13 research outputs found
Everything old is new again:A comparison of mid-century American EDP schools and contemporary coding bootcamps
Policing âFakeâ femininity:Authenticity, accountability, and influencer antifandom
Although social media influencers enjoy a coveted status position in the popular imagination, their requisite career visibility opens them up to intensified public scrutiny andâmore pointedlyânetworked hate and harassment. Key repositories of such critique are influencer âhateblogsââforums for anti-fandom often dismissed as frivolous gossip or, alternatively, denigrated as conduits for cyberbullying and misogyny. This article draws upon an analysis of a women-dominated community of anti-fans, Get Off My Internets (GOMIBLOG), to show instead how influencer hateblogs are discursive sites of gendered authenticity policing. Findings reveal that GOMI participants wage patterned accusations of duplicity across three domains where women influencers seemingly âhave it allâ: career, relationships, and appearance. But while antifansâ policing of âfakeâ femininity may purport to dismantle the artifice of social media self-enterprise, such expressions fail to advance progressive gender politics, as they target individual-levelârather than structuralâinequities
âChinese Elm 1030595⊠(or can I call you Dale??)â:Communication and representation in mediated encounters with non-human others
Put Down that Phone and Talk to Me: Understanding the Roles of Mobile Phone Norm Adherence and Similarity in Relationships
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The published version will be available in 2014 from http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202140.This study uses co-orientation theory to examine the impact of mobile phone use on relational
quality across three co-present contexts. It investigates the relationship between perceived
similarity, actual similarity, and understanding of mobile phone usage on relationship outcomes,
and uses a new measure of mobile relational interference to assess how commitment,
satisfaction, and liking are affected by perceptions of relational partners' mobile phone use.
Contrary to popular belief, the results from this study of 69 dyads reveals that, at least within a
sample of young Americans, failing to adhere to injunctive (i.e., societal) norms regarding
mobile phone usage does not impact relational quality. Rather, results indicate that perceived
adherence to participants' own internal standards âby both the participant, and the participant's
relational partnerâ and perceived similarity between partners were more influential.
Keywords: commitment; co-orientation theory; etiquette; liking; mobile phone; satisfactio
âThereâs no place for lulz on LOLCatsâ: The role of genre, gender, and group identity in the interpretation and enjoyment of an Internet meme
Internet memes are an increasingly widespread form of vernacular communication. This paper uses LOLCats, one of the most popular and enduring Internet memes, as a case study for exploring some of the social and cultural forces that contribute to memesâ popularity, both individually and as a whole. A qualitative audience study of 36 LOLCat enthusiasts indicates that individual memes can be used by multiple (and vastly different) groups for identity work as well as inâgroup boundary establishment and policing. This study also shows that as memes travel from subculture to the mainstream, they can be sites of contestation and conflict amongst different stakeholders looking to legitimize their claim to the canonical form