Mariam Betlemidze
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariam Betlemidze |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariam |
| FAMILY NAME | Betlemidze |
| SIGNATURE | BETLEMIDZE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, San Bernardino |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8716-7740 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jalaiah Effect: A Story of a Stolen Dance on TikTok and Trans-Platformization of Ignorance
This article explores how ignorance becomes a cultural affordance of trans-platformization, focusing on the Renegade dance's evolution into a viral sensation that fueled TikTok's rise and launched new teenage influencers. Employing new materialist feminist theory, Actor-Network Theory, and Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis, this article operationalizes the concept of trans-platformization. It examines race-technology entanglements as the…
Traversing Anthropocentric Horizons With Her: Trans-Corporeal Surrogacy, Enchantment, and Disenchantment in Human-Machine Assemblage
This article aims to shed light on the intricacies that overturn McLuhan's vision of technologies as extensions or prosthetics of human capabilities when applied to human-machine communication (HMC). Human and nonhuman entities co-evolve on an equal agential footing, immersed in mediatized assemblages. Building on the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari, Bennett, and others, it theorizes HMC as a cycle of sonic enchantment, culminating in trans-corp…
Mobile layers of 2015 Copenhagen shooting: Sounds, witnesses, and tweets @Femeninna
The article examines the case of the terrorist attack on a free speech event hosted at Krudttønden café in Copenhagen on 14 February 2015, exactly at the time when Femen’s leading activist Inna Shevchenko was delivering her speech on the illusion of free speech in Europe. I focus on the intersections of sound, feminine vulnerability, mediatized support, and transformations of Femen activism network within layered and interlaced networks. Guided b…
Suicidal activism in Siberia: Femina and homo sacers of Kara 1889
Focusing on the historical forms activism in the nineteenth-century Russia, this article provides a critical genealogy of vernacular discourses surrounding anti-tsarist female and male activists’ hunger strikes and a group suicide of 1889 in Siberian prison camp, Kara. Building on the works of Foucault and Agamben, the article employs a framework of femina and homo sacers to analyze the suicidal activism in Kara 1889. Particular attention is paid…
Neoliberalism and against-the-grain activism in the age of new media
Mediatized Controversies of Feminist Protest: Femen and Bodies as Affective Events
Despite the low number of FEMEN protesters per event, their images still manage to saturate the Internet through its myriad platforms and networks. These young, attractive female activists crowned
Mediatized Controversies of Feminist Protest: Femen and Bodies as Affective Events
Despite the low number of FEMEN protesters per event, their images still manage to saturate the Internet through its myriad platforms and networks. These young, attractive female activists crowned
Jalaiah Effect: A Story of a Stolen Dance on TikTok and Trans-Platformization of Ignorance
This article explores how ignorance becomes a cultural affordance of trans-platformization, focusing on the Renegade dance's evolution into a viral sensation that fueled TikTok's rise and launched new teenage influencers. Employing new materialist feminist theory, Actor-Network Theory, and Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis, this article operationalizes the concept of trans-platformization. It examines race-technology entanglements as the…
Mediatized Controversies of Feminist Protest: Femen and Bodies as Affective Events
Despite the low number of FEMEN protesters per event, their images still manage to saturate the Internet through its myriad platforms and networks. These young, attractive female activists crowned
Suicidal activism in Siberia: Femina and homo sacers of Kara 1889
Focusing on the historical forms activism in the nineteenth-century Russia, this article provides a critical genealogy of vernacular discourses surrounding anti-tsarist female and male activists’ hunger strikes and a group suicide of 1889 in Siberian prison camp, Kara. Building on the works of Foucault and Agamben, the article employs a framework of femina and homo sacers to analyze the suicidal activism in Kara 1889. Particular attention is paid…
Neoliberalism and against-the-grain activism in the age of new media
Mobile layers of 2015 Copenhagen shooting: Sounds, witnesses, and tweets @Femeninna
The article examines the case of the terrorist attack on a free speech event hosted at Krudttønden café in Copenhagen on 14 February 2015, exactly at the time when Femen’s leading activist Inna Shevchenko was delivering her speech on the illusion of free speech in Europe. I focus on the intersections of sound, feminine vulnerability, mediatized support, and transformations of Femen activism network within layered and interlaced networks. Guided b…
Traversing Anthropocentric Horizons With Her: Trans-Corporeal Surrogacy, Enchantment, and Disenchantment in Human-Machine Assemblage
This article aims to shed light on the intricacies that overturn McLuhan's vision of technologies as extensions or prosthetics of human capabilities when applied to human-machine communication (HMC). Human and nonhuman entities co-evolve on an equal agential footing, immersed in mediatized assemblages. Building on the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari, Bennett, and others, it theorizes HMC as a cycle of sonic enchantment, culminating in trans-corp…
Jalaiah Effect: A Story of a Stolen Dance on TikTok and Trans-Platformization of Ignorance
This article explores how ignorance becomes a cultural affordance of trans-platformization, focusing on the Renegade dance's evolution into a viral sensation that fueled TikTok's rise and launched new teenage influencers. Employing new materialist feminist theory, Actor-Network Theory, and Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis, this article operationalizes the concept of trans-platformization. It examines race-technology entanglements as the…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)