Enemy number one or gay clown? The Russian president, masculinity and populism in US media

Wiedlack, Katharina

doi:10.1080/18902138.2019.1707459

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“…Thus, until 2010, the tone of reports about Putin in the UP was less negative than in the KP. Since then, every year, the tone between the publications is more noticeable, and the Ukrainian edition tends to give a more negative assessment of Putin [12].…”

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Sentiment Analysis Based on the BERT Model: Attitudes Towards Politicians Using Media Data

Salnikova¹,

Kyrychenko²

2021

Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science, Psychology and Legal Regulation (SPL 2021)

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The latest analysis methods of sentiments borrowed from computational linguistics are relevant in the age of big data, which is difficult to process through traditional content analysis. These methods have made it possible to analyze information over a long period, which allows us to trace the dynamics of the relationship to a particular object over time and large-scale comparative studies of texts. The authors demonstrate the applicability of sentiment analysis based on transformer models to the study of the temporal model of attitudes towards well-known politicians (2001-2021) on the example of text analysis of multilingual online publications. To do this, the authors used the targeted-BERT method for automated directed analysis of sentiments, obtained quality indicators F1-score 0.799 and 0.741 for Ukrainian and Russian models, respectively. The authors tested the dependence of mediatization of politicians on the country's political hierarchy, confirmed hypotheses about the attitude to their power (more significant criticism of the Ukrainian media and gradual loyalty to the Russian media) and foreign politicians (dominance of negative tone in both media with a growing trend for Ukrainian media).

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Section: Research Resultsmentioning

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Sentiment Analysis Based on the BERT Model: Attitudes Towards Politicians Using Media Data

Salnikova¹,

Kyrychenko²

2021

Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science, Psychology and Legal Regulation (SPL 2021)

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“…Katharina Wiedlack (2020: 67) argues that GCP reproduces phobic discourses by using visual cues of ‘feminization and gender transgression’ to disparage Putin. Read in this way, while these images undermine the hypermasculine, macho image the Kremlin curates, they do so using the very structures sought destabilized (Wiedlack, 2020). Wiedlack contends that these images do not make sense without the tacit knowledge that a particular way of being a ‘man’ is privileged; that divergence from cisheterosexual masculinity is undesirable.…”

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Security, sexuality, and the Gay Clown Putin meme: Queer theory and international responses to Russian political homophobia

Cooper-Cunningham

2022

Security Dialogue

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Focusing on the case of ‘Gay Clown Putin’, this article theorizes memes as visual interventions in international politics. While not all memes are political interventions, Gay Clown Putin is an iconic meme that is part of the international response to Russian state-directed political homophobia that emerged after the gay propaganda law was passed in 2013. How it has circulated and the attention it has received make it apt for exploring memes as visual political interventions that challenge national security discourses. Here, I provide three readings of Gay Clown Putin that suggest different possibilities for how the meme might work politically. In so doing, I deepen international relations’ engagement with queer theory by bringing in the politics of play that works through a queer epistemology that embraces deviance. Bringing memes to the study of international security, I show how the collection of images making up the Gay Clown Putin meme provides space for understanding the visual politics of security.

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“…The meme sent a message of empowerment and community to those who felt their masculinity was injured. This is why the meme proved so prominent for Putin: while his message mutated over the years, its core was always the assurance of empowering defeated heterosexual masculinity injured by the dissolution of the USSR (Novitskaya 2017;Wiedlack 2020;Sperling 2014). Putin thus came to power with the message of restoring Russia's potency after the disastrous 1990s, continued with a revanchist promise of raising Russia 'from its knees', and now challenges the entire 'West' to finally establish the country's global domination.…”

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Violent Affections: Queer sexuality, techniques of power, and law in Russia

Kondakov¹

2022

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List of figures and tables viii Acknowledgements ix Series editor's preface xii Introduction: neo-disciplinary power 1 Part I: The authority of law 23 1 The legal field 27 2 From a place of indifference 48 Part II: Unruly sexuality 74 3 Russia in queer colours 77 4 The sexual subject of law 101 Part III: Affects, emotions and law 125 8 Conclusion: the global Memeticon 198 References 211 Index 227VIOLENT AFFECTIONS viii List of figures and tables new guests brought along two more bottles of vodka. In the courtroom, these two men claimed that during the time that elapsed after their arrival, there was a marked increase in tension between Tatyana and Oleg. Tatyana allegedly called him a person with 'non-traditional sexual orientation', requested money from him, and repeatedly bothered him. At one point, Tatyana took Oleg to her bed and 'sat on his face with her genitals, also trying to push her panties into his mouth'. He resisted, which she saw as proof of his homosexuality. One of the guests stood up for Oleg and was locked in a closet, only to be taken to a cemetery later where he was forced to dig his own grave, in which he was buried alive.As the night progressed, Oleg was forced to put on the yellow dress and tights in which the police later discovered his body. The three defendants would soon be found guilty of beating him with their fists, feet and empty vodka bottles. According to the case file, blood was all over the place and Oleg could hardly walk when the drunken group took him to their car and drove in the direction of the Oka River dam. When they arrived, they opened the boot of the car and took Oleg out. He started to walk but fell into a nearby ditch, where he would lie for another week, unfound and eaten by maggots. The defendants left and headed to the victim's flat to pick up some of his belongings, including a TV, a microwave oven and a loudspeaker system. They returned to the original flat, where one of the defendants engaged in sex with Tatyana, and the rest of the guests had sex with another woman.The events of that night were interpreted by the district criminal court as manslaughter (the man who had been buried alive luckily survived the assault and was simply ignored by the court). The judge held that the defendants did not have the intention to kill (this would have constituted murder), but simply caused injuries eventually incompatible with life (manslaughter). In establishing whether the victim was a gay man, the court reviewed a forensic examination of his anus, in which 'spermatozoa were not found'. The three attackers were sentenced to 8 and 9 years in a high-security facility -two of the men were already convicted criminals and therefore received one additional year on their sentences. The rest of the group were summoned only as witnesses, including Tatyana.

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Enemy number one or gay clown? The Russian president, masculinity and populism in US media

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

Sentiment Analysis Based on the BERT Model: Attitudes Towards Politicians Using Media Data

Sentiment Analysis Based on the BERT Model: Attitudes Towards Politicians Using Media Data

Security, sexuality, and the Gay Clown Putin meme: Queer theory and international responses to Russian political homophobia

Violent Affections: Queer sexuality, techniques of power, and law in Russia

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