What Do You Weigh? Popular Feminism and Body Positivity as Mediated Disembodiment
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| ID | 22008752 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Hannah Taylor (0000-0003-3957-5306, Clemson University), Colten Meisner (0000-0001-7398-2269, Cornell University) |
| Ano | 2020 |
| Data de publicação | 2020-10-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 2162-3317 • E-ISSN: 2162-3317 |
| Editora | University of Illinois Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11345 |
| OpenAlex | W3092318985 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 1 |
This study analyzes the Instagram page, @i_weigh, and its relation to body positivity discourses. Drawing on a visual discourse analysis of 300 Instagram posts from the @i_weigh account, this study suggests that body positivity movements may be increasingly disembodied in a self-representational era hallmarked by popular feminism. On 16 March 2018, actress and activist Jameela Jamil posted a photo to Instagram, obscuring her body with textual identifiers like “great friends” and “I laugh every day.” This post marked the launch of the Instagram account @i_weigh. This page, founded and maintained by Jamil, posts submissions from Instagram users answering the call to “weigh” themselves beyond the corporeal. This movement, now millions in reach, signals a departure from the conventions of body positivity. Rather than discovering empowerment through the body, @i_weigh encourages its participants to publicly privilege external relationships, social identities, and economic opportunities in an effort to look past the body. @i_weigh discursively constructs a mediated disembodiment, characterized by its liminal visual representation and categorization of the self through narratives of resilience and strength, claiming marginalized identities, and extra-self connection. The interaction of liminality and mediated disembodiment is reflective of self-representation in an age of popular feminism, placing the responsibility back on women for their own empowerment and production of selfhood while ignoring the socio-cultural frameworks that create a need for empowerment in the first place
Aesthetics · Art · Categorization · Empowerment · Epistemology · Feminism · Liminality · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,25 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |