The optics of weight: expert perspectives from the panopticon and synopticon

Russell‐Mayhew, Shelly; Estefan, Andrew; Moules, Nancy J.; Lefebvre, Danielle; Morhun, Janelle M.; Saunders, Jessica F.; Wong, Katherine; Myre, Maxine

doi:10.1080/08870446.2022.2117810

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“…Berbagai pengawasan dan disiplin tubuh dapat diama dalam studi lain seper oleh Russell (2022) memberikan gambaran bagaimana perspek f panop kon bekerja dalam pandangan terhadap berat badan. Hasil peneli an menunjukkan bagaimana pengawasan dan koreksi dilakukan dalam menentukan bentuk tubuh seseorang yang menciptakan pemaksaan dan kontrol terhadap kekuasaan pada berat badan yang sempurna oleh kelompok yang menilai dirinya memiliki pengetahuan terhadap kebenaran ' (Russell-Mayhew et al, 2022). Peneli an lainnya dalam konteks pandemic covid 19, pengerahan pengawasan melalui pelacakan kontak dan karan na melalui penggunaan teknologi seper lokasi ponsel dan jaringan menggambarkan bagaimana pengawasan dan kontrol terhadap individu dilakukan.…”

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Fitness Discourse through Individual Posts on Instagram

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2024

JMKI

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Background: The discourse on fitness is one of the prevalent discussions in contemporary society. The fitness discourse, as understood today, is rooted in scientific research and exerts influence over other discourses related to fitness. The most widely embraced notion of fitness by the general public revolves around health. Purpose: Researchers argue that social media has become a means of panopticism, where attributes such as physical activities and sportswear serve as representations of normalized body fitness. This study employs Foucault's arguments in observing the daily posts of social media users regarding body fitness discourses as a form of panopticism. Methods: The research embraces a post-positivist paradigm and employs a mixed methods approach, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative segment employs surveys, while the qualitative aspect utilizes in-depth interviews with three informants. Conclusion: The findings of this study illustrate how panopticism manifests in social media posts, encouraging individuals who utilize these platforms to partake in physical activities. Furthermore, the study uncovers how social media posts not only depict the existing reality but also facilitate a simulated reality. Implications: This research underscores how the discourse surrounding body fitness, disseminated through media practices, is perpetuated to bolster dominant groups within the cultural industry.

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Fitness Discourse through Individual Posts on Instagram

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2024

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Positive Semiotics Construction: The Intersectionality of Fat Black Women, from fatphobia, Through Fat Appraisal to fat praise

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2024

Int J Semiot Law

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The intersectionality of fat black women has been in the cultural spotlight in recent years and a significant amount of them might feel invisible or even ask themselves why to exist. When one feels self-inexistence, an imagined reality reinforced by the world, sadness, depression, and anger install within a person. The imaginary inexistence is induced by the unaware shamelessness that others project in the ignored person, who feels being invisible, and being invisible in a digital world is to not exist. In this paper, we answer why they should exist. We approach the issue with Positive Semiotics on desirability based on Positive Psychology, which focuses on understanding and facilitating well-being. We propose a semiotic framework for the construction of positive meaning paving the way from fatphobia to fat praise, passing by fat appraisal, to promote the well-being of fat black women. The proposed framework is the Positive Semiotics Construction, which is simultaneously an individual and collective construction of meaning for well-being, with a Sign-System Functional Model applicable to the digital world. Furthermore, a semiotic approach to Law and Social Norms may understand norms as the ability to send and receive signals for cooperation, which derives from moral appraisals of and reactions to the behavior of others and ourselves, consequently forming the normative underpinning of Law. Hence, the Positive Semiotics Construction might impact normative values and influence Law affecting the language of a society.

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The optics of weight: expert perspectives from the panopticon and synopticon

Cited by 2 publications

References 37 publications

Fitness Discourse through Individual Posts on Instagram

Fitness Discourse through Individual Posts on Instagram

Positive Semiotics Construction: The Intersectionality of Fat Black Women, from fatphobia, Through Fat Appraisal to fat praise

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