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Social Media and Gendered Power: Young Women, Authenticity, and the Curation of Self
No full textThe chapter looks at the relationship between social media and gender by exploring the role of authenticity through the curation of the self-online by young women. It begins by discussing traditional psychological research on the presentation of self and then moves to the production of gender online. By drawing on a theory of power that is relational, the discussion is able to attend to the ways in which the role of authenticity can serve to facilitate or hinder agency. To illustrate how these might play out, we focus our attention on three practices associated with young women: the posting of selfies, the engagement in activism, and the promotion of celebrity to explore the production of intersectional online selves through notions of agency and authenticity. We complete our chapter with a reconsideration of the gendering of power in social media
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Introduction: Feminist Theorizing on Power, Gender, and Psychology
No full textFeminists have long argued that, under patriarchy, power is the key to understanding gender. Yet power has historically been under-theorized in psychology, including in the psychology of women and gender. The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology is meant to redress this omission. In this introductory chapter, the aims, goals, and scope of the handbook are described, and brief summaries of sections and chapters are provided. The aim was to center power in the analysis of gender, but to do so specifically in relation to psychological theory, research, and praxis, and with as much breadth, creativity in approach, and diversity of perspective as possible. Thirty-one substantive chapters, from 60 authors, provide an innovative approach to the conceptualization of traditional psychological sub-disciplines through engagement with a wide range of “real world” concerns: understandings of history and politics, institutions and settings, and bodies and identities. Moreover, the authors endeavour to challenge more traditional areas of psychological attention such as families and development, mental and physical health, violence and abuse, communication, and technology. The handbook concludes by focusing on the implications and applications of concerns that have more recently surfaced around backlash, postfeminism, and the female body
Social Media and Gendered Power: Young Women, Authenticity, and the Curation of Self
No full textThe chapter looks at the relationship between social media and gender by exploring the role of authenticity through the curation of the self-online by young women. It begins by discussing traditional psychological research on the presentation of self and then moves to the production of gender online. By drawing on a theory of power that is relational, the discussion is able to attend to the ways in which the role of authenticity can serve to facilitate or hinder agency. To illustrate how these might play out, we focus our attention on three practices associated with young women: the posting of selfies, the engagement in activism, and the promotion of celebrity to explore the production of intersectional online selves through notions of agency and authenticity. We complete our chapter with a reconsideration of the gendering of power in social media
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Conclusion: the challenges and opportunities of an integrative approach
No full textFeminisms and psychologies: multiple meanings, diverse practices, and forging possibilities in an age of globalization
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Although feminism has influenced psychological theory and practice across much of the world, their intersection has rarely been an easy one - particularly in post-colonial, and more recently, globalizing and transnational contexts. The Handbook of International Feminisms offers a dynamic and nuanced picture of the diversity of feminism and its challenges around the world, both inside and outside of academia.
As seen in these pages, the very concept of ‘feminist psychology’ varies widely, as do the conditions under which it struggles or flourishes. Resistance to feminism may come from psychology in particular or the culture at large, in clashes between egalitarian ideals and longstanding cultural beliefs and practices that are inimical to women's interests. In some countries, the emergence of psychology and/or feminism is often seen as Western interference rather than welcome innovation. In others, activist psychologists are pressured to downplay aspects of their work or risk marginalization by the mainstream. Throughout this volume, the coverage is balanced between local context and global connection and commitment
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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