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Extractive Humanitarianism: Participatory Confinement and Unpaid Labor in Refugees Governmentality Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Martina Tazzioli
Abstract This article advances the notion of “extractive humanitarianism” to designate the role played by data extraction and knowledge extraction operations in refugee governmentality. It argues that extractive operations rely on refugees’ active participation to their own governmentality—what I define as participatory confinement. The piece engages with feminist literature on unpaid labor and shows
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“Come On, Put Viber, We Can Drink Coffee Together”: Performing (Im)mobile Intimacy in Turbulent Times Among Aging Migrants Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Earvin Charles B Cabalquinto
Abstract This paper critically examines how elderly people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse(CALD) backgrounds in Victoria, Australia use visual-based platforms in navigating the lockdown in Melbourne, Australia. Based on conducting remote interviews among 15 participants in 2020, the findings show digital practices as integral to forge and maintain cultural identities and social connectedness
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Migration and the Deep Time of Media Infrastructures Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Koen Leurs,Philipp Seuferling
Abstract While infrastructures of media and of migration currently converge in specific ways, in this commentary, we consider how these infrastructures always reflect distinctive moments in media history, as well as in migration history. An archaeological approach to infrastructure posits that media infrastructures do not spring into action fully formed, and neither is there ever a moment when they
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Affect, Creativity and Migrant Belonging Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Raelene Wilding,Monika Winarnita
Abstract Affect and creativity are proposed as offering an important lens for examining the politics of belonging in the everyday lives of migrants and refugees. Mobile emotions are circulated, intensified, and transformed in creative ways through digital media, demanding attention to new opportunities for challenging hierarchies, creating belonging, transforming gendered structures, and reinforcing
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Careful Digital Kinship: Understanding Multispecies Digital Kinship, Choreographies of Care and Older Adults During the Pandemic in Australia Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Larissa Hjorth
Abstract During the pandemic many aspects of our life were recalibrated through the digital—highlighting the paradoxes of the digital for both empowerment and exploitation. In particular, the pandemic demonstrated the increasing role of the digital in shaping, and being shaped by, kinship. Kinship is a complex term that captures our relationality, intimacies and connections. Kinship is always in action
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Biometric Bordering and Automatic Gender Recognition: Challenging Binary Gender Norms in Everyday Biometric Technologies Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 C L Quinan,Mina Hunt
Abstract With the rise of advanced biometric technologies, the surveilling of populations who do not match racial and gender norms has increased. Modern-day biometrics make assumptions about gender and race based on skin color, facial structure, body type, and body parts, which are encoded in predictive algorithms and other AI-driven systems. Growing empirical evidence points to the obstacles this
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Digitalization, Digitization and Datafication: The "Three D" Transformation of Forced Migration Management Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Saskia Witteborn
Abstract Digitalization, digitization, and datafication—referred to as the three Ds transforming forced migration management—are composed of practices of abstraction which constitute socio-spatial processes and the imaginary supporting these processes. Against the backdrop of migration management initiatives in Germany and in the European Union, the article highlights how practices like data sharing
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Digital Diasporas: Staying with the Trouble Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-09 Laura Candidatu,Sandra Ponzanesi
Abstract This commentary proposes a reorientation of diaspora studies towards new configurations of participation and identification. Digital media affordances in this sense are just such new configurations that enable, sustain and multiply diasporic encounters through social media platforms, digital devices and infrastructures. The emerging digital diasporas do not oppose or replace traditional diasporas
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Working with “Wogs”: Aliens, Denizens and the Machinations of Denialism Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Paul Gilroy
Abstract This article uses a discussion of the currency of the word “wog” in Britain to identify a pivotal, racialized position used to contain alien incomers so as to exclude them from belonging to the national community. The argument invites readers to focus on the affective energy specifically endowed in contemporary European “populist” politics by race-talk and the anti-Muslim rhetoric which share
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Borders of Affect: Mobilizing Border Imagery as Civic Engagement Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Roopika Risam
Abstract This article discusses how aesthetic representations of immigrant detention generate affects and empathy in U.S. college students. It describes a qualitative study that suggests that aesthetic representations provoke affective responses and, to some degree, empathy for migrants, in turn contributing to these students’ civic engagement. These responses speak to the presence of what I term “border
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Viral Borders: Migration, Deceleration, and the Re-Bordering of Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Nicholas De Genova
Abstract States’ efforts to govern the COVID-19 public health emergency have been entangled with the ongoing work of producing and enforcing borders. Thus, on a global scale, the public health crisis has been converted into various spectacles of ostensible border “crisis.” Rather than seeing borders as purely a matter of control, however, it is instructive to situate the tactics of border enforcement
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Digital (in-)Visibilities: Spatializing and Visualizing Politics of Voice Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Myria Georgiou
Abstract This article focuses on the conditions of migrant (in-)visibilities in digital mediascapes. Addressing the ambivalent and complex communicative architecture of voice in the context of digitization and migration, it tackles three fundamental questions: Does digital visibility contest political silencing of the migrant subject? Is the migrant who speaks also heard? And what kind of recognition
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A Lot of Straddling and Squirming: Taking Queer Migrant Stories beyond the Academic and Digital Walls Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Łukasz Szulc
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Vital Dataveillance: Investigating Data in Exchange for Vitality through South Korea’s COVID-19 Technogovernance Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Jeehyun Jenny Lee
Abstract Through a case study of South Korea's tracking infrastructure, this study critically examines new surveillance technologies deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic. I consider the ways that these technologies were widely framed as beneficial and benign, contributing to their widespread acceptance, and normalizing their pervasive and intrusive tracking capacities. By employing cluster criticism
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Mapping Interventions: Toward a Decolonial and Indigenous Praxis across Communication Subfields Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Tiara R Na’puti,Joëlle M Cruz
Abstract Engaging organizational communication and rhetorical studies subfields, we develop a case for decolonial and Indigenous approaches that offer texture and depth. In the process, we flip the existing topographic “map” of the field and shift Eurocentric canons undergirding cultural and critical Communication Studies. Drawing on vignettes from our fieldworks, we argue for a decolonial critical
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Female Masculinity and Transgressive Temporality: How Orange is the New Black Recontextualizes Prisoner Agency Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Jaspreet K Nijjar
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News Fixers at the Digital Interface: Precarious Labor and International Journalism in the 21st Century Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Lindsay Palmer
Abstract This article conducts a discursive interface analysis of World Fixer, the most visible online platform currently connecting foreign correspondents with local news workers who can help them translate interviews, navigate unfamiliar places, and stay safe in the field. Placing Johanna Drucker’s theory of the digital interface into conversation with the critical frameworks found in global communication
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Beyond Benson: From Law & Order: SVU to Holland’s Grenslanders, Female Masculinity in Crime Dramas Fall Victim to Feminized Tropes Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Lauren Alexandra Sowa
Abstract This article analyzes television’s (2010s) female detectives, Olivia Benson of Law & Order: SVU (NBC, 1999–) and Tara Dessel of Grenslanders (AVROTROS, 2019), as a cross-cultural example of compromised and negotiated female masculinity. Their designed traits of “heterosexuality” and/or “the feminine” are used as countering affects to undermine the female masculinity and queer ambiguity of
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Mentorship, Critical Autoethnography and the Practices of Self-Reflexivity: Investing in an Academy that Does Not Yet Exist Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 María Elena Cepeda
Abstract I explore the topic of mentorship as a powerful form of feminist contestation from within, particularly for students and faculty of color. Inspired by the scholarship of women of color Communications and Media Studies scholars and specifically the literature on critical autoethnography, I argue for a more self-reflexive approach to mentoring rooted in an awareness of the dynamics of power
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Unmasking the Strongblackwoman in Mentoring Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Aisha Durham
Abstract The strongBlackwoman (SBW; Morgan, 1999) is a hip hop generation cultural script strategically performed by Black women to project authority, competency, and togetherness. It acts as psychic armor to shield against the deadly daily dagger of White heteropatriarchy in the academy. The author recites two indelible moments when she engages as mentor to narratively stage unmasking. Each moment
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Mentoring at the Boundary: Interdisciplinarity and the International Student of Color in Communication Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-20 Madhavi Murty
Abstract In this paper, I will discuss mentoring within the discipline of Communication by centering international scholars, who are translated as people of color in the U.S. and are engaged with questions drawn from the context of their nations of origin. How do you enable such a scholar to traverse boundaries national and disciplinary with the selfassurance that ostensibly comes from feeling at home
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The Signifying Tomboy and the Thai TV Series Club Friday To Be Continued: She Changed Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-20 Shi-Yan Chao
Abstract This article examines the representation of same-sex attracted women in contemporary Thai culture by using the television series Club Friday To Be Continued: She Changed (2016) as the prime example. The show’s portrayal of the tomboy protagonist is not uncontroversial, given that her unfolding love for a man betrays the tomboy’s original self-identity as a woman-loving woman. It invokes the
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Intersectionality and Mentoring as Organic Praxis: When Feminist Killjoys are Too Hot to be Mentors Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Angharad N Valdivia
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Between Commerciality and Authenticity: The Imaginary of Social Media Influencers in the Platform Economy Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Arturo Arriagada,Sophie Bishop
Abstract Influencers are highly visible tastemakers who professionally publish content on social media platforms. In their work, influencers are tasked with reconciling their contradictory positioning—they are both promoters of consumption, and marshals of “authentic” sociality and community. Influencers thus organize their social world in ways that enable them to justify moving between two contradictory
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Enshrining Terror for the Nation: Affect and Nationalism at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Tim Gruenewald
Abstract The National September 11 Memorial and Museum (9/11 MM) employs affective rhetoric to enshrine the trauma of September 11 in support of U.S. nationalism. Applying Brian Massumi's understanding of affect as intensity, I examine how the site's rhetoric amplifies affect. The memorial pools and many signifiers of destruction magnify affective intensity through scale and repetition. The 9/11 MM
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Prying the Doors Open: Women of Color Mentoring in the Field of Communication Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-14 Manoucheka Celeste,Ralina L Joseph
Abstract For the past few decades mentoring has moved from being a buzzword in a few select programs into a major institutional goal. From large corporations to small universities, leaders recognize the importance of those with more experience guiding junior employees and students. Colleges and universities have taken the lead nationwide in mentoring efforts, with many having exemplary peer mentoring
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Assessing Programmatic Mentoring: Requiem for Carmen Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Robin R Means Coleman,Jennifer McGee Reyes
Abstract This essay is not about getting good mentoring. Rather, it is about the ways in which institutions must invest in providing resources for professional success and wellness, with a particular understanding of the needs of women of color. To ensure faculty retention and success, institutions must not only provide resources but also engage in exacting assessment practices to ensure programmatic
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The Robert Capa Myth: Hegemonic Masculinity in Photojournalism’s Professional Indoctrination Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-30 Christopher T Assaf,Mary Angela Bock
Abstract This project examines the mythos of famed war photographer Robert Capa and its influence on the photojournalistic canon. Using Barthes’ concept of ideological myth as a foundation, the project examines four sets of discourses about Capa: his own self-promotion, biographies, exhibition reviews, and photojournalistic textbooks. The analysis suggests that the Capa myth is characterized by hegemonic
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Composing an Oppositional Discourse in Coke Studio Pakistan Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 Ryan A D’Souza
Abstract Coke Studio Pakistan (CSP) is a television show aired in Pakistan and available worldwide on digital platforms. The show features well-known and up-and-coming music artists alongside a studio band who cover contemporary and familiar songs. Some of the popular songs are fusions of traditional compositions and Western instrumentation. The Sufi renditions on the show are popular as well. The
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(De/Re)Constructing LGBT Characters in Latin America: The Implications of Mexican Dubbing for Translating Marginalized Identities Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-02 Laurena Bernabo
Abstract This article responds to calls for more detailed analyses of localization around the world (E. Castelló, 2009; E. Levine, 2009; S. Waisbord & S. Jalfin, 2009) by examining a Mexican dubbing company and its translation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) characters for Latin American audiences. Gay, lesbian, and transgender characters’ identities are alternately maintained and
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“K-pop is Rupturing Chilean Society”: Fighting With Globalized Objects in Localized Conflicts Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Camilo Diaz Pino
Abstract Amid a rapidly growing wave of anti-neoliberal protest emerging in late 2019, Chile’s government scrambled to respond to the massive scale of this dissidence by attempting to find some external agent to pin the blame on. Initially seeking evidence of Venezuelan or Russian involvement, the state eventually pinned the blame on K-pop as an agent of “social rupture.” This article examines this
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“The Year of the Cheerleader Lawsuits”: Paradoxical Sensemaking and Postfeminism in Reporting on Gender-Based Harassment Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Caitlyn M Jarvis,Jessica R Welch
Abstract In 2014, former cheerleaders from five separate National Football League (NFL) teams in the United States sought legal reparations for wage theft and gender-based harassment. Within these claims, the women sought to bring to light the culture of fear, mistreatment, and silence that they experienced while working within the NFL. Using reports on these lawsuits as a case study, this study critically
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Chronicles of a Meme Foretold: Political Memes as Folk Memory in India Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-19 Anirban K Baishya
On 8 November 2016, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in India announced that it was demonetizing currency notes of Rs.500 and Rs.1000 denominations. Ostensibly a move to flush out “black money” (illegal or undeclared income), the government’s actions have been questioned in the wake of the ensuing chaos. Long queues of people began to throng outside of banks and ATMs to exchange old
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Chronicles of a Meme Foretold: Political Memes as Folk Memory in India Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-07-19 Anirban K Baishya
On 8 November 2016, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in India announced that it was demonetizing currency notes of Rs.500 and Rs.1000 denominations. Ostensibly a move to flush out “black money” (illegal or undeclared income), the government’s actions have been questioned in the wake of the ensuing chaos. Long queues of people began to throng outside of banks and ATMs to exchange old
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Hyper-Local Digital News Platforms in Eastern India: A Dynamic Space for Regional Language Media Culture Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Chatterjee M, Pal S.
Abstract“Jumbos are on the road! Before you go out, follow our updates!” No mainstream media outlet would carry such news pertaining to a remote town in Eastern India. However, a hyperlocal news website did. This essay maps the growth of such digital media platforms, whether in the form of websites, YouTube channels or Facebook pages that cater to smalltowns and districts in eastern India. We show
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Prison Tech: Imagining the Prison as Lagging Behind and as a Test Bed for Technology Advancement Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Anne Kaun, Fredrik Stiernstedt
This article explores the ways in which prisons are imagined as sites of technology development. By attending to expos that showcase prison technologies and constitute “live theatres of technology” (L. Cornfeld, 2018), we carve out ambivalent sociotechnical imaginaries of technological backwardness that are combined with the idea of radical technological innovation to reform the justice system. In
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Vernacular Discourses of Disruption in Alternative Digital Space Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Purba Das
This article explores the discursive strategies employed by Dalits and other marginalized groups to highlight inspirational stories of bottom-up change across rural India. These agential narratives are featured in the community-run alternative digital media portal, Video Volunteer’s series, “Videos that Created Change.” I contend that marginalized groups’ articulation of structural change against systemic
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Coalitions of Socio-Technical Infrastructure: Platforms as Essential Services Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Aditi Surie
This commentary explores the experimental ways in which delivery platforms and local governments in India collaborated during the COVID19 lockdown in India in 2020. The case of one district government, which partnered with a large, corporate food delivery platform is explored here to investigate the platform functionalities that were the most useful to the local government. My exploration highlights
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Introduction to the Special Issue Forum “Digital Cultures of South Asia: Inequalities, Informatization, Infrastructures” Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Kalyani Chadha, Sangeet Kumar, Radhika Parameswaran
This short introductory essay first lays out the broader map of the digital media ecosystem in South Asia and then establishes the importance of this region in the global south--with its growing networked population--for understanding the future trajectories of global digital culture. Just as any other part of the world that is gradually getting on board the digital bandwagon, the South Asian digital
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Digital Pitfalls: The Politics of Digitalization in Bangladesh Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Abdul Aziz
The state-led investment in digital infrastructure under the ruling party’s political agenda of “Digital Bangladesh” has given rise to scholarly and policy debates, especially around issues of digital surveillance and media censorship. Such concerns have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article analyzes contemporary Bangladesh in the context of emerging trends related to the digitalization
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Hyper-Local Digital News Platforms in Eastern India: A Dynamic Space for Regional Language Media Culture Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Chatterjee M, Pal S.
Abstract“Jumbos are on the road! Before you go out, follow our updates!” No mainstream media outlet would carry such news pertaining to a remote town in Eastern India. However, a hyperlocal news website did. This essay maps the growth of such digital media platforms, whether in the form of websites, YouTube channels or Facebook pages that cater to smalltowns and districts in eastern India. We show
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Prison Tech: Imagining the Prison as Lagging Behind and as a Test Bed for Technology Advancement Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Kaun A, Stiernstedt F.
AbstractThis article explores the ways in which prisons are imagined as sites of technology development. By attending to expos that showcase prison technologies and constitute “live theatres of technology” (L. Cornfeld, 2018), we carve out ambivalent sociotechnical imaginaries of technological backwardness that are combined with the idea of radical technological innovation to reform the justice system
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Vernacular Discourses of Disruption in Alternative Digital Space Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Das P.
AbstractThis article explores the discursive strategies employed by Dalits and other marginalized groups to highlight inspirational stories of bottom-up change across rural India. These agential narratives are featured in the community-run alternative digital media portal, Video Volunteer’s series, “Videos that Created Change.” I contend that marginalized groups’ articulation of structural change against
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Coalitions of Socio-Technical Infrastructure: Platforms as Essential Services Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Aditi Surie
This commentary explores the experimental ways in which delivery platforms and local governments in India collaborated during the COVID19 lockdown in India in 2020. The case of one district government, which partnered with a large, corporate food delivery platform is explored here to investigate the platform functionalities that were the most useful to the local government. My exploration highlights
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Introduction to the Special Issue Forum “Digital Cultures of South Asia: Inequalities, Informatization, Infrastructures” Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Kalyani Chadha, Sangeet Kumar, Radhika Parameswaran
This short introductory essay first lays out the broader map of the digital media ecosystem in South Asia and then establishes the importance of this region in the global south--with its growing networked population--for understanding the future trajectories of global digital culture. Just as any other part of the world that is gradually getting on board the digital bandwagon, the South Asian digital
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Digital Pitfalls: The Politics of Digitalization in Bangladesh Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Aziz A.
AbstractThe state-led investment in digital infrastructure under the ruling party’s political agenda of “Digital Bangladesh” has given rise to scholarly and policy debates, especially around issues of digital surveillance and media censorship. Such concerns have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article analyzes contemporary Bangladesh in the context of emerging trends related to the digitalization
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“My Money and My Heart”: Buying a Birkin and Boundary Work Online Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Jordan Foster
Abstract YouTube videos document the purchase and “unboxing” of status goods, highlighting the intense emotional fervor that follows. Commenters respond with praise while expressing envy for the goods on their person. Taken together, online videos and the comments that attend them raise a number of questions about how we evaluate fashion purchases and the boundaries and inequalities these purchases
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Democratizing the Op-Ed: Anti-Caste Counterpublics & the Mainstream News Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Pallavi Rao
Abstract How have anti-caste commentators in mainstream English news in India participated in media discourses on caste? In this article, I draw attention to a digital space of contestation where anti-caste writings have gained prominence—the opinion column in online news platforms. I am particularly interested in how anti-caste writings, bearing the imprint of authorial agency, have emerged in the
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Book Interview for The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Darshana Sreedhar Mini
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Shadow Politics: Front Stage and the Veneer of Volunteerism Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-21 Sahana Udupa
This article proposes the metaphor of “shadow” to examine two interrelated aspects of digital politics in India: online surveillance of politically inclined actors and datafied shadow texts aimed at managing front stage politics. The specificity of “shadow politics” emerges from ongoing transformations that are deeply interwoven with the digital, first with the data driven confidence around the “total
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Shadow Politics: Front Stage and the Veneer of Volunteerism Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-21 Sahana Udupa
This article proposes the metaphor of “shadow” to examine two interrelated aspects of digital politics in India: online surveillance of politically inclined actors and datafied shadow texts aimed at managing front stage politics. The specificity of “shadow politics” emerges from ongoing transformations that are deeply interwoven with the digital, first with the data driven confidence around the “total
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Climate Strikes in Millennial India: Social Capital and “On-Ground” Networks in Digital-First Movements Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-21 Aasim Khan,Sarayu Natarajan,Sakshi Bhalla
Abstract In September 2019, young people in India led a series of protest events, taking inspiration from a digital campaign for a series of Climate Strikes. Our article explores these events in the context of “millennial India,” particularly in terms of the networks that emerged in the course of climate action in two different regions. By using evidence from Delhi in the north and Bengaluru in the
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Media Censorship: Obscuring Autocracy and Hindutva-ideology in Indian Governance Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-21 Smith Mehta,D Bondy Valdovinos Kaye
Abstract This article draws on a political economy approach to examine the politics of censorship that undergirds the current Indian online audio-visual sector. Through our analysis of interviews with media creators, government policies and trade press literature, we probe the implications of censorship on India’s burgeoning online production culture and we contest the Indian government’s ideological
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Talking Through Race: Two Raced Women’s Tinder Stories Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-11 Lee J.
AbstractWhile as an epitome of contemporary pairing culture Tinder has been reported as dangerous for its association with sex-centered post-feminist culture, including hook ups and toxic masculinity, an original case study exploring women of color (WOC) in the culture has not been undertaken yet. By inviting WOC Tinder users into an ethnographic study, I show the instability of race that mediates
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Talking Through Race: Two Raced Women’s Tinder Stories Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-11 Jin Lee
While as an epitome of contemporary pairing culture Tinder has been reported as dangerous for its association with sex-centered post-feminist culture, including hook ups and toxic masculinity, an original case study exploring women of color (WOC) in the culture has not been undertaken yet. By inviting WOC Tinder users into an ethnographic study, I show the instability of race that mediates their lived
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The Angel as Wish Image: Justin Bieber, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Absolution Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-05 Clare O’Connor
In the early 21st century, the angel became a recurrent image within the visual economy of pop music stardom. By considering the case of Justin Bieber (whose angel invocations give expression to his struggles with celebrity, faith, and the pathology of Whiteness), the author reveals how biographical factors alone cannot account for the angel’s contemporary resonance. Instead, and drawing upon Walter
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The Angel as Wish Image: Justin Bieber, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Absolution Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-05 Clare O’Connor
In the early 21st century, the angel became a recurrent image within the visual economy of pop music stardom. By considering the case of Justin Bieber (whose angel invocations give expression to his struggles with celebrity, faith, and the pathology of Whiteness), the author reveals how biographical factors alone cannot account for the angel’s contemporary resonance. Instead, and drawing upon Walter
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Telecocooning in the age of (im)mobility Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-27 Earvin Charles B Cabalquinto
The onset of a global pandemic has put contemporary social life on a stand still. People’s movements have been constrained due to border closures, travel restrictions, and lockdowns. As a result, many people have increasingly relied on digital communication technologies to forge and maintain ties. Notably, navigating an indefinite period of physical separation through digital media use is a familiar
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Academic Caregivers on Organizational and Community Resilience in Academia (Fuck Individual Resilience) Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-24 Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Emily T Cripe, Brooke Foucault Welles, Shannon C McGregor, Katy E Pearce, Nikki Usher, Jessica Vitak
Crises, whether society-wide or personal, are endemic to the human condition. Yet academia and its associated institutions persist in having insufficient scaffolding to support its members during periods of crisis. No one knows this more acutely than academic caregivers of children, elders, disabled adults, and other loved ones with special needs. Academic caregivers are disproportionately women, and
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Precarity in the Academy and Solidarity Amidst COVID-19: Resisting Employment Restrictions on International Graduate Students Communication, Culture & Critique (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-24 Jing Jiang
Amidst worsening precarity exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, this article analyzes my employment crisis to highlight the critical value of communication in solidarity efforts. My case is set in U.S. academia, where graduate assistant labor is increasingly necessary for universities to function (Kroeger, McNicholas, Wilpert, & Wolfe, 2018, January 11). However, due to their student–worker identity