1,720,965 research outputs found
The Social Media Feeds of Loose Women: Taking the Temperature of Popular Feminism
Full text linkITV’s Loose Women is a live British panel discussion show presented by and for women that attracts daily audiences of up to one million and many more through social media (Degun 2020).1 The show recorded an audience of 1.7 million on 19 February 2021 and greater audience share as a result of the pandemic (Thinkbox 2021). As the only all-female daytime programme on UK mainstream television, it claims to offer “real, authentic and empowered women having an upfront and candid discussion” (ITV 2017) but given its preoccupation with showbiz values and submission to commercial logic can it realistically offer a subversive and grounded form of feminism? As a manifestation of what Sarah Banet-Weiser has termed ‘popular feminism,’ Loose Women seeks to raise its visibility through a cloud of commercialized activity on social media (Banet-Weiser 2018).
This chapter draws on a thematic analysis of two years-worth of programming between 24 May 2017 and 21 November 2019. The dataset consists of two editions a week to May 2018, with additional sampling in quarterly one-month batches to November 2019. All content, including advertising breaks, was noted and analysed, together with a qualitative case analysis of particular social media content on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook relating to three ‘stunts’: a rendition of cosmetic surgery as entertainment (10 July 2018): a spectacular row between a panellist and a guest (29 August 2018): and a guest appearance by the Baywatch actress, Pamela Anderson, 53, in bed with her fifth husband (19 February 2021).
The hypothesis behind the research is that Loose Women provides an authentic and diverse representation of the dilemmas facing women while also submitting to a relentless and increasingly mediatized commercial logic. In this sense, it can be considered to be a feminist project. Yet as a multi-media brand it “enables some women to have spectacular visibility, while others are obscured and eclipsed” by providing points of discrimination between we, the panel, and they, the audience (Banet-Weiser 2018, 31). Among the themes explored by the wider study of which this chapter is a part, are ageing, ‘ordinary’ celebrity, showbiz culture, body image and the beauty myth, and the creeping commercialization of screen content. Particular focus is directed at ‘ageing anxiety,’ cosmetic surgery and the digital manipulation of image to examine the extent to which such representation normalizes ‘regulatory regimes’ of the body. This chapter will consider whether Loose Women in its
online and broadcast forms offers an empowering and holistic vision of the female life-course that is often absent from mainstream media. How do the opinions of viewers as expressed online differ from some of the assumptions that appear to guide the show’s editorial policy? How does the show keep itself true to its founding values while also embracing the chase fo
“We Need Men to Be MEN” Constructions of Masculinities in Online Responses to the 2019 “We Believe” Gillette Advertisement
Full text link“We Need Men to Be MEN” Constructions of Masculinities in Online Responses to the 2019 “We Believe” Gillette Advertisement
Full text linkGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
“Well Yes, Sir, I’m Fat, and Yes, Sometimes I’m a Bitch” : Empowering Representations of Fat Identity in Plus-Size Women’s Fashion Blogs
No full textPeer reviewe
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
- …
