Special Issue on Methods in Visual Politics and Protest
Journal of Digital Social Research,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
6(2), P. 1 - 9
Published: May 24, 2024
This
special
issue
forms
the
second
part
of
a
double
on
methods
in
visual
politics
and
protest.
It
draws
together
five
articles
that
provide
new
pathways
for
deconstructing
political
narratives
offers
reflexive
nuanced
accounts
researching
data
information
shared
social
media
platforms
(here:
TikTok,
Instagram,
Twitter/X,
Facebook).
They
do
so
through
application
feminist
mixed
(femmix),
cross-platform
analysis,
context-aware,
comparative,
triangulated
approaches.
Taken
together,
substantive
compendium
exploring
latest
methodological
developments
Language: Английский
Researching visual protest and politics with “extra-hard” data
Journal of Digital Social Research,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
6(2), P. 46 - 65
Published: May 24, 2024
A
range
of
scholars
have
criticised
scholarly
tendencies
to
focus
on
“easy”
data
such
as
provided
by
the
low-hanging
fruit
Twitter
hashtag
networks
(Burgess
&
Bruns,
2015;
Hargittai,
2020;
Tromble,
2021).
As
a
result,
digital
social
research
has
been
said
create
glut
studies
that
favour
particular
platforms,
forms,
and
networking
dynamics,
choices
may
‘digital
bias’
(Marres,
2017).
These
issues
are
particularly
significant
in
visual
implicit
nature
visuality
means
platform
spaces,
text,
networked
uses
visuals
contribute
how
interpreted
environments.
In
response
this
issue,
we
present
critically
reflect
new
potentialities
software-based
protest
politics,
including:
(1)
rich
cross-project
comparisons;
(2)
complementing
with
on-the-ground
engagement,
(3)
quali-quanti
methods.
allow
for
journeys
through
multi-modality,
hybridity,
comprehensive
curation,
reiterative
image
collection
interpretation,
inclusion
contextual
reflections
focused
research,
elements
provide
meaning,
texture,
context
(=
extra-hard
data).
We
argue
methods
consequently
potential
nuanced,
robust,
versatile
analysis
data,
if
not
necessitate
these
post-API
age
which
easy
access
is
no
longer
given.
Language: Английский
Technocultural worldings: dialectical dynamics in contemporary media landscapes
Feminist Media Studies,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
24(5), P. 927 - 943
Published: June 21, 2024
In
this
piece,
which
frames
the
special
issue
"Technocultural
worldings,"
we
build
on
previous
editions
of
commentary
and
criticism
in
journal.
We
propose
a
theoretically
anchored
way
to
systematically
approach
dynamic,
multidimensional,
heterogeneous
technocultural
communities
that
have
created
their
own
worldings
are
engaged
complex
dialectical
dynamics
within
contemporary
media
landscape.
The
part
these
constituted,
one
hand,
by
collective
sense-making
emancipatory
political
programs
feminist
LGBTI+
initiatives
and,
other,
retrogressive
mobilizations
far-right
anti-gender
movements.
Hence,
argue
come
into
being
due
ability
conferred
digital
spaces
incorporate
both
material
virtual
components
performances
gender
sexuality,
all
diversity.
These
issues
explored
more
detail
eight
articles,
grouped
two
discretely
separate
sections,
exploring
worldings,
while
other
describes
worldings.
Language: Английский
“Platformed post-feminist negotiation:” decoding gender politics in Chinese female-orientated love simulation games
Jie Cui
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Feminist Media Studies,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 18
Published: Nov. 20, 2024
Adopting
a
walkthrough
of
the
game
application,
participant
observation
online
fan
communities,
and
narrative
analysis
storylines,
this
study
seeks
to
understand
how
local
female-orientated
love
simulation
games
re-calibrate
Western
feminist
ideologies
with/through
constructions
romantic
love.
This
argues
that
with
development
backlash
neo-liberal
economic
restructuring
in
post-socialist
China,
female-oriented
now
present
what
I
coin
"Platformed
Post-Feminist
Negotiation"
(hereafter
PPN).
First,
PRP
transplants
post-feminism
veil
latent
toxic
consumerism
rhetoric
women's
empowerment.
Second,
PPN
inherits
Chinese
feminism's
dynamic
negotiation
Confucian
ideals
conservative
state
ideology.
While
compromising
dominant
escape
from
China's
stringent
digital
censorship,
developers
have
aligned
players
carry
out
micro,
covert,
indirect
resistance
protecting
female
sexual
freedom.
Third,
refers
are
platformed
as
technical
tools
manufacture
variant
can
be
defined
empowering
women,
ignoring
structural
gender
inequalities,
negotiating
censorship.
contributes
games'
post-feminist
patterns
contemporary
appropriates
technological
affordances
an
increasingly
society.
Language: Английский