1,056 research outputs found
The data in our faces
No full textA recent encounter at a London airport leads Veronica Barassi to reflect on the increasingly pervasive nature of facial recognition technology, and the implications of such data capture for our children’s privacy and surveillance. Veronica Barassi is an anthropologist and Faculty Member in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths University of London, where she convenes the BA Anthropology and Media Degree and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students
My child is an anarchist, a feminist, a communist
No full textVeronica Barassi explores digital parenthood and the everyday construction of children’s digital profiles. She argues that children’s data flows are not only connected to questions about identity and privacy, but to new questions about ‘digital citizenship’. Veronica is an anthropologist in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths University. She is one of the founders of the Goldsmiths Media Ethnography Group and principal investigator on the ‘Social Movements and Media Technologies: Present Challenges and Future Developments’ ESRC Seminar series
Social media time, identity narratives and the construction of political biographies
No full textThe question of identity narrative is at the core of the interaction between social movements and temporalities. In this paper, we draw on long-term qualitative research amongst activists engaged in Italian social movements and argue that identity narratives are often the result of a complex mnemonic, contradictory and open-ended process that spans through a life-time of engagement with multiple collectives. We then question whether the use of social media reshape these dynamics. The analysis shows that the construction of identity narratives on social media tends to take place with knowledge of the complexity and overlaps that characterise these processes online. Nevertheless, the temporality of social media, based on immediacy, archival and predictive time, challenges the unpredictable, contradictory, and open-ended nature of political identity construction offline. The need to escape the hegemonic temporalities of social media poses new challenges to activists in their creative agency.The question of identity narrative is at the core of the interaction between social movements and temporalities. In this paper, we draw on long-term qualitative research amongst activists engaged in Italian social movements and argue that identity narratives are often the result of a complex mnemonic, contradictory and open-ended process that spans through a life-time of engagement with multiple collectives. We then question whether the use of social media reshape these dynamics. The analysis shows that the construction of identity narratives on social media tends to take place with knowledge of the complexity and overlaps that characterise these processes online. Nevertheless, the temporality of social media, based on immediacy, archival and predictive time, challenges the unpredictable, contradictory, and open-ended nature of political identity construction offline. The need to escape the hegemonic temporalities of social media poses new challenges to activists in their creative agen..
Social Media Activism, Self-Representation and the Construction of Political Biographies
No full textThis chapter will provide a overview of the current literature on social media activism. It will show that so far scholars questioned and analysed the different ways in which political activists are appropriating and using social media technologies, to organize and partake into collective actions and mass protests (Gerbaudo, 2012; Cammaerts et al, 2013; Mattoni, 2012; Barassi and Treré, 2012; Barassi, 2015; Kavada, 2014; Castells, 2012; Dencik and Leistert, 2015; Wolfson, 2014; Postill, 2014). They also investigated the complex relationship between technological affordances and the emergence of new political repertoires of protest (Gerbaudo, 2015; Wolfson, 2014) and considered collective understandings of online political identity construction (Kavada, 2015; Milan, 2015). Yet, the chapter will argue that very little attention has been placed on a fundamental aspect of social media activism: the relationship between political self-construction, digital storytelling and identity narratives.
Whilst some communication scholars in the past have considered the relationship between digital storytelling and ‘alternative’ publics (Toft and Bennett 2008; Couldry, 2008), within the current literature on social media activism the only example of work, which tackles the complex relationship between the self-construction of political activists, identity narratives and digital storytelling is the work of Vivienne (2016), which explores activists’ need to use digital technologies as tools for self construction through narratives. The chapter will thus try to overcome such gap in the field by introducing the concept of digital ‘political biography’. Drawing on an the findings of an ethnographic study of activists in Italy, the UK and Spain the chapter will argue that social media have become a platform where activists construct their political biographies with reference to both civic engagement and family life. The understanding of the interconnection between social media technologies and political biographies amongst activists is particularly important today, because it can enable us to ask questions about the tension between the creative elements of social media practices for political activists and the broader political economic implications activists data flows on the commercial Web
Veronica mas, Spirea, Barbarea
No full text1. Nome scientifico: Veronica chamaedrys L.
(Scrophulariaceae)
Nome attuale: Veronica comune
2. Nome scientifico: Spiraea hypericifolia L.
(Rosaceae)
Nome attuale: Spirea spagnola
3. Nome scientifico: Barbarea vulgaris r. Br.
(Brassicaceae, Cruciferae)
Nome attuale: Erba di Santa Barbar
Veronica alpina (Alpine Brooklime) : Alpine Brooklime
No full textClass: Dicotyledoneae
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Veronica
Species: alpin
Veronica peregrina (Hairy Speedwell) : Hairy Speedwell
No full textClass: Dicotyledoneae
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Veronica
Species: peregrin
Ep. #024 - Veronica Strang
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Water, water everywhere. The human sciences have become animated by the politics, ethics and materiality of water of late and for good reason. Our guest (11:13) on this week’s Cultures of Energy podcast was one of the first to get this conversation started. Anthropologist Veronica Strang, currently Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Durham University, is the author of The Meaning of Water (Oxford, 2004) and Water: Culture and Nature (Reaktion, 2015) and a recipient of UNESCO’s International Water Prize. We talk about how the transgressive and transformative properties of water cut across cultures and how its material liquidity complicates our cultural and legal understandings of ownership and property. Veronica explains why we have to think water across scales, from its mediation of individual bodies to how its flows form communities. We talk about the infamous case of Bolivia’s water privatization, efforts to enclose water resources across the world and how contemporary politics of water are undermining democracy. Veronica also reminds us though that efforts to centralize control over water are ancient and that the movements that are now seeking to decentralize water resources also have hope. In closing we discuss cosmological and mythological water beings ranging from rainbow serpents to Chinese water dragons to the Lambton Worm, reputed to live in Durham’s own River Wear. Is our concern with hydration and floods these days informed by the moral economy and sacred vitality of water? Has urbanization caused us to lose touch with the hydrological cycle that so powerfully informed the cultural imaginations of our ancestors? Pour yourself a glass of water and listen on
Lilium convallium flore pleno, Veronica minima, Liliu conualliu, Consolida media
No full text1. Nome scientifico: Convallaria majalis L. cv.
(Liliaceae)
Nome attuale: Mughetto
2. Nome scientifico: Veronica prostrata L.
(Scrophulariaceae)
Nome attuale: Veronica sdraiata
3. Nome scientifico: Convallaria majalis L.
(Liliaceae)
Nome attuale: Mughetto, Giglio delle convalli
4. Nome scientifico: Ajuga reptans L.
(Lamiacee, Labiatae)
Nome attuale: Bugula, Erba di San Lorenzo, Consolid
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