Essays about: "Self-surveillance"
Found 5 essays containing the word Self-surveillance.
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1. Between Discursive Power, Visibility and Resistance: A Critical Study of Employee Ambassadorship on Social Media
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikationAbstract : Social media offers employees new opportunities to contribute as communicators and ambassadors to the strategic communication of organizations. However, this study problematizes the prevailing normative and managerial-dominated understanding of self-initiated employee ambassadorship on social media, which neglects power structures in which employees’ communication on social media is embedded. READ MORE
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2. The Haunting of Hill House: The Heterosexual Horror of the Home
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : The female gothic as a genre, with its emergence in the 19th century, has a history of critiquing women’s place in the domestic sphere by showcasing the horrors of the home. When The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson was first published in 1959, it did so with both this historical genre background, as well as with a resurgence of traditional gender roles as an ideal. READ MORE
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3. Theater practice and its association with body appreciation and self-surveillance among women.
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologiAbstract : Recently, researchers have gained an increased interest in examining activities that promote a more positive body image among women. Some activities such as yoga and dance have proven to be positively associated with body appreciation, both directly and through reduced self-surveillance. READ MORE
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4. Bodies out/in Place? Unmapping Trans People’s Experience in Outdoor Activities
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaperAbstract : Scrutiny over trans people's bodies in urban contexts is continuous. This thesis develops the idea that the outdoors offers a less-gendered space for trans people, enabling and empowering them to escape self-surveillance processes and to feel freer in their gender expression/identity. READ MORE
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5. Disciplining the Japanese Body: Gender, Power and Skin Color in Japan
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : The purpose of this thesis was to explore gender norms, beauty ideals and social practices and the way these become ‘visible’ on the Japanese female body as (re)producing the ideal Japanese femininity and skin color in particular. In order to achieve that, I investigate and identify these norms, the mechanisms that implement them on the body and the attitudes and expression of resistance against them. READ MORE
