Girlfriendship and sameness: affective belonging in a digital intimate public

Kanai, Akane

doi:10.1080/09589236.2017.1281108

Cited by 39 publications

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“…Here, we want to take this one step further by turning to Lauren Berlant's work, which is helpful for our focus on intimacy. Berlant's (2008) notion of the intimate public is useful for capturing the nuances of how people define their publics online and has been popular in recent social research on various digital platforms (for instance, Andreassen, 2017;Kanai, 2017). Rather than opposing the intimate and the public, Berlant (2008) conceives of the "intimate public," often produced by media and marketing, as "constituted by strangers who consume common texts and things" (2008, p. viii).…”

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confidence: 99%

What Is “Publicly Available Data”? Exploring Blurred Public–Private Boundaries and Ethical Practices Through a Case Study on Instagram

Ravn

Barnwell

Neves

2019

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

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This article adds to the literature on ethics in digital research by problematizing simple understandings of what constitutes “publicly available data,” thereby complicating common “consent waiver” approaches. Based on our recent study of representations of family life on Instagram, a platform with a distinct visual premise, we discuss the ethical challenges we encountered and our practices for moving forward. We ground this in Lauren Berlant’s concept of “intimate publics” to conceptualize the different understandings of “publics” that appear to be at play. We make the case for a more reflexive approach to social media research ethics that builds on the socio-techno-ethical affordances of the platform to address difficult questions about how to determine social media users’ diverse, and sometimes contradictory, understandings of what is “public.”

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Section: Advancing the Notion Of "The Public"mentioning

confidence: 99%

What Is “Publicly Available Data”? Exploring Blurred Public–Private Boundaries and Ethical Practices Through a Case Study on Instagram

Ravn

Barnwell

Neves

2019

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

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“…Work in this area evidences how networked technologies can impact health and wellbeing, self-perception and social interaction. For example, some have explored how online communities facilitate a sense of belonging and social support around diverse areas like parenting, eating disorders and friendships (Kanai, 2017;Lupton, Pederson and Thomas, 2016;Miah and Rich, 2008). Others have investigated people's engagements with self-tracking technologies, for instance considering the effect of health and fitness apps on physical and mental wellbeing (Depper and Howe, 2016;Goodyear, Kerner and Quennerstedt, 2017).…”

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‘She has like 4000 followers!’: the celebrification of self within school social networks.

MacIsaac

Kelly

Gray

2017

Journal of Youth Studies

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Her main research interests are teaching, learning and the curriculum in the physical education context. 'She has like 4000 followers!': the celebrification of self within school social networks. Online social interaction has become integral to contemporary social life, adding new dimensions to how young people learn, interact, and perceive themselves and one another. This paper presents theoretical insights from a year-long ethnographic study within a Scottish secondary school, where participant observation and qualitative interviews were used to explain pupils' informal social relationships. Here, pupils aged 11-18 constructed and negotiated a hyper-surveillanced social space within which many became (or strived to become) visible and 'known' amongst others and where online presentations of self were highly important. This facilitated a celebrity-esque culture amongst the pupil population whereby pupils learnt from and emulated macro celebrity culture and often framed social interactions as entertainment. Central to these practices, was a continual desire to "make gains in distinction" by demonstrating high social status amongst peers. The paper explores the resulting implications for teaching, learning and pupil wellbeing within contemporary educational environments.

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“…confidence, resilence, positive mental attitude -needed to survive and thrive in the current moment (Gill and Orgad, 2015;. And with Akane I have been developing the idea of postfeminist or neoliberal 'feeling rules' -building out of Akane's reading (Kanai, 2017a; 2017b) of Arlie Hochschild's (1983) work. Taken together, this work is increasingly interested in what we see as a psychological turn in neoliberalism and postfeminism (Gill and Kanai, 2018a;2018b).…”

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Postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in conversation

2019

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In this unconventional article, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg conduct a three-way ‘conversation’ in which they all take turns outlining how they understand the relationship among postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism. It begins with a short introduction, and then Ros, Sarah and Catherine each define the term they have become associated with. This is followed by another round in which they discuss the overlaps, similarities and disjunctures among the terms, and the article ends with how each one understands the current mediated feminist landscape.

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Girlfriendship and sameness: affective belonging in a digital intimate public

Cited by 39 publications

References 24 publications

What Is “Publicly Available Data”? Exploring Blurred Public–Private Boundaries and Ethical Practices Through a Case Study on Instagram

What Is “Publicly Available Data”? Exploring Blurred Public–Private Boundaries and Ethical Practices Through a Case Study on Instagram

‘She has like 4000 followers!’: the celebrification of self within school social networks.

Postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in conversation

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