Shameless dicks: On male privilege, dick pic scandals, and public exposure

Academic debates on shame and the involuntary networked circulation of naked pictures have largely focused on instances of hacked accounts of female celebrities, on revenge porn, and interconnected forms of slut-shaming. Meanwhile, dick pics have been predominantly examined as vehicles of sexual harassment within heterosexual contexts. Taking a somewhat different approach, this article examines leaked or otherwise involuntarily exposed dick pics of men of notable social privilege, asking what kinds of media events such leaked data assemble, how penises become sites of public interest and attention, and how these bodies may be able to escape circuits of public shaming. By focusing on high-profile incidents on an international scale during the past decade, this article moves from the leaked shots of male politicians as governance through shaming to body-shaming targeted at Harvey Weinstein, to Jeff Bezos’s refusal to be shamed through his hacked dick pic, and to an accidentally self-published shaft shot of Lars Ohly, a Swedish politician, we examine the agency afforded by social privilege to slide through shame rather than be stuck in it. By building on feminist media studies and affect inquiry, we attend to the specificities of these attempts to shame, their connections to and disconnections from slut-shaming, and the possibilities and spaces offered for laughter within this all.

Autoethnography of The Bad Thing

This article offers an account of the author’s experience after being falsely accused online of sexual assault by a former student. More than a chronicle of events, the article serves as a critical, self-reflexive inventory of thoughts and feelings, as the author looks to come to terms with the allegations and their consequences, as well as practice concern for his accuser. More broadly, the essay serves as an inquiry into the complexities of storytelling and self-research, in relation to shame, truth, and social privilege.

Educational purposes economicus: Globalization and the Reshaping of Educational Purpose in Three Canadian Provinces

I explore the ways in which the discourse of globalization has shaped purposes of public education into what I will call purposes economicus - that is, the reshaping of educational purpose by the perceived demands of a competitive global economy. I argue that the effects of globalization on existing constructions of economic and social privilege have had a pernicious effect on broader possibilities for public schooling in order to enhance private privilege. However, purposes of public education are highly contested and their capture by the perceived inevitability of what have emerged as highly congruent educational policies across Anglo-American capitalist democracies is always incomplete and can, therefore, be resisted.

Hypocognition and the Invisibility of Social Privilege

Are members of socially dominant groups aware of the privileges they enjoy? We address this question by applying the notion ofhypocognition to social privilege. Hypocognition is defined as lacking a rich cognitive or linguistic representation (i.e., a schema) of a concept in question. By social privilege, we refer to advantages that members of dominant social groups enjoy because oftheir group membership. We argue that such group members are hypocognitive of the privilege they enjoy. They have little cognitive rep- resentation ofit. As a consequence, their social advantage is invisible to them.

The current state of organization of payroll calculations in the conditions of development of information technologies

Purpose. The aim of the article is investigation of the current state of organization of payroll calculations in the context of constant change of the normative and legal framework and in the conditions of development of information technologies. Methodology of research. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the normative and legal framework, scientific works of domestic scientists on the problems of organization of remuneration in Ukraine. The research is conducted on the basis of the use of general scientific and special methods of cognition. The monographic method is used in the scientific publications, the method of analysis and systematic approach is used to the study the current state of the organization of remuneration, the method of comparisons is used in the study of the dynamics of the minimum wage, the subsistence minimum for different categories of population. Abstract and logical method is used to formulate conclusions from the conducted study. Findings. The problematic issues of the current state of the organization of payroll calculations in Ukraine are formed. The optimal ways of solving problems of organization of remuneration are determined, among which are the following: updating of the legislative and regulatory framework; state control over compliance with the size and types of social guarantees (minimum wage, subsistence minimum for different categories of population, tax social privilege); accuracy, timeliness, reliability of accounting and reporting, etc. Originality. It has further developed the study of the functions of wages that it must perform in modern conditions and the creation of a basis for increasing the interest of employees in high-productivity work. Practical value. The proposed above proposals will help to overcome the problems of the current state of payments in Ukraine. The complex and in-depth study of this problem is outlined, as well as the prospects for the development of the state in the sphere of remuneration. Key words: remuneration; minimum wage; Tax Code of Ukraine; tax social privilege; personal income tax; single social contribution; reporting.