This Pussy Grabs back: Humour, Digital Affects and Women’s Protest
The “affective” turn has enabled many scholars to theorise media representations not only as texts that can be distantly decoded but also as a matter of emotional attachments, intensities of feelings, synesthetic sensations, and embodied experiences. Yet, what has been less often theorized is how th...
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| description | The “affective” turn has enabled many scholars to theorise media representations not only as texts that can be distantly decoded but also as a matter of emotional attachments, intensities of feelings, synesthetic sensations, and embodied experiences. Yet, what has been less often theorized is how this affective meaningmaking is (re)shaped by the dynamic and interactive nature of social networking systems such as Facebook or Twitter. How do images and the affective qualities that “stick” to them, travel and transform through user engagement where “users grab images and technologies by which they are grabbed in return” (Paasonen, Carnal Resonance 178; Senft 2008). We aim to explore this question further through examples of humorous images from the January 2017 Women’s March, considered within the digital contexts of Facebook and Twitter. Social movement scholars argue that emotional engagement can be a powerful and positive motivating factor in getting people involved in political life, and we here suggest that these humorous images can move the reader in new critical directions, encouraging them to challenge systems of inequality and oppression in contemporary society. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e74a389650184f6a84b094012ce058d52022-12-21T22:37:44ZengDe GruyterOpen Cultural Studies2451-34742018-01-011152954010.1515/culture-2017-0050culture-2017-0050This Pussy Grabs back: Humour, Digital Affects and Women’s ProtestBore Inger-Lise Kalviknes0Graefer Anne1Kilby Allaina2School of Media, Birmingham City University, Birmingham B4 7BD, UKSchool of Media, Birmingham City University, Birmingham B4 7BD, UKSchool of International Communications, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo 315100, ChinaThe “affective” turn has enabled many scholars to theorise media representations not only as texts that can be distantly decoded but also as a matter of emotional attachments, intensities of feelings, synesthetic sensations, and embodied experiences. Yet, what has been less often theorized is how this affective meaningmaking is (re)shaped by the dynamic and interactive nature of social networking systems such as Facebook or Twitter. How do images and the affective qualities that “stick” to them, travel and transform through user engagement where “users grab images and technologies by which they are grabbed in return” (Paasonen, Carnal Resonance 178; Senft 2008). We aim to explore this question further through examples of humorous images from the January 2017 Women’s March, considered within the digital contexts of Facebook and Twitter. Social movement scholars argue that emotional engagement can be a powerful and positive motivating factor in getting people involved in political life, and we here suggest that these humorous images can move the reader in new critical directions, encouraging them to challenge systems of inequality and oppression in contemporary society.https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0050online humouraffectactivismfeminism |
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| title | This Pussy Grabs back: Humour, Digital Affects and Women’s Protest |
| title_full | This Pussy Grabs back: Humour, Digital Affects and Women’s Protest |
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| title_full_unstemmed | This Pussy Grabs back: Humour, Digital Affects and Women’s Protest |
| title_short | This Pussy Grabs back: Humour, Digital Affects and Women’s Protest |
| title_sort | this pussy grabs back humour digital affects and women s protest |
| topic | online humour affect activism feminism |
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