Intimacy: A Special Issue

Berlant, Lauren

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“…The realm of intimacy is one traditionally associated with the feminine private sphere, but various commentators have marked out how public worlds, institutions and market forces have marshalled the intimate terrain into public spaces for the operation of power, using it to reinforce arguments of 'normalcy' against the ruptures of social and cultural tensions. Lauren Berlant (2000) tells us 'intimacy also involves an aspiration for a narrative about something shared, a story about oneself and others…set within zones of familiarity and comfort: friendship, the couple, and the family form, animated by expressive and emancipating kinds of love' (Berlant 2000). It seems clear that stories told in various forms of 'reality' television contribute to the tide of ways in which questions of intimacy are transmuted through, for example, the rise of the therapy industry, talk shows and pseudo-psychological advice espoused in women's magazines.…”

Section: Extending Intimacy: Domesticity and Moral Responsibilitymentioning

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The labour of transformation and circuits of value ‘around’ reality television

Skeggs

Wood

2008

Continuum

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Drawing on recent research from a project which included both textual and audience research, this paper will explore the involvement of women viewers with 'reality' TV as 'circuits of value'. These relationships cannot be adequately described as deconstructions of representations as in a text-reader framework of media theory. Rather, we examine these relationships as an extended social realm, whereby the immanent structure of reality television generates emotional connections to the labouring undertaken by participants on the programmes. 'Reality' television develops different traditions of women's genres from melodrama, magazines to lifestyle television, it drawing attention to those who need transformation. By promoting different forms of women's emotional, appearance and domestic labour, it parallels broader political shifts to an 'affective economy'. Rather than these texts producing wholly divisive moral reactions in viewers, we noticed how our audience participants assessed the forms of labour performed through their different classed resources, made judgements through pursuing connections with their own lives, and ultimately tended to value care over condemnation.

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Section: Extending Intimacy: Domesticity and Moral Responsibilitymentioning

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The labour of transformation and circuits of value ‘around’ reality television

Skeggs

Wood

2008

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“…Para além do brincar, que se constitui como núcleo de expressão (Lange 2014) marcante nos ví-deos, constatamos uma presença significativa de discursos confessionais, marcados por revelações de gostos, pensamentos, sentimentos e experiências, em proximidade ao que Raun (2018) chama de self privado. Nesta fase de transição da infância para a adolescência, as meninas fortalecem uma esfera pública íntima (Berlant, 1998(Berlant, e 2008, na qual a identidade de gênero feminina é especialmente conectada a narrativas pessoais, que incluem rotinas de moda e beleza, escolhas sobre decoração do quarto, reflexões sobre relações familiares ou sobre a vida escolar, entre outras vivências. Esta valorização da intimidade produz discursos que se projetam como autênticos e que são capazes de promover a identificação das youtubers como modelos perante os seus pares e consequentemente como influenciadoras para hábitos de consumo.…”

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Meninas no YouTube: participação, celebrização e cultura do consumo

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Sampaio

Miranda

2018

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ResumoCom base numa pesquisa exploratória, estudamos canais de youtubers mirins com enorme popularidade no Brasil -Isabel Cerer (8 anos), Juliana Baltar (9 anos), Manoela Antelo (10 anos) e Júlia Silva (11 anos) -, com o objetivo de analisar as suas prá-ticas de produção e divulgação de conteúdos, num contexto marcado por estratégias de celebrização (Jerslev e Mortensen, 2016) e por uma forte cultura do consumo (Featherstone, 2007). Como aporte teórico, discutimos as culturas digitais na infância com enfoque de gênero. Observamos, como resultado, um processo de bricolagem no qual as youtubers mobilizam três linhas estratégicas -capital lú-dico, (micro)celebrização e feminilidade emergente -num jogo de forças em que a participação, criatividade e espontaneidade se justapõem a uma lógica de empreendedorismo pós-feminista (Genz, 2015) gerido de forma cada vez mais profissional e subordinado à lógica do consumo.Palavras-chave: youtube; youtubers; crianças; identidade; gênero.Girlhood in YouTube: participation, celebrification, and consumer culture Abstract Based on an exploratory research, we studied popular child YouTube channels in Brazil -Isabel Cerer (8 years), Juliana Baltar (9 years), Manoela Antelo (10 years) and Júlia Silva (11 years) -, to analyze their practices of production and dissemination of content, in a context marked by strategies of celebrification and a strong culture of consumption. As theoretical background, we discuss children's digital cultures with a gender focus. As a result, we see a process of bricolage in which youtubers mobilize three strategic lines -playful capital, (micro)celebrification and emergent femininity -In a game of forces in which participation, creativity and spontaneity are juxtaposed to a postfeminist entrepreneurship (Genz, 2015), increasingly professionally managed, and subordinate to the logic of consumer culture.

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“…Meanwhile, the theoretical lens adopted by many studies in media and communications tends to ignore the broader historical study of intimacy as a defining feature of social life. In this article, we draw on Berlant's deeper theorisation of intimacy as the cultural equation of 'having a life with having an intimate life' (Berlant, 2000: 2, emphasis added) in order to show intimacy's usefulness as a problematic for media studies. We are interested in Berlant's critical and historically specific notion of intimacy as a 'public mode of identification and self-development' that is tied to the divisive 'relation between public and private', sustained and reconfigured within neoliberalism (Berlant, 2008: 3).…”

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Mediating the presence of others: Reconceptualising co-presence as mediated intimacy

Cefai

Couldry

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Drawing insight from queer and media studies, this article analyses data from the UK study Adults’ Media Lives. The authors claim that this study reveals the significance of people’s intimate relationships to their media practices, highlighting in particular how people’s media practices mediate the ‘presence’ of others. The authors put forward the concept of mediated intimacy to capture both the cultural intimacy people have with media and the mediation of intimacy by media practices. Mediating intimacy has implications for normative conceptions of intimate life, including the significance of ‘time’ to the values of ‘home’ and ‘work’.

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Intimacy: A Special Issue

Cited by 721 publications

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The labour of transformation and circuits of value ‘around’ reality television

The labour of transformation and circuits of value ‘around’ reality television

Meninas no YouTube: participação, celebrização e cultura do consumo

Mediating the presence of others: Reconceptualising co-presence as mediated intimacy

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