Women & Fanfiction: Community and Politics
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What is the primary role of celebrity news according to the content?

  • To provide commercial value (correct)
  • To report on political issues
  • To gather scientific data
  • To share global economic trends

Celebrity news is considered a respected form of journalism by many.

False (B)

What impact does celebrity news have on pop culture?

It is taken more seriously.

Celebrity news has changed what we mean by ___ news.

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Match the factors that influence celebrity news with their implications:

<p>Increased availability of images = Changes public expectations Citizen paparazzi = Gossip becomes news Commercial purposes = Journalism rated lower TikTok vs Instagram = Shift in media consumption</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following factors is mentioned as driving celebrity news?

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How does celebrity news serve as a connection between celebrities and their audience?

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What is one advantage of feminist counterpublics?

<p>Strengthened community rooted in shared experiences (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Feminist counterpublics tend to avoid engaging in public conversations.

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Name one strategy used by counterpublics to promote their narratives.

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Feminist counterpublics emphasize narratives that are __________ to mainstream conversations.

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Match the following terms with their corresponding descriptions:

<p>Deep connection = Strengthened relationships within a community Digital literacy = Ability to navigate and use digital tools effectively Political engagement = Involvement in issues affecting the community and society Counterpublics = Groups that foster alternative narratives to mainstream conversations</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why was TikTok banned in India?

<p>For privacy concerns (B), To control misinformation (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

India was the largest market for TikTok after China before the ban.

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What is a defining characteristic of Web 1.0 in the 1990s?

<p>Static web pages</p> Signup and view all the answers

TikTok users collectively manufacture and dramatize stories like an __________ gossip reel.

<p>investigative</p> Signup and view all the answers

Match the following platforms with their primary characteristics:

<p>TikTok = Tabloid features and collective story creation Instagram = Visual content sharing and influencing Web 1.0 = Static web pages Web 2.0 = User-centric and interactive</p> Signup and view all the answers

What term refers to the concept of surveillance from below?

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What was a significant issue related to TikTok that contributed to its ban?

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Web 2.0 emphasizes a static approach to web design.

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Tabloids provide equal coverage and resources to everyday people as they do to celebrities.

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Which country was the largest market for TikTok?

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What is the ethical implication associated with algorithmic decision-making?

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The Internet Protocol used for most web communication is __________.

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The concept of ____ refers to the idea that successful individuals are more likely to continue being successful.

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Match the following surveillance terms with their descriptions:

<p>Sousveillance = Recording authority from below Surveillance = Monitoring by those in power Social Surveillance = Eavesdropping on peers Exfilming = Extracting information secretly</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following factors are involved in Collaborative Filtering?

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Algorithmic imaginaries shape the way we think about algorithms.

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What does 'Optimal Distinctiveness' refer to in algorithmic contexts?

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Conspiracy theories are often a result of ____ in the algorithmic ecosystem.

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What social media platform is highlighted for its significant role in multiplatform marketing strategies?

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What is the ideal balance mentioned between in the context of streaming platforms like Spotify?

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Memes are considered a subversive response to uneven participatory culture.

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Who first used the term 'memes'?

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Algorithmic _______ involves technology-based manipulation of visibility on digital platforms.

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Match the following concepts with their descriptions:

<p>Algorithmic Gossip = Manipulation of content visibility Participatory Culture = User engagement in content creation Memes = Cultural information that replicates across individuals Remix = Repackaging existing content in new formats</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the term 'repackaging' refer to in the context of memes?

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Participatory culture only allows for passive consumption of content.

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What are the affordances of digital technology symbolic of?

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Memes embody aspects of web 2.0 culture that include _______ sharing and user interactivity.

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Match the following terms with their meanings:

<p>Mimicry = Reproducing someone else's work in various formats Irony = Expressing a meaning opposite to the literal interpretation Ambiguity = The quality of being open to multiple interpretations Subversive = Challenging or undermining traditional power structures</p> Signup and view all the answers

Flashcards

Celebrity Representation

How celebrities are portrayed in media and culture.

Celebrity Regime

The system and structure surrounding celebrity culture.

Celebrity News Function

The role and impact of news about celebrities.

Celebrity News Role

The part celebrity news plays in the lives of celebrities and the public.

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Rise of the image

The increased availability of imagery related to celebrities.

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Gossip as News

How personal information about celebrities is presented as news.

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Internet vs. News Outlets

The shift in how celebrity news is accessed and disseminated.

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TikTok's Ban in India

The Indian government banned TikTok due to concerns about misinformation, harassment, and data collection.

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TikTok's Popularity

TikTok was one of the most used apps in India, second only to China.

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Web1.0

A static website with limited interactive features from the 1990s.

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Web2.0

Websites becoming more user-centric, interactive and dynamic during the 2000s.

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Social Media Surveillance

Monitoring users' posts and activities for security reasons in social media.

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Tabloid Features

Social media platforms like TikTok which encourage content focusing on gossip and dramatic narratives.

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Misinformation

False or misleading information shared widely.

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Internet Protocol (IP)

A set of rules for communicating data over the internet.

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Web3.0

An evolving internet with blockchain technology, potentially more decentralized and reliable.

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Sousveillance

Surveillance from below, often by people monitoring others.

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Algorithmic Imaginaries

Ways of thinking about how algorithms work, what they do, and what they should do.

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Collaborative Filtering

An algorithm that suggests items based on user preferences and similarities.

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Matthew Effect

The idea that those already successful are more likely to be successful.

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Pay for play

Influencing algorithmic choices through incentives.

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Optimal Distinctiveness

Seeking a balance between being unique and feeling part of a group.

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Social Media Risk

The potential negative outcomes associated with social media use.

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Power Dynamics

The ways that power relationships affect social situations.

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FYP (For You Page)

A personalized feed on social media.

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Sensationalism

Using exciting and dramatic details to attract attention.

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Counterpublics

Groups that create alternative spaces for dialogue and expression, often challenging dominant narratives.

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Feminist Counterpublics

Counterpublics specifically focused on feminist perspectives, challenging gender inequality and promoting women's voices.

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Virality as a Strategy

Using social media to spread content widely and quickly, often relying on celebrity endorsement or impactful narratives.

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Community Rooted in Shared Commitment

A strong sense of unity and purpose within a group, often driven by shared beliefs or goals.

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Leveraging Digital Literacy

Using internet skills and knowledge effectively to achieve specific goals, such as advocacy or social change.

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Algorithmic Gossip

The spread of information about celebrities through algorithms, often influencing what we see and how we perceive them.

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Role of Algorithmic Gossip

Algorithms shape how we understand celebrities, potentially leading to skewed perspectives and overexposure to certain narratives.

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Mistimed Mimicry

When a meme's popularity fades quickly due to oversaturation or the original context being lost.

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Remix Meme

A new meme created by altering or combining existing memes, often adapting them to new contexts.

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Memes and Participatory Culture

Memes are a core piece of web 2.0 participation, where users actively create, share, and adapt content.

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Memes: Provoke Anger

Memes are sometimes used to express frustration, anger, or dissent, highlighting societal issues or challenging authority.

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Technology Based Manipulation

Using technology for manipulation, like algorithms and editing tools, plays a role in how memes are created and spread.

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Symbolic of Technology

Memes represent the potential and limitations of digital technology, showcasing both its creative and manipulative aspects.

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Participatory Culture

A culture where users actively create and share content, with a focus on collaboration and participation.

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Affordances of Digital Technology

The capabilities and possibilities offered by digital technology, like accessibility, instant communication, and creative tools.

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Study Notes

Fan Fiction

  • Created by ordinary people
  • Circulates in a gift economy
  • Displaces commercially produced commodities
  • Consumption/production: Reading/writing

Textual Poaching

  • Readers reclaim and reassemble pieces from literature
  • Reading becomes a form of play
  • Texts generate their own meanings

Women & Fanfiction: Rationale

  • Fanfiction is often feminized
  • Drawn to community respect, skill development, creative outlet, and escapism
  • Often a response to feeling misjudged and ignored

Politics of Fanfiction

  • A venue for activism
  • Provides vocabulary for anti-sexist and anti-racist thinking
  • Fans police their stories for any deviation (e.g., Gamergate, wanting to "gatekeep")

Terms to Know

  • FF/fic: fanfiction
  • AU: alternate universe
  • RP/RPG: role-playing/game
  • FC: face claim
  • Head canon: accepted belief
  • Slash: relationship pairing between characters
  • OTP: one true pairing

Recitation 8

  • Fanfiction builds a community with its own norms
  • Reasonable degree of conformity between interpretations of primary texts
  • Stories don't need to be universal

Illness as a Metaphor

  • Mental illness often mirrors a distorted perception of self
  • Negative, personalizing connotations of illness
  • A role in aesthetics and cinematography

Illness & Art

  • Certain health issues (e.g., anxiety, depression) are romanticized
  • Illness as an obstacle or superpower for characters
  • Race and gender are relevant in how illness is portrayed

Illness & Stigma

  • 20th-century stigma around cancer (e.g., lack of understanding, fear of contagion, fatalism)
  • 21st-century stigma around mental health (e.g., invisibility, stereotypes, discrimination)
  • "Mad studies" aim to reclaim the lived experiences

Celebrity as...

  • Representation: symbol, discourse
  • Industry: product, commodity
  • Cultural formation: social function
  • Expectation: participating in a field of expectations

Recitation 9

  • Celebrity as an industry, becoming a product
  • Celebrity as commodity, manufactured, marketed, traded
  • Publicity and the media industries

Celebrity News

  • Commentary on celebrities, but not always respected journalism
  • Different practices than "regular news"
  • Factors include interest in the celebrity, commercial considerations

Factors & Implications of Celebrity News

  • Role of celebrity journalists as information filters who serve celebrity interests
  • Increased image availability, gossip as news

Internet vs. WWW

  • Internet: global network of interconnected networks
  • WWW: service on the internet (using HTTP)
  • Web 1.0 (static, limited interaction), Web 2.0 (user-centric, social media), Web 3.0 (semantic, personalized, interconnected)

Tiktok & Geopolitics

  • India was a major market for Tiktok before its ban
  • Ban reasons: misinformation, harassment, surveillance, data collection

Tiktok vs. Instagram Class Politics

  • Tiktok has had a more inclusive platform for creators from marginalized communities

Ethical Implications

  • Social media's complexity.
  • Ordinary people vs celebrities
  • Power dynamics in tabloids

Algorithmic Imaginaries

  • Ways of thinking about what, how algorithms are concerned with social power
  • Factors in Algorithmic Decision Making (Collaborative Filtering & Matthew Effect)
  • Factors beyond Algorithm (Pay-for-play & Multi-platform marketing strategies)
  • Optimal distincitveness: ideal balance of familiarity and novelty

Algorithmic Gossip

  • Communal/social information on how algorithms function and their visibility
  • Role: knowledge production, response to power dynamics

Memes

  • Created/reproduced within specific social contexts or communities
  • Forms of mimicry or remixing (combining texts)
  • Memes reflect digital affordances in participatory culture

Participatory Culture

  • Mems as shared social phenomena
  • Creation of internet memes
  • Memes as media manipulation

Memes Continued

  • Alt-Right
  • Right-wing political views
  • Aggressive trolling culture

Fandom

  • Pop culture connection, shared commitment, community bonds, digital literacy

Hashtags & Activism Advanatges/Disavanatges

  • Using hashtags to represent collective views on social media
  • Virality as a strategy in counterpublic activism
  • Overrepresentation in feminist activism

Feminist Counterpublic

  • Public conversations that are alternative to mainstream conversation
  • Focuses on feminist narratives, representation, and non-hierarchical organization
  • Examples like the #FreeBritney campaign

Takeaways

  • Pessimism aversion in looking away from tech change
  • Containment, need for managing tools like AI.
  • Symptomatic technology- technology reflecting societal values

Philosophy of Attention

  • Moral attention: Focusing on compassion
  • Decreation emptying of egocentricity

Persuasive Technology

  • Persuasion to spend more time/money on platform
  • Nudges towards behaviors (e.g., push notifications)
  • Filter Bubbles: algorithmic sorting leading to intellectual isolation

Extended Reality

  • Virtual Reality (Full immersion), Augmented Reality (digital on real), Mixed Reality (superposition)
  • A mirror to popular feminism
  • A backlash of patriarchal values
  • A more general, non-detailed idea of feminism
  • Focus on the mainstreaming of feminism; backlashes to these popular images

Culture of Dissemblance

  • Strategies and sexual politics from Black women in Reconstruction eras
  • Self-protective response to abuse
  • Politics of respectability: rely on stereotypes, requires silencing of sexuality

New Extractivism

  • Data mining, digital acts
  • Consequences across labor and climate

Ethical Tech Paths

  • Conscientious objectors, demands to know
  • Use of technology & how it's applied

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