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killing joy as a world making project

The link to Sara Ahmed’s blog. This is such a perfect example of digital, accessible scholarship/ (life)writing; it’s also one of the items in my killjoy survival kit.

#blog #community #lifewriting #digitalscholarship

In this episode, we discuss research by Dr. Jean Twenge that show a striking correlation between smart phone use and depression. This research focuses on Generation Z, or what Twenge calls the "iGen"

This episode problematizes the straightforward co-relation between smart phones and depression/anxiety. It reminded me of Danah Boyd’s article on youth and social media

#youth #mentalhealth #socialmedia #smartphones

Raechel and Melody talk selfie culture through a critical, cultural studies lens. Specifically, they work through Henry Giroux's essay "Selfie Culture in the Age of Corporate and State Surveillance."

This podcast episode talks through selfie-culture, stressing the empowering and counter hegemonic potential of selfies. They touch on some of the problematics as well- I wonder how these reflections might relate to Alice Marwick’s discussion of Instagram reinforcing pre-existing hierarchies.

#selfie #selfieculture

4,768 Likes, 65 Comments - Sofie Hagen (she/they/he) (@sofiehagendk) on Instagram: “HAPPY #WorldObesityDay! WE ARE CHANGING THE NARRATIVE. LISTEN UP. Today is #WorldObesityDay, which…”

I thought this Instagram post was relevant to our discussion of Olivia Banner’s critique of ‘cyberbiocialities’ and Hedva’s discussion of care being enacted on online forums. This is an example of online communities countering the dehumanizing discourse of the medical complex and using social media to celebrate fatness.

#cyberbiocialities #community #care #health

I found this somewhat touching but also extremely disturbing commercial for google. The commercial suggests that we can retain our memories of a lost loved one by sharing our information with google. I thought this relates to ideas around memory, identity, and digital technologies.

#memory #google #identity #subjectivity

Restrictions on nudity limit free expression and discovery, according to media scholars.

This article discusses how Tumblr was an ideal platform for queer communities and relates how this is being hindered by the ban on ‘adult content’

#tumblr #community #queer

With a complicated design, an adult-content problem and only the vaguest idea how to make money, Tumblr was easy prey for trends much bigger than itself.

This article offers a brief history of the Tumblr platform and outlines how the platform has had difficulty in attracting advertisers.

#tumblr #community #advertising

Our lives are lived online, and to ask us to exist homogeneously across all platforms and networks as trackable subjects is a cruel twist of the internet’s potential.

This article outlines the ramifications of banning “adult content” on Tumblr, with reference to how it damages online queer communities.

#tumblr #queer content #queer #community

The look and language of pop this decade took notes from queer users on the microblogging site.

This article discusses queer communities on Tumblr and relates how this visibility has progressively queered pop culture. The article also addresses how queerness has been appropriated and monetized.

#tumblr #queer #community #visibility #appropriation

Again on the topic of the Calm App; it is ironic that the app would advise me to take a break from social media while simultaneously encouraging me to “share my stats” and track my mood. This reminds me of our discussions about affordances, as well as the uses of health data.

#calmapp #tracking #healthtracking #data #affordances

Calm App

I thought it relevant that the narration of my meditation app was advising me to take a break from social media. The session was arguing that posting on social media takes us out of the present, and noted that “we preserve the power and meaning of a moment by keeping it all to ourselves.” (Tamara Levitt; ‘Daily calm, Interruptions’). I wonder how this relates to notions of subjectivity and community/networks; do we lose ourselves by posting on social media, or do we create ourselves through the act of posting?

#calmapp #community #intersubjectivity #subjectivity

Our series on play continues with a very special episode, requested by our own Kaarina Mikalson. Clare Mulcahy is a scholar and a gentleman, but in her free time she likes to play video games, and …

This podcast episode thinks through how video games can be useful in generating community and combating mental health issues. The podcast also touches on misogyny in gaming and the hierarchy of what is considered ‘legitimate’ games.

#gaming #community #misogyny

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