aimed to understand the unmet needs of YWBC in order to develop a tailored peer support program to improve young women’s breast cancer experience and ultimately reduce psychosocial morbidity long-term. Methods: Using qualitative inquiry, we conducted semi-structured interviews with YWBC survivors and clinicians using purposive sampling. Inclusion criteria were women aged 40 years or younger at diagnosis, stage 0-IV disease. Survivors were minimum one year post-diagnosis and with active treatment complete. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim and data was analyzed using Thorne’s Interpretive Description. Themes were reviewed with study team throughout data analysis. Results: Thirty-six participants were interviewed from ten centers across seven Canadian provinces; mean age 36 years. Participant reported demographics:18% ‘visible minority’, 9% ‘born outside Canada’, 7% ‘Indigenous’ and 54% of patients’ household income at or below Canadian average. At point of diagnosis 69% married, 44% had children and 9% pregnant or postpartum. Themes from YWBC interviewed focused on coping needs: feeling alone, misunderstood by professionals and misplaced among peers. Participants described all-age peer support groups risked triggering anxieties, lacked convenience and were comprised of women at later life stages with differing needs. YWBC reported lack of young age breast cancer-specific peer support. YWBC frequently found support through social media de novo, by following young-age breast cancer survivor pages, blogs and forums as well as virtual support groups. YWBC also report benefit from identifying similar life and cancer stage survivors globally and forming individual relations virtually, through direct messaging. Additionally, benefits described from age-specific social media support included unique shared experience and understanding, hope from positive outcomes of similar life stage diagnoses, and increased confidence and healthcare navigation for YWBC. Women unanimously requested one on one peer support program development - a survivor mentorship scheme specifically for YWBC that would provide the convenience of online support without the obligations or emotionally overwhelming nature of structured support groups. Conclusions: We have identified unique support needs from this young cohort of women that are not currently being met within standard Canadian healthcare pathways. We aim to develop a novel one on one peer support program for YWBC, to optimize psychosocial support and improve young women’s empowerment and autonomy in managing the effects of cancer long-term.

Online Presentation of Gendered Selves among Young Women in Egypt

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Senni Jyrkiäinen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
The Self ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Gender Interaction

Social media and Facebook in particular have become an important arena of social interaction and premarital romance in Egypt. In a society where dating can potentially harm the reputation of young women, a decent public image is considered valuable symbolic capital. This is especially true for brides-to-be. Many university-educated young women have found Facebook useful for impression management. It is necessary for them to mask aspects of their behavior that may be condemned as morally inappropriate and they have thus developed strategies for navigating through certain moral expectations about female sexual purity, virginity and modesty. I define the young women who edit their profiles in order to conform to the prevailing norms of decency, in Goffman’s terms, as ‘cynical performers’. As I show, the embellishment of the self is a pragmatic solution to the problem of coping with existing dating practices and conflicting norms of proper gender interaction, often understood as ‘Islamic’.

scholarly journals Lipstick Bullets: Labour and Gender in Professional Gamer Self-Branding

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Zolides
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Reputation Management ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Gendered Identity ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Gender

With the growing professionalisation of electronic sports (or e-sports), the individuals who compete are, like their more “traditional” sport counterparts, becoming celebrities. Actual competition is a fraction of the labour a professional gamer undertakes to earn a living and generate a self-brand—there are also complex arrangements involving sponsorships, team-memberships, and digital reputation management. Indeed, taking part in e-sports can be understood as another mode of celebrity-creation within a particular fan community. A key vector to the persona formation of professional gamers is gender. Female professional gamers must navigate additional hurdles in the creation and management of their brand and attempts to commoditise their personas. Female gamers carefully negotiate and perform their gender while maintaining their status as a competitor and influencer in gaming’s highly masculinised culture. This performativity places these young women in a precarious position not just in terms of economic stability, but also in terms of their gendered identity. This paper compares the online personas of professional gamers Matt “NaDeSHoT” Haag and Kelly “MrsViolence” Kelley, analysing their social media presences and mainstream media appearances. Reframing the labour of professional gamers as one of building a commodifiable work persona can help us better understand the economically precarious position in which professional gamers, particularly young women, find themselves.

Riding the Korean Wave in Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-164
Author(s):  
Gi Yeon Koo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Fan Culture ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Korean Wave ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
Culture Consumption ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork

Abstract This study explores the Korean Wave and fandom in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It follows Iranian women’s consumption of Korean popular culture in the context of their general pop-culture consumption patterns and how they create a fan culture through social media and pop culture. This study is based on data collected through anthropological fieldwork in Tehran. User-generated content on social media, such as Telegram and Instagram, was used to examine how young Iranian women are actively leading the fandom culture through their daily fan-related activities and how, in doing so, they forge a sense of solidarity with other women and global fans. The fandom phenomenon of the Iranian Muslim women shows how youth can effect social change in Iran while demonstrating that it is possible to trace the cultural changes taking place in Iran.

Platforms

Abundance ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 57-92
Author(s):  
Pablo J. Boczkowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Communication Space ◽  
Prime Determinant ◽  
And Gender ◽  
High Level

Chapter 3 is devoted to social media. The survey reveals the role of age over socioeconomic status and gender as the prime determinant of platform access and use. The interviews show that people attribute different meanings to different platforms and act accordingly. Participants view WhatsApp as akin to a coffee place, a communication space affording a distinct public intimacy; Facebook as a mall characterized by its massive and generalist environment—a convenient yet unappealing venue; Twitter as a newsstand, an information-centered context marked by an informal and humorous tone; Instagram as a promenade, or a venue for an idealized and aestheticized visual presentation of the self; and Snapchat as a carnival, an equally visual but more ludic alternative. The analysis shows a high level of attachment to platforms. The chapter concludes by continuing the discussion of a reconstitution of sociality in the experience of information abundance.

scholarly journals Low Cost Private Schools: ‘Helping’ to Reach Education for All Through Exploiting Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Roy Carr-Hill ◽  
Shelley Sauerhaft
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Women Teachers ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

The rapid growth of Low Cost Private Schools (LCPS) in developing countries has led to increasing interest in the model’s ‘sustainability’. Nearly all the literature is based on the proponents’ claims that the model is more cost-effective than government schools rather than of the implications of the model depending to a large extent on very low paid young women teachers.The article is written against the backdrop of the model of an autonomous, respected, well-prepared teacher and framed in terms of human rights and gender (dis-)empowerment. Drawing on material on literature mainly from India and Pakistan, it documents the educational levels and employment opportunities for women; reviews the arguments for and against the model pointing out the lack of attention to the high rates of profit and the plight of teachers; and demonstrates that the (mostly young women) teachers are not only very low paid but are also poorly qualified with very precarious conditions of employment. Simply put, paying women teachers less than the minimum wage denies their human rights, further disempowering those who are already socially marginalized and excluded. This is not sustainable for gender equality in the long term and, finally, detrimental to education in developing societies as a whole.

scholarly journals STRATEGI KOMUNIKASI HIJABERS SEMARANG DALAM MENSYIARKAN HIJAB PADA MUSLIMAH MUDA DI SEMARANG

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Ummul Baroroh ◽  
Nur Cahyo Hendro W ◽  
Nur Afifah Ghoida
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Additional Value

<p><em>Communication  strategy Hijabers  Semarang  not  yet  fully  use  communication strategy, because it does not have a foundation that is structured in terms of media and audience selection and in the evaluation process. However, the process has changed the interest of young Muslim women to use hijab. In formulating a communication strategy, In the preparation of the message, Hijabers Semarang raised the theme that is currently actual among young muslimah, so this makes additional value for Hijabers Semarang among young women themselves. The method used by Hijabers Semarang in delivering hijab syiar to young Muslim women is by Redundancy method, by spreading the broadcast  repeatedly to be easily  remembered by  young  muslimah. Canalizing, by plunging directly into the field involving Semarang Hijabers members and committees, to be able to determine and identify similarities and differences so that Hijabers Semarang is easier to make adjustments with audiences. Used strategy persuasive, educative and informative. Hijabers Semarang take advantage of various social media such as facebook, twitter, instagram, and web blog.</em></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>Strategi komunikasi Hijabers Semarang belum seutuhnya menggunakan strategi komunikasi, karena tidak mempunyai landasan yang terstruktur dalam hal pemilihan media dan khalayak serta dalam proses evaluasi. Akan tetapi, proses yang terjadi telah berhasil mengubah minat muslimah muda untuk menggunakan hijab. Dalam menyusun strategi komunikasi, Hijabers Semarang mengenal khalayak dengan cara survei atau mendatangi langsung sasaran dan mengomunikasikan dengan pihak sasaran. Pada penyusunan pesan, Metode yang digunakan Hijabers Semarang dalam menyampaikan syiar hijab  pada  muslimah  muda  adalah  dengan  metode  <em>Redundancy, </em>dengan  menyebarkan <em>broadcast  </em>berulang-ulang  kali  agar  mudah  diingat  oleh  muslimah  muda<em>.  Canalizing, </em>dengan terjun langsung ke lapangan yang melibatkan anggota dan komite Hijabers Semarang, untuk dapat menentukan dan mengidentifikasi persamaan dan perbedaan sehingga Hijabers Semarang lebih mudah melakukan penyesuaian dengan khalayak. <em>Persuasif</em>, pada kegiatan <em>hijab and beauty class </em>dan Gerakan Seribu Kerudung, khalayak dipengaruhi dengan jalan membujuk dan digugah baik pikiran maupun perasaan. Strategi yang  digunakan   bersifat   persuasive,   edukatif   dan   informative.  Hijabers Semarang</p><p>memanfaatkan berbagai media sosial seperti <em>facebook, twitter, instagram, </em>dan <em>web blog.</em></p>

Self-Compassion and Quality of Life in Adults Who Stutter

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 2097-2108
Author(s):  
Robyn L. Croft ◽  
Courtney T. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
The Self ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Adults Who Stutter ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this study was to identify levels of self-compassion in adults who do and do not stutter and to determine whether self-compassion predicts the impact of stuttering on quality of life in adults who stutter. Method Participants included 140 adults who do and do not stutter matched for age and gender. All participants completed the Self-Compassion Scale. Adults who stutter also completed the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering. Data were analyzed for self-compassion differences between and within adults who do and do not stutter and to predict self-compassion on quality of life in adults who stutter. Results Adults who do and do not stutter exhibited no significant differences in total self-compassion, regardless of participant gender. A simple linear regression of the total self-compassion score and total Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering score showed a significant, negative linear relationship of self-compassion predicting the impact of stuttering on quality of life. Conclusions Data suggest that higher levels of self-kindness, mindfulness, and social connectedness (i.e., self-compassion) are related to reduced negative reactions to stuttering, an increased participation in daily communication situations, and an improved overall quality of life. Future research should replicate current findings and identify moderators of the self-compassion–quality of life relationship.

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