“That $hit Ain’t Gangsta”: Symbolic Boundary Making in an Online Urban Gossip Community

Randolph, Antonia; Swan, Holly; Rowe, Kristin Denise

doi:10.1177/0891241617716744

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“…As was presented in Israel, the population is affected by the main religions, and this effect might be culture-bound. For example, Randolph et al (2018) reported that among youth in the American culture, gossip is considered legitimate and there are even very popular blogs and gossip sites operated by teenagers on the internet. Lee and Workman (2014) supported this perception for Korean adolescents.…”

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Social capital levels, gossip and employee performance in aviation and shipping companies in Israel

Ben‐Hador

2019

IJM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand better the organizational social capital (SC) levels and their impact on organizations by focusing on personal SC and intra-organizational SC as well as their different connections to organizational gossip and employee performance. Design/methodology/approach Participants in a field study included 617 employees from five Israeli organizations in the field of aviation and shipping. Levels of personal SC, intra-organizational SC, gossip and self-evaluated performance were measured, and connections between them detected. Findings The results indicate that intra-organizational SC is positively connected to employee performance, while personal SC is positively linked to gossip. Personal SC also leads to performance with the mediation of intra-organizational SC, although gossip was not found to be connected to performance. Originality/value The contributions of this study are both conceptual and practical. The distinction between organizational SC levels is refined, improving organizational research accuracy and facilitating a better grasp of the connections between SC and other variables. The scant research on organizational gossip has been expanded. From a practical perspective, clarification of the link between organizational SC and performance can be beneficial to employees and organizations.

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Social capital levels, gossip and employee performance in aviation and shipping companies in Israel

Ben‐Hador

2019

IJM

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“…While there are some explorations of Black men’s musical expressions of their inner lives that center emotional pain, vulnerability, and other feelings (Oware 2011; Winters 2013), many understandings of hip-hop hinge upon the genre’s hypermasculinity and its reinforcement of the larger patriarchal and misogynistic culture from which it derives. Such understandings elide how hip-hop also stretches the possibilities for a multiplicity of acceptable performances of masculinity (Randolph, Swan, and Rowe 2017). Ignoring these expressions of feelings also exemplifies the dehumanization that occurs with failures to recognize African American interiority.…”

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Listening for the Interior in Hip-Hop and R&B Music

Allen

Randolph

2019

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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This article analyzes how four Black musical artists make “quiet,” or the inner life of African Americans, legible. Specifically, we consider ways that the quiet found within the lyrics of recent acclaimed albums from two hip-hop artists and two neo-soul artists—Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN (2017) and Rapsody’s Laila’s Wisdom (2017), Solange’s A Seat at the Table (2016) and Maxwell’s blackSUMMERS’night (2016), respectively—offer subtle, quotidian challenges to oppression, dehumanization, and objectification. We find that quiet occurs as artists describe the use of metaphysical space, or how place is used to make and take space for the self and to find peace, the protection of the interior self, and the gifts of quiet to the struggle for resistance. These lyrics speak to the interior safe space that Blacks seek as refuge from oppression by the dominant culture and demands from within their community. We contend that Blacks exercise power through their dominion over their interior selves, which in turn expresses their humanity. It is their control of the content of inner life, whatever those contents may be, that is an expression of sovereignty.

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“…The Black and white photo shows Jordan cradling the back of Coogler’s head with one hand, as Coogler tilts his head toward Jordan’s shoulder and both men look at the camera. The closeness and proximity of two Black male bodies touching and exhibiting care for one another is a powerful counternarrative about Black masculinity, even as some conversely interpret it as perpetuating the feminization and emasculation of Black men (Oware 2011; Randolph, Swan, and Rowe 2018). To love Black people is a radical act in a world where anti-Blackness permeates every aspect of life.…”

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Unapologetic Blackness in Action: Embodied Resistance and Social Movement Scenes in Black Celebrity Activism

Allen

Miles

2020

Humanity & Society

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American popular culture was established to appease a white audience and continues to operate in such a manner. This pervasive white gaze in the entertainment industry manifests in anti-Black depictions and ideologies. Black celebrities have resisted this distinct form of racial oppression by overtly affirming their Black identity in entertainment spaces. To further explore this phenomenon, the present article examines: How do Black celebrities employ unapologetic Blackness as an embodied resistance tactic to challenge racial inequality in pop cultural spaces? We analyze five cases of contemporary celebrity activism across various pop cultural platforms (YouTube, film, sport, music, and television) and find that just as race is socially constructed, varying across social locations, resistance to racial oppression also varies depending on the site in which it occurs. We further argue that Black celebrities’ embodied resistance converts pop cultural spaces into social movement scenes, thus transforming moments of entertainment into opportunities for political mobilization.

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“That $hit Ain’t Gangsta”: Symbolic Boundary Making in an Online Urban Gossip Community

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Social capital levels, gossip and employee performance in aviation and shipping companies in Israel

Social capital levels, gossip and employee performance in aviation and shipping companies in Israel

Listening for the Interior in Hip-Hop and R&B Music

Unapologetic Blackness in Action: Embodied Resistance and Social Movement Scenes in Black Celebrity Activism

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