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Thé undeniable potential social media has to command and mobilise vast amounts of attention and energy on a global level.
Why should women have to resort to shouting into the digital abyss to get their needs and their rights upheld?
social media extends old forms of gender based surveillance and enables new ones There is no form of surveillance that is innocent. Saudi men grant or deny the women the right to travel
— Aug 25, 2022 05:43AM
Why should women have to resort to shouting into the digital abyss to get their needs and their rights upheld?
social media extends old forms of gender based surveillance and enables new ones There is no form of surveillance that is innocent. Saudi men grant or deny the women the right to travel
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We watch and are watched, learning to observe ourselves and others in ever more forensic ways as ‘seeing’ each other through technology becomes normal rather than novel. Online, we are all voyeurs for whom the twitching curtain or the peephole is now our screens.
Thé spectre of judgement and disgrace is constant
— Aug 25, 2022 05:45AM
Thé spectre of judgement and disgrace is constant
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*** can be used for good or just as easily for the bad
We watch and are watched
Learning to observed ourselves and others in even more forensic ways
Online we are all voyeurs for whom the twitching curtain or the peephole is now our screens and appealing space of likes community and followers
The spectre of judgement and disgrace — trap is only a click away
— Jul 13, 2022 01:54PM
We watch and are watched
Learning to observed ourselves and others in even more forensic ways
Online we are all voyeurs for whom the twitching curtain or the peephole is now our screens and appealing space of likes community and followers
The spectre of judgement and disgrace — trap is only a click away
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How social media extends old forms of gender beaded surveillance and enables new ones
Tracking individuals on ones phone - app
Tabacs escape from Saudi
The undeniable potential social media has to command and mobilise vast amounts of attention and energy on a global level
— Jul 13, 2022 01:52PM
Tracking individuals on ones phone - app
Tabacs escape from Saudi
The undeniable potential social media has to command and mobilise vast amounts of attention and energy on a global level
Niamh Leddy
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These technologies are contributing to rising levels of depression, anxiety and poor body image in young women —41
— Jul 13, 2022 01:50PM
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Image obsessed culture
Interpersonal surveillance
Mask of digital perfection
Western culture “you can’t be what you cant see ‘
— Jul 13, 2022 01:49PM
Interpersonal surveillance
Mask of digital perfection
Western culture “you can’t be what you cant see ‘
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Complicity
Berger
‘You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “vanity”
Female complicity according to sidebar —- a woman does not simply wear clothes or walk down a street or post a selfie, she flaunts, pours , reveals, shoes off
— Jul 13, 2022 01:48PM
Berger
‘You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “vanity”
Female complicity according to sidebar —- a woman does not simply wear clothes or walk down a street or post a selfie, she flaunts, pours , reveals, shoes off
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Mark Zuckerberg
Early foray - ‘face mash’
‘Gallery or beauties’ 36 portraits of women - ‘Munich - nymphenburg palace
— Jul 13, 2022 01:46PM
Early foray - ‘face mash’
‘Gallery or beauties’ 36 portraits of women - ‘Munich - nymphenburg palace
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1887 Cambridge untiversitys (predominately male )
Protect against serious threat to the integrity of the British educational system —- a controversial proposals that women should be award full degreees —‘varsity for men’ three flour and egggs
Lady cyclist
Newnham college - one of 2 female colleges
— Jul 13, 2022 01:45PM
Protect against serious threat to the integrity of the British educational system —- a controversial proposals that women should be award full degreees —‘varsity for men’ three flour and egggs
Lady cyclist
Newnham college - one of 2 female colleges
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Images of women- particularly of the light skinned youthful and conventionally attractive — huge commercial power
Dissonance and impact on self esteem
The machinations of the V trap — radical potential of this development is often met with a desire to control representation rather than let it run free
— Jul 13, 2022 01:43PM
Dissonance and impact on self esteem
The machinations of the V trap — radical potential of this development is often met with a desire to control representation rather than let it run free
