Performing honor online: The affordances of social media for surveillance and impression management in an honor culture

Pearce, Katy E.; Vitak, Jessica

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“…In contexts such as Iran and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the notion of risk and transgression is radically different from Western democracies. Beyond political pressure, social norms also play an important role in defining the boundaries of transgressive acts as well as social media affordances (Pearce & Vitak, 2016). Moreover, in the MENA region, many women's rights movements recently gained momentum and came to the forefront of social change.…”

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Digitally Mediated Protest: Social Media Affordances for Collective Identity Construction

Khazraee

Novak

2018

Social Media + Society

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Many scholars discuss the role of social media in the context of social movements, but there remain major disagreements regarding the precise role that social media plays. One area that deserves more in-depth study is the affordances of social media for constructing collective identity. This article examines the case of an Iranian women's rights campaign page on Facebook, "My Stealthy Freedom," using an analysis of textual and visual content. The article examines how online campaign pages on Facebook contribute to the formation of collective identity and the construction of a campaign narrative. Following the analysis, the authors discuss how photobiographic campaigns-social media users sharing personal photos and adjoining personal narratives in support of a cause-illustrate two affordances of social media for construction of collective identity: affordances for discourse and affordances for performance. Affordances for discourse contribute to the collective action framing process through sharing of grievances and collectively negotiating meaning. These affordances also contribute to a collectively and incrementally constructed narrative by sharing personal stories that resonate with the group. Affordances for performance focus on the enactment of protest through transgressive photobiographies deliberately staged to convey the movement message to broader audiences. Here, transgressive photobiographies are defined as modular performances that can be adopted for the repertoires of contentious politics through protesting of laws and norms, such as the mandatory hijab. These transgressive performances create group solidarity through engagement in risk, thereby contributing to the formation of group identities.

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Digitally Mediated Protest: Social Media Affordances for Collective Identity Construction

Khazraee

Novak

2018

Social Media + Society

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“…This is even more important in a country like Azerbaijan, a traditional patriarchal society, where women are constantly being surveilled, and especially young women have a difficult time when trying to engage in Internet activities due to "society's strict behavioral codes" ( [4], p. 12). Although for many years various women's associations, groups, non-governmental organizations and political parties tried to "raise women's consciousness and seek to alter traditional, gendered social relations and consequently to give Azeri women more power and control over their own well-being" ( [45], p. 303), these efforts fall short of enabling greater numbers of Azerbaijani women to participate in politics.…”

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Azerbaijani Women, Online Mediatized Activism and Offline Mass Mobilization

Mehrabov

2016

Social Sciences

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Despite its post-Soviet history, Azerbaijan is an under-investigated country in academic research-compared with the other former constituencies, such as the Baltic countries or Russia, of the USSR-and gender questions of the contemporary Azerbaijani society are even less touched on. Within the current context of the post-"Arab Spring" era of mediatized connectivity and collective political engagement, this article looks into and analyzes how Azerbaijani women participate in different online and offline social and political movements, and if (and how) they are impeded by the increased state authoritarianism in Azerbaijan. Using data, obtained from online information resources, yearly reports of human rights organizations, focus group discussions, and interviews, the study detects four major activist constellations within the Azerbaijani field of gendered politics. Based on the analysis of conditions of detected groups, the article claims that flash mobs, a tactic employed mainly by liberal activists, emerge as the promising way in overcoming the normative nature of Azerbaijani patriarchal society, thus providing an opportunity for normalization and internalization of the feeling of being on the street and acting in concert with others-the practices which might lead towards an increasing participation of (especially young) women in the political processes of the country.Keywords: Azerbaijan; oppressive politics; political opposition; surveillance; women activists IntroductionThe turbulent "Arab Spring"-which took place mainly during the years of 2011 and 2012 and has dramatically changed the political geography of the Middle East-has also inspired other insurgent oppositional movements around the world. The Azerbaijani online opposition of 2011, enthused by the seeming success of revolutions in North Africa, and organized mostly on social networking sites, was not an exception. As the transformation of mostly Muslim geographies was in its heyday, it did not take long for Azerbaijani activists to become impressed by the possibilities brought with online organizational capacities of social media and to start organizing their protests on these platforms.The response of the Azerbaijani government to these developments was very harsh. Police forces violently dispersed activists at their every attempt, and legislative bans on further dares of conducting any form of oppositional protest "effectively criminalized the protests . . . and led to imprisonment for many of those who organized and took part in them" ([1], p. 70). As the calls to turn Azadlıq Meydanı (Azadliq Square) into "Baku's Tahrir", placed through Facebook posts and Twitter tweets, resulted in arrests of opposition protesters even before the events took place, it became obvious that the state surveillance had "significantly increased its monitoring of internet activity and clamped down on social-media sites, news outlets, and blogs" ([2], p. 68).We live in an era of mediatization, a meta-process by which everyday communication practices become inc...

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“…A hashtag is basically a caption that takes the form of metacommunication as well as a system for sorting and organization (Daer, Hoffman, and Goodman 2014). It is an affordance (Pearce and Vitak 2016) that is now available across platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram where the # key is followed by an uninterrupted line of text to form a hashtag (Pandell 2017). It is a way to comment on the contents of a still or moving image, and it's also a way to cultivate a particular way of seeing the world (Berger 1972).…”

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Instagram and Gendered Surveillance: Ways of Seeing the Hashtag

Sebastian

2019

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This research examines gendered surveillance on Instagram. The hashtag serves as an affordance across platforms, and this work expands on the literature of the rhetorical functions of hashtags. Rather than focusing on the hashtag itself as the problem, I instead use it as a lens to examine an extant social issue that is beginning to receive attention from the growing body of feminist surveillance research. When Instagram allows certain terms and hashtags to flourish for weeks, months, and even years without removal, this type of rhetoric and image combination functions to socially isolate a particular group in a heteronormative and nonconsensual way that reproduces existing inequalities. Instagram (and also Facebook who owns it) has the opportunity to promote whatever content it chooses and to put forth whatever narrative or rhetorical formation of the world it wants to see. What world does Instagram want?

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Performing honor online: The affordances of social media for surveillance and impression management in an honor culture

Cited by 60 publications

References 42 publications

Digitally Mediated Protest: Social Media Affordances for Collective Identity Construction

Digitally Mediated Protest: Social Media Affordances for Collective Identity Construction

Azerbaijani Women, Online Mediatized Activism and Offline Mass Mobilization

Instagram and Gendered Surveillance: Ways of Seeing the Hashtag

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