White stars and orange celebrities: the affective production of whiteness in humorous celebrity-gossip blogs

Graefer, Anne

doi:10.1080/19392397.2013.798913

Cited by 12 publications

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“…Mrozinski's skills as a public health pedagogue are further suggested by his use of humour. As one study argues: ‘Humour, and the complex and contradictory affects that it can engender, can be seen as one affective-discursive tool through which social norms are made visible, felt in the body and reinforced/re-negotiated’ (Graefer, 2014, p. 109). The humorous tone of Mrozinski's videos has the potential to generate emotions such as joy and feelings of empowerment – namely empowerment through being able to sort fact from fiction.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public health pedagogy and digital misinformation: Health professional influencers and the politics of expertise

Thompson

2022

Journal of Sociology

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This article asks: ‘To what extent can health professional influencers function as health pedagogues, educating their audiences and protecting public health in an era of digital misinformation?’ The article teases out that question by applying Content Analysis and Framing Analysis to a selection of TikTok and Instagram posts by Dr Michael Mrozinski, a Scottish general practitioner who is based in Australia. The posts seek to debunk online misinformation and provide facts regarding COVID-19. Mrozinski's social media content exemplifies what the article terms ‘public health pedagogy’ (PHP) – pedagogy that is informed by public health principles and that is undertaken outside traditional educational institutions. The article also asks: ‘How exactly does Mrozinski respond to misinformation actors and to what extent does this diminish the effectiveness of his PHP?’ The article investigates whether Mrozinski's hostility towards these actors actually invokes stereotypes of medical experts as elitist and uncaring. Those stereotypes are commonly expounded by misinformation and conspiracy actors.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Public health pedagogy and digital misinformation: Health professional influencers and the politics of expertise

Thompson

2022

Journal of Sociology

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“…Health and happiness are embodied on goop.com by the slim, white, class-privileged female who overwhelmingly inhabits the pages throughout the site, refractions of Gwyneth Paltrow herself. This image of ‘idealized whiteness’ (Graefer 2014; see also Shome 2014; Wilkes 2021) cultivates a disciplined and docile body. Always striving for the happiest, healthiest version of herself, Paltrow is—and the reader is asked to be—morally responsible and virtuous.…”

Section: Achieving Wellness: the Good Citizen Exerts Controlmentioning

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“…Although the franchise has come under intense criticism and legal challenges based on unsubstantiated health claims, and potentially harmful products and advice, 1 the company continues to enjoy immense success, with a reported net worth of $250 million (Brodesser-Akner 2018). Gwyneth Paltrow herself has been identified as ‘a key example of the embodiment of idealized whiteness’, in large part ‘because she is discursively placed in proximity to objects and values which are culturally judged to be good’ (Graefer 2014:110). As the face and name of Goop, her embodiment of idealized whiteness—which is also intertwined with gender and class—is a dominant motif of the franchise.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘You probably have a parasite’: Neoliberal risk and the discursive construction of the body in the wellness industry

Eberhardt

2022

Lang. Soc.

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In this article, I ask how the body is discursively constructed within the wellness industry. I analyze a corpus of articles from the Goop franchise, examining how bodies are constructed, and how subjects are impelled to act within contemporary neoliberal risk culture. Corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis reveals that the body is ultimately constructed as unwell and at risk, by virtue of its presence in the environment. Faced with this inescapable risk, the neoliberal citizen is responsible for managing the self in ever-increasing domains. I link the particularities of this discursive embodiment to larger cultural imperatives of self-surveillance, discipline, and control, and argue that it is particularly a white female subject who is interpellated within this discourse. Throughout, the wellness industry is revealed as propelling the interminable cycle of the project of the self, and as a contemporary mechanism for the reproduction of docile white female bodies. (Discursive embodiment, neoliberal ideology, risk society, corpus analysis, critical discourse analysis, feminist critique)*

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“…This means thinking not only that it is distance that enables laughter but also that laughter might create distance (between me as a researcher and those whose lives are directly threatened by racism) and in this process of creating distance, enhance racialized power relations. If race is understood as something that can be produced, dismantled and remade through situated and momentary feelings (Faria and Mollet, 2014: 2) and through affective landscapes (Graefer, 2014: 107), it is exactly such processes that take place through the affective reactions that at first glance appear as a trivial and private experience of the researcher.…”

Section: Distances and Proximities: Bringing Whiteness Into Beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Uneasy laughter: encountering the anti-immigration debate

Mäkinen

2016

Qualitative Research

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This article interrogates instances of laughter in doing research from a methodological and ethical perspective. Both the theoretical insights of the ‘turn to affect’ and the methodological discussions concerning emotional reflexivity in social sciences are combined in order to explore the ambiguities unravelled by ‘uneasy laughter’ in the particular context of researching the Finnish anti-immigration debate. Through careful reflection, laughter can be recognised as a beginning from which to understand relations of power and the production of whiteness and class in the debate, and the changing place of the researcher in all this. Furthermore, it is suggested that understanding affects as embedded in power relations makes it possible to account also for those affective and emotional reactions that are deemed shameful and ‘wrong’ in doing research. Exploring laughter thus allows approaches in which unruly and ethically questionable affects can be made part of an ethically responsible research.

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White stars and orange celebrities: the affective production of whiteness in humorous celebrity-gossip blogs

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Public health pedagogy and digital misinformation: Health professional influencers and the politics of expertise

Public health pedagogy and digital misinformation: Health professional influencers and the politics of expertise

‘You probably have a parasite’: Neoliberal risk and the discursive construction of the body in the wellness industry

Uneasy laughter: encountering the anti-immigration debate

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