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Retheorizing the Social: The Use of Social Media in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
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Social Text (2017) 35 (3 (132)): 71–94.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Pang Laikwan To understand the political meanings of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement as a spontaneous movement beyond its immediate political achievements and as part of a larger global movement that used occupation as a tactic, this article explores related activities happening in social media...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 99–120.
Published: 01 June 2015
... the feelings of brown subjects. It examines cultural forms produced under the cloak of migrant rights movements to trace the ethical imperative of Brownness enacted by migrant sounds and visualities of loss. The article focuses on the cultural politics of digital art, music, and social media that theorize...
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The Question of Genocide
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 81–102.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., semiotics, social media, computation, racism, weaponry, and other machines of war and capital are here rendered as part of the micrological murmurations of thought, sensibility, and communication, even as they macrologically reform geopolitical terrains both real and imagined. Thought, feeling, knowledge...
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Staying In: Mitski, Ocean Vuong, and Asian American Asociality
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 27–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the contemporary liberal mandate for minoritarian subjects to be visible and legible, as well as the compulsion for those same subjects to be sociable and relatable for the sake of radical collectivity and affiliation. The article examines the music, video, performances, and social media presence of singer...
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Labor/Value/Information
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 95–101.
Published: 01 March 2018
... called media. The drone, it tolls for thee. Ambient media, sur-, sous-, and omniveillance, social-media (now inexorably written with a hyphen whether or not that “reality” is known to all “users”). Where we used to sweat in factories, were violated in ships, plantations, and camps—many of us (and I...
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Affect, Repetition, and Eroticized State Violence in El Salvador's Prisons
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Social Text (2024) 42 (4 (161)): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2024
... and again, as has the media sphere in El Salvador and beyond. Part of what I am trying to account for here is what makes them so compelling and which of their visual and social characteristics engender such repetition. Dada aptly describes their “morbid aesthetic,” a phrasing with a much stronger sexual...
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Social Text
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 231–241.
Published: 01 September 2009
... the years might be described as heuristic rather than categorical: an ongoing, dialogic effort to limn an arena of investigation, rather than the attempt to define once and for all an aspect of a broader social field. Alondra Nelson revisits “The New Right and Media,” an article from Social Text's inaugural...
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Spiritual Attunement: Pentecostal Radio in the Soundscape of a Favela in Rio de Janeiro
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 123–145.
Published: 01 September 2008
... at the baile
funk, no smoking, no drinking, but also no deliberate listening to funk or
pagode music. This regulation of mass media practices through normative
statements by church leaders and social control of cocongregants is simul-
taneously...
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TV Urgente : Urban Exclusion, Civil Society, and the Politics of Television in Venezuela
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 25–53.
Published: 01 June 2009
... many media critiques on the left, overstates
the instrumental power of television’s ideological messages and social role
and attributes to the medium powers that it does not by itself possess in the
absence of popular protest and an organized military...
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Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads
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Social Text (2018) 36 (4 (137)): 57–79.
Published: 01 December 2018
....” 45 On infrapolitics, see Kelley, Race Rebels . See also Freelon et al., “Black Twitter and Other Social Media Communities.” 44 See “Power and Control Wheel,” “Respect Wheel,” “Social Media Ethics Handout,” and “Power and Respect Handout” created by the Digital Alchemists (Bianca Laureano...
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Anticolonial Platform Studies
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Social Text (2025) 43 (2 (163)): 45–74.
Published: 01 June 2025
... have written about how corporate social media algorithms incentivize violent populism and polarization. 8 High-tech digital platforms coordinate global arrangements of labor, health, education, activism, sex, culture wars, identity politics, and life. This spreading corporate governance...
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Style, Tsotsi -style, and Tsotsitaal : The Histories, Aesthetics, and Politics of a South African Figure
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 85–112.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Rosalind C. Morris This essay examines the historical emergence and recent revival of the figure of the tsotsi via the transatlantic migration of aesthetic forms and their dispersal across generic and social spaces. The historical arc of the tsotsi traverses a period that opens at the beginning...
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Ruinous Speculation, Tunnel Environments, and the Sustainable Infrastructures of the Border
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 97–123.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Juan Llamas-Rodriguez Abstract The US‐Mexico borderlands used to host a wide range of natural and social environments, many of which have become irreversibly altered by the structures built to reinforce geopolitical boundaries. To rethink the form and purpose of these borderlands is a political...
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In the Wake of Visual Failure: Twitter, Sandra Bland, and an Anticipatory Nonspectatorship
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2021
.... , and Clark Meredith D. “ Beyond the Hashtag: Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice .” Washington, DC : Center for Media and Social Impact , 2016 . cmsimpact.org/resource/beyond-hashtags-ferguson-blacklivesmatter-online-struggle-offline-justice/ . Fusch...
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Body
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 58–62.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Micki McGee An analysis of media coverage concerning the physiques of three iconic African American figures—Oprah Winfrey and Barack and Michelle Obama—is taken as a point of departure for revisiting Sohnya Sayre's 1987 Social Text article “Glory Mongering: Food and the Agon of Excess...
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Beijing en Abyme: Outside Television in the Olympic Era
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Social Text (2011) 29 (2 (107)): 21–46.
Published: 01 June 2011
... party
organ”6 to the stable viewing field of the living room, this essay pursues
television as a spatial practice that extends across media forms and social
space.
An instructive cue...
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Film and Mass Culture
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 129–133.
Published: 01 September 2009
... in response to changing editorial commitments, which included a turn toward understanding culture as a domain of labor. The launch of the Social Text Web site represents another stage in the journal's ongoing interest in media as a site of leftist critique. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Feminism...
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Violence and Video in Cali, Colombia
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 107–121.
Published: 01 December 2023
... violent, state-sponsored violence and the repression of dissent spiked. The few days a year when no one is murdered in Cali is front-page news. For all the other days, official television, newspapers, and social media splatter ultraviolence onto screens, broadcasting videos of criminals caught...
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We Already Know How Fucked Up the World Is
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 113–116.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., and played out in a political and visible way. When we post information on social media, we often try to expose and to educate, though this exposing does not do much without political organization. The mode of exposing the state, corporations, and other powers that be is still often an effective one...
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No Longer a “Whore,” Not Yet a “Terrorist,” Never a Citizen: Majoritarian Right and the Rabble
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Social Text (2013) 31 (4 (117)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and politicization did she become a recuperable and
capitalized figure of political fantasy, desire, and invasive collectivity.
Shaming the Social Contract
Sriyalatha’s arrest incited the government’s director of information, who
castigated the print media for its “irresponsible coverage” violating...
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