Search Results - "European journal of cultural studies"

The affective, cultural and psychic life of postfeminism: A postfeminist sensibility 10 years on by Gill, Rosalind

“…This article revisits the notion of ‘postfeminism’ 10 years after its formulation in critical terms as a sensibility characterizing cultural life. The article…”
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‘If the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl aesthetic has taught us anything, it’s that teenage girls rule the internet right now’: TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis by Kennedy, Melanie

“…During the global lockdowns brought about by the Coronavirus crisis, TikTok saw a phenomenal rise in users and cultural visibility. This short essay argues…”
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Algorithmic culture by Striphas, Ted

“…Over the last 30 years or so, human beings have been delegating the work of culture – the sorting, classifying and hierarchizing of people, places, objects and…”
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Alt. Health Influencers: how wellness culture and web culture have been weaponised to promote conspiracy theories and far-right extremism during the COVID-19 pandemic by Baker, Stephanie Alice

“…This article examines the proliferation of alt. health influencers during the COVID-19 pandemic. I analyse the self-presentation strategies used by four alt…”
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‘We are doing better’: Biopolitical nationalism and the COVID-19 virus in East Asia by Kloet, Jeroen de, Lin, Jian, Chow, Yiu Fai

“…The COVID-19 pandemic stirs up strong nationalist and localist sentiments; places pride themselves on containing the virus more effectively: We are doing…”
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Beauty surveillance: The digital self-monitoring cultures of neoliberalism by Elias, Ana Sofia, Gill, Rosalind

“…This article argues that ‘beauty apps’ are transforming the arena of appearance politics and foregrounds a theoretical architecture for critically…”
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Clap for carers? From care gratitude to care justice by Wood, Helen, Skeggs, Beverley

“…As we write this short piece in late April 2020, Matt Hancock, the Conservative government’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in the United…”
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Our metrics, ourselves: A hundred years of self-tracking from the weight scale to the wrist wearable device by Crawford, Kate, Lingel, Jessa, Karppi, Tero

“…The recent proliferation of wearable self-tracking devices intended to regulate and measure the body has brought contingent questions of controlling, accessing…”
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White tears, white rage: Victimhood and (as) violence in mainstream feminism by Phipps, Alison

“…Using #MeToo as a starting point, this paper argues that the cultural power of mainstream white feminism partly derives from the cultural power of white tears…”
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‘We’re all in this together’: Commodified notions of connection, care and community in brand responses to COVID-19 by Sobande, Francesca

“…The current COVID-19 (coronavirus) global pandemic has resulted in a wave of advertising and marketing approaches that are based on commodified concepts of…”
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The third wave of coworking: ‘Neo-corporate’ model versus ‘resilient’ practice by Gandini, Alessandro, Cossu, Alberto

“…Coworking spaces have been affirmed in recent years as a mainstream, ‘neo-corporate’ model of flexible work in post-recession, urban knowledge economies…”
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Pandemic and its metaphors: Sontag revisited in the COVID-19 era by Craig, David

“…As the COVID-19 crisis spreads around the globe, the rhetoric about the pandemic evoked by journalists and politicians harks back to that of prior diseases and…”
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MeToo, popular feminism and the news : A content analysis of UK newspaper coverage by De Benedictis, Sara, Orgad, Shani, Rottenberg, Catherine

“…This article examines the first 6 months of #MeToo’s coverage in the UK press, revealing how newspapers played an important role in heightening the campaign’s…”
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Mummy influencers and professional sharenting by Jorge, Ana, Marôpo, Lidia, Coelho, Ana Margarida, Novello, Lia

“…Sharenting (sharing parenting on social media) has become a widespread activity, and some of those parents become family influencers. Female influencers have…”
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The work of culture and C-19 by Banks, Mark

“…This article offers some initial commentary on the cultural impacts of COVID-19. It first considers how the pandemic might already have shifted the focus - or…”
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The ambivalence of coworking: On the politics of an emerging work practice by de Peuter, Greig, Cohen, Nicole S, Saraco, Francesca

“…Self-employed media and cultural workers are key users of co-working spaces, where a growing number of independent workers share desks and office amenities,…”
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The production of prediction: What does machine learning want? by Mackenzie, Adrian

“…Retail, media, finance, science, industry, security and government increasingly depend on predictions produced through techniques such as machine learning. How…”
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‘Being open, but sometimes closed’. Conviviality in a super-diverse London neighbourhood by Wessendorf, Susanne

“…The London Borough of Hackney is one of the most diverse places in the United Kingdom. It is characterized not only by a multiplicity of ethnic minorities but…”
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Curation by code: Infomediaries and the data mining of taste by Morris, Jeremy Wade

“…Automated recommendation systems now occupy a central position in the circulation of media and cultural products. Using music as a test case, this article…”
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Toxic White masculinity, post-truth politics and the COVID-19 infodemic by Harsin, Jayson

“…This article demonstrates and critiques the coronavirus’ cultural agency, which thanks to this human assistance, worked in synergy with its biological form…”
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