Natalie Jester
Biographic Data
| ID | 308770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie Jester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Jester |
| SIGNATURE | JESTER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gloucestershire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7995-3028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Doing world politics and social media: Digital practice and open education in international relations
This paper sets out the need for, and potential offered by, introducing social media into teaching global challenges. We argue that teaching on global challenges should involve teaching with, through, and about social media as a place of politics. This paper suggests that using social media in our teaching can help to equip students with critical digital literacies as a set of skills for engaging, understanding, and analysing digital materials. W…
Great Britain? Constructing great power status through online news reporting of foreign conflict
This article argues that online news coverage of foreign conflict depicts Britain as holding special responsibilities on the world stage, reproducing its status as a ‘great power.’ Taking a discourse–theoretic approach – focusing on meaning making – the article examines British coverage of Libyan government violence in response to pro-democracy protests during the 2011 civil war. The Libyan people are constructed as aspiring democrats ultimately …
Politics of play: Wargaming with the US military
Encountering Virtual Veterans: AI chatbots, martial ontologies, and memories of war
With new technologies presenting ever more ways to encounter war, this article asks about one in particular: representations of veterans powered by artificial intelligence. Specifically, I focus on the Virtual Veterans chatbot – named Charlie – produced by Anzac Square, the state war memorial of Queensland, Australia. Shared on the social media platform X, this feature has garnered significant public attention. I argue that AI representations of …
Support the troops: Military obligation, gender, and the making of political community
Review of: Support the troops: military obligation, gender, and the making of political community. Katharine M. Millar. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2022. 304 pp. £63; ISBN 9780197642337. Available as an e-book
Arms, aviation, and apologies: Mapping the Boeing social media response to the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash
Boeing is famous for aviation but also produces arms, making $29.2 billion from the latter in 2018. The role of the arms trade in facilitating death can be considered a ‘public secret’ - known, but socially unacknowledged. This allows Boeing to represent its role as one of ‘neutral’ technological advancement, obscuring violence engendered by certain products. How can we know the public secret? We argue that public apology and scandal are boundary…
Gender Washing War: Arms Manufacturers and the Hijacking of #InternationalWomensDay
If asked what 'arms manufacturer' first brings to mind, few people would likely answer 'women's rights.' And yet, each International Women's Day (IWD), leading global arms manufacturers present themselves as working to help bring about gender equality. 'Gender washing' refers to corporate social responsibility communications aimed at presenting a corporation as empowering to women and girls, even while their own products, supply chains, or employ…
Making martial politics palatable: Constructing neoliberal feminist subjects in arms manufacturers’ social media feeds
In this article, I examine social media output from three of the largest arms manufacturers (by profit): Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, all based in the United States. I ask: how, if at all, are women represented? What do these representations do? To answer these questions, I examine all of the tweets sent by these manufacturers over a three-month period and find that the Twitter content (1) normalizes women within the company c…
Accessible, Transparent, Progressive: Conceptualising the Militarisation of Digital Space Through the Social Media Presence of Arms Manufacturers
Arms sales cause serious harm and the public is – on some level – aware of this, yet their sale continues apace. Militarisation is the engendering of support for war, broadly understood, and this includes the manufacture/sale of weapons. This article examines the Twitter feeds of three large US arms manufacturers: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman (as part of a larger project where approximately 900 tweets were examined). It finds th…
Twitter as Higher-Education Community of Practice: A Political Science Perspective
A community of practice is where a group works together toward a shared goal. This article argues that Twitter hosts a community of practice within political science and international relations. This occurs in three key ways: (1) offering an area to share feelings about our role as educators, (2) connecting to a wider network of educators in our discipline (and other disciplines), and (3) providing a space to proffer practical support. This has b…
Popular culture as pedagogy in the political theory classroom: Reflections from higher education
Political theory, with its abstract reasoning and unfamiliar vocabulary, is a subject that students are often apprehensive about. Whilst popular culture has been employed extensively in the teaching of other areas of political science, such as international relations, I seek to draw attention to its comparative under-use in political theory and argue that it is a highly effective teaching tool for this subject. I use the autoethnographic method t…
Army recruitment video advertisements in the US and UK since 2002: Challenging ideals of hegemonic military masculinity
This article examines video recruitment advertising for the US and UK armies between 2002 – post 9/11 – and 2018 in order to unpack constructions of gender in a context of what has been called a military recruitment crisis. The findings suggest that the recruitment crisis has made possible some interesting representations of gender in the armies of the respective states. The US constructs its army in less traditionally masculine terms: women and …
Quality peace: Peacebuilding, victory, and world order
Book review of Quality peace: peacebuilding, victory, and world order
Army recruitment video advertisements in the US and UK since 2002: Challenging ideals of hegemonic military masculinity
This article examines video recruitment advertising for the US and UK armies between 2002 – post 9/11 – and 2018 in order to unpack constructions of gender in a context of what has been called a military recruitment crisis. The findings suggest that the recruitment crisis has made possible some interesting representations of gender in the armies of the respective states. The US constructs its army in less traditionally masculine terms: women and …
Accessible, Transparent, Progressive: Conceptualising the Militarisation of Digital Space Through the Social Media Presence of Arms Manufacturers
Arms sales cause serious harm and the public is – on some level – aware of this, yet their sale continues apace. Militarisation is the engendering of support for war, broadly understood, and this includes the manufacture/sale of weapons. This article examines the Twitter feeds of three large US arms manufacturers: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman (as part of a larger project where approximately 900 tweets were examined). It finds th…
Making martial politics palatable: Constructing neoliberal feminist subjects in arms manufacturers’ social media feeds
In this article, I examine social media output from three of the largest arms manufacturers (by profit): Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, all based in the United States. I ask: how, if at all, are women represented? What do these representations do? To answer these questions, I examine all of the tweets sent by these manufacturers over a three-month period and find that the Twitter content (1) normalizes women within the company c…
Quality peace: Peacebuilding, victory, and world order
Book review of Quality peace: peacebuilding, victory, and world order
Support the troops: Military obligation, gender, and the making of political community
Review of: Support the troops: military obligation, gender, and the making of political community. Katharine M. Millar. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2022. 304 pp. £63; ISBN 9780197642337. Available as an e-book
Quality peace: Peacebuilding, victory, and world order
Book review of Quality peace: peacebuilding, victory, and world order
Army recruitment video advertisements in the US and UK since 2002: Challenging ideals of hegemonic military masculinity
This article examines video recruitment advertising for the US and UK armies between 2002 – post 9/11 – and 2018 in order to unpack constructions of gender in a context of what has been called a military recruitment crisis. The findings suggest that the recruitment crisis has made possible some interesting representations of gender in the armies of the respective states. The US constructs its army in less traditionally masculine terms: women and …
Popular culture as pedagogy in the political theory classroom: Reflections from higher education
Political theory, with its abstract reasoning and unfamiliar vocabulary, is a subject that students are often apprehensive about. Whilst popular culture has been employed extensively in the teaching of other areas of political science, such as international relations, I seek to draw attention to its comparative under-use in political theory and argue that it is a highly effective teaching tool for this subject. I use the autoethnographic method t…
Twitter as Higher-Education Community of Practice: A Political Science Perspective
A community of practice is where a group works together toward a shared goal. This article argues that Twitter hosts a community of practice within political science and international relations. This occurs in three key ways: (1) offering an area to share feelings about our role as educators, (2) connecting to a wider network of educators in our discipline (and other disciplines), and (3) providing a space to proffer practical support. This has b…
Making martial politics palatable: Constructing neoliberal feminist subjects in arms manufacturers’ social media feeds
In this article, I examine social media output from three of the largest arms manufacturers (by profit): Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, all based in the United States. I ask: how, if at all, are women represented? What do these representations do? To answer these questions, I examine all of the tweets sent by these manufacturers over a three-month period and find that the Twitter content (1) normalizes women within the company c…
Accessible, Transparent, Progressive: Conceptualising the Militarisation of Digital Space Through the Social Media Presence of Arms Manufacturers
Arms sales cause serious harm and the public is – on some level – aware of this, yet their sale continues apace. Militarisation is the engendering of support for war, broadly understood, and this includes the manufacture/sale of weapons. This article examines the Twitter feeds of three large US arms manufacturers: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman (as part of a larger project where approximately 900 tweets were examined). It finds th…
Support the troops: Military obligation, gender, and the making of political community
Review of: Support the troops: military obligation, gender, and the making of political community. Katharine M. Millar. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2022. 304 pp. £63; ISBN 9780197642337. Available as an e-book
Arms, aviation, and apologies: Mapping the Boeing social media response to the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash
Boeing is famous for aviation but also produces arms, making $29.2 billion from the latter in 2018. The role of the arms trade in facilitating death can be considered a ‘public secret’ - known, but socially unacknowledged. This allows Boeing to represent its role as one of ‘neutral’ technological advancement, obscuring violence engendered by certain products. How can we know the public secret? We argue that public apology and scandal are boundary…
Gender Washing War: Arms Manufacturers and the Hijacking of #InternationalWomensDay
If asked what 'arms manufacturer' first brings to mind, few people would likely answer 'women's rights.' And yet, each International Women's Day (IWD), leading global arms manufacturers present themselves as working to help bring about gender equality. 'Gender washing' refers to corporate social responsibility communications aimed at presenting a corporation as empowering to women and girls, even while their own products, supply chains, or employ…
Great Britain? Constructing great power status through online news reporting of foreign conflict
This article argues that online news coverage of foreign conflict depicts Britain as holding special responsibilities on the world stage, reproducing its status as a ‘great power.’ Taking a discourse–theoretic approach – focusing on meaning making – the article examines British coverage of Libyan government violence in response to pro-democracy protests during the 2011 civil war. The Libyan people are constructed as aspiring democrats ultimately …
Politics of play: Wargaming with the US military
Encountering Virtual Veterans: AI chatbots, martial ontologies, and memories of war
With new technologies presenting ever more ways to encounter war, this article asks about one in particular: representations of veterans powered by artificial intelligence. Specifically, I focus on the Virtual Veterans chatbot – named Charlie – produced by Anzac Square, the state war memorial of Queensland, Australia. Shared on the social media platform X, this feature has garnered significant public attention. I argue that AI representations of …
Doing world politics and social media: Digital practice and open education in international relations
This paper sets out the need for, and potential offered by, introducing social media into teaching global challenges. We argue that teaching on global challenges should involve teaching with, through, and about social media as a place of politics. This paper suggests that using social media in our teaching can help to equip students with critical digital literacies as a set of skills for engaging, understanding, and analysing digital materials. W…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works)