Lecture 22: Social Media & Co-Production of Bodies Flashcards
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What is this section about?
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- Exploring cultural significance of body images
- Social scientific research on body image
- Alternative ways to think about the issues:
- Materiality of “body images”
- With social media, who are actors (creators)?
- Hermeneutic approach
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General Proposition
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Template of most empirical studies
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Major mechanisms
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- In a society where media is driven by the motive of making profit, they are motivated by images
- Being pleased in such an environ. is likely to affect your well-being (emotional reactions), more body-related thoghts
- Social learning
- Heightened Body concerns
- social comparison
- self discrepancy
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Social learning (Major mechanisms)
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When exposed to images, people will emulate the character, thinking they will get social rewards
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self discrepancy
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- Caused by comparison between actual self and desired self
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Main Findings
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- Exp. proved causal relationship for agenda setting hyothesis
- Agenda melding
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Agenda melding
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- Distinctly identifiable audiences value issues & attributes differently
- Each audience melds agenda from various media into a different mix of issues & attributes
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Vargo et. al
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- Measured frequency of tweets on specific issues
- Results: agenda-melding effect
- Vertical media: better predicted agenda-setting of Obama voters
- Horizontal media (Republican) most related to agenda-setting of Obama voters
- Supports agenda-setting process
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An Object and an Image Results
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- Women who were dissatisfied with their bodies compared themselves to larger vases
- Among women with body diss., those who saw the thin vase had lower self-evaluation than those who saw larger vase
- Among women with BD, women were not significantly affected by vase size they saw.
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Co-production process 1
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- The body-image and well-being relationship I
- Emobodiment
- A condition of something, presumably tangible, acquired mentally or physically
- Materiality may be manifested in different forms in the natural world: solid, liquid, gas
- What about digital?
- Embodying: a social production process
- Image: a special category.. Quasi object
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Co-production process 2
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- The body-image and well-being relationship 2
- The participatory culture (Jenkins etc.)
- In contrast to spectatorship
- Ex: characteristic of fandom practices
- Blurring the divide between consumption and production of cultural products
- Cultural practices and community formation
- New kinds of spatial configuration
- Across the vast geographical spread
- Visability via networks: flattening
- Doing time in space: juxtaposition
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Henri Bergson
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- French philosopher
- Image: quasi object
- Duration: temporal movement and entrapping past
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Michel Serres
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- French philosophy
- “parasite”: the third element or mediator in communic.
- The third element or mediator through which communic. must pass.
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Goodings & Tucker background
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- How to understand the body-enactment of certain images- in the technologically enacted spaces?
- “Boyd”- people write themselves into being
- Evolving technologies affect how people “build and sustain digital body”
- Co-production process
