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Hands labouring for safety: Mediated intimacy in influencer communities on Instagram
The article explores how digital images of hands are used as a symbolic representation of intimacy and intimate emotions in influencer communication on Instagram. Based on digital ethnography with female influencers in the Czech Republic, the analysis focuses on three categories of communicative practices, where hands function as a visual representation of intimacy—creating community, a sense of vulnerability, and the notion of rawness and openness. The analysis points to the gendered nature of influencer co…
Living hated: Everyday experiences of hate speech across online and offline contexts
The article builds on current research into the effects and harms of hate speech in the lives of its victims. It introduces the anthropological concept of everyday violence to focus on hate speech as an everyday experience as opposed to a sequence of separate hate speech acts. Methodologically, the study is based on a qualitative approach and analyses data collected via semi-structured interviews (N=33) with people who have experienced hate speech in four EU member states (Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic an…
„Sdílím s vámi svoji cestu“: Influencerství a wellness spiritualita v online komunitách
Tzv. spirituální infl uenceři se v českém prostředí zviditelnili během pandemie COVID-19, jejich popularita nadále roste a vyvolává kontroverze ve veřejné debatě. Fenomén spirituálního influencerství je možné propojit s institucí „gurus“ a zároveň je nutné ho vnímat v kontextu digitálního prostoru a sociálních sítí, se kterým je bytostně propojený. Článek analyzuje fenomén spirituálního infl uencerství právě v těchto souvislostech a na příkladech z česk…
Topics: Internet, Media, Religion and religiosity
HandsOn Screen: Influencers and Digital Intimacy on Instagram
Topics: Internet, Social Capital, Lifestyle
Politicisation of the Domestic: Populist Narratives About Covid‐19 Among Influencers
The article analyses the proliferation of narratives about Covid‐19 as an orchestrated political event among female lifestyleinfluencers on Czech Instagram. As the Covid‐19 pandemic turned even the most basic everyday activities into politicallyloaded questions, the boundaries between lifestyle, domestic, and political content posted by influencers became increas‐ingly blurred. The article explores this process of “politicisation of the domestic” with a focus on (a) the gendered characterof influence…
Topics: Gender, Internet, Politics and Political Attitudes
‘I’m Always Telling You My Honest Opinion’: Influencers and Gendered Authenticity Strategies on Instagram
Topics: Gender, Internet, Culture, Media
Cultures of Authenticity
Authenticity has become a buzzword for our times. Much of the travel industry is built around the provision of ‘authentic’ experiences, global brands fight to be seen as ‘authentic’ and social media platforms are awash with arguments about the authenticity of this post or that vlogger. But what do we mean by authenticity? And why have these debates grown so dramatically in the last two decades?This collection explores the complex and at times controversial idea of authenticity. Addressing the concept f…
Topics: Gender, Culture, Media
Women and employment: advances and challenges in policies for women's labour-force participation in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of the post-pandemic recovery
The purpose of this document is to provide inputs and contribute to reflection for decision-making in the field of equality in employment between men and women. It aims to be a document of proposals and measures of public policies that can be taken into consideration, both in the 27 countries of the European Union (EU27) and in their relationship with their partners in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), to increase women's participation into the labour market in a stable and equitable manner.…
Topics: Economy, Gender
“We Are in Control”: Instagram Influencers and the Proliferation of Conspiracy Narratives in Digital Spaces
Female spiritual influencers on Instagram engage with conspiracy content and appeal to the issue of control over female bodies to bridge the gap between mainstream and fringe online spaces. I use the concept of “third space” to analyse the dynamics of Instagram communities around spiritual influencers and highlight how these communities operate as spaces for political discussion while simultaneously appearing apolitical from the outside. Analysing data from participant observation and interviews with six f…
Topics: Gender, Media, Public health, Lifestyle
Sisterhood in 5D: Conspirituality and Instagram Aesthetics
The article explores the proliferation of conspiracies in female dominated spaces on Instagram, specifically among spiritual influencers who base their authority and influence on a combination of wellness culture practices and conspirituality narratives. It uses the example of a prominent Czech spiritual influencer Helena Houdová to illustrate the blending of spiritual, aspirational and conspiracy content among Instagram influencers and it argues that the specific aesthetics of Instagram conspiracies needs t…
Topics: Gender, Media, Lifestyle
Prodlužování pracovního života v České republice: Situace zaměstnanců a zaměstnankyň
Topics: Gender, Social Policy, Age and Aging
Extension of Working Lives in the Czech Republic: Employee Situation
Topics: Gender, Social Policy, Age and Aging
"Do Your Research": COVID-19, post-socialist experience and the narrative of information independence among Czech Instagram influencers
The COVID-19 pandemics highlighted the role of social media influencers as political communicators and drew attention to the question of accountability of influencers and their overall role in the media ecosystem. The aim of the paper is to analyze the role of lifestyle Instagram influencers in shaping the public narrative about COVID-19 as an orchestrated political event aimed at curbing civic freedom in the Czech Republic with focus on two key elements: 1) the politicization of the domestic (space) on Instag…
Topics: Gender
Authenticity and Digital Intimacy Between Influencers and Researchers
Topics: Research Methodology
Imagining the West: (Im)mobility, Social Media and Indigenous Youth in Chiapas
Topics: Globalization, Identity, Media, City and Village, Social Inequalities
The Invisible City: Three Stories About Urban Marginality from San Cristóbal de Las Casas
Topics: Globalization, Identity, City and Village
Mobilita jako akt radikálního kosmopolitismu: poznámky k výzkumu migrantských protestních hnutí
Topics: Globalization, Migration and Mobility
