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Social media and self-esteem
(2022)
The relationship between social media and self-esteem is complex, as studies tend to find a mixed pattern of relationships and meta-analyses tend to find small, albeit significant, magnitudes of statistical effects. One explanation is that social media use does not affect self-esteem for the majority of users, while small minorities experience either positive or negative effects, as evidenced by recent research calculating person specific within-person effects. This suggests that the true relationship between social media use and self-esteem is person-specific and based on individual susceptibilities and uses. In recognition of these advancements, we review recent empirical studies considering differential uses and moderating variables in the social media-self-esteem relationship, and conclude by discussing opportunities for future social media effects research.
Wer schreibt? Wer spricht?
(2022)
Human after man
(2022)
Human after man
(2022)
Das humanistische Konzept des Menschen [Man] mit seinem Ideal des weißen westlichen Mannes als universalem Repräsentanten des Menschlichen [Human] steht in der Kritik. Die jamaikanische Autorin und Philosophin Sylvia Wynter, auf deren Formulierung »Towards Human after Man« sich der Titel dieses Buches bezieht, plädiert bereits seit mehreren Jahrzehnten für eine dekoloniale Konzeption des Menschen, die sich von seinen westlich normierten und rassifizierten Konfigurationen entkoppelt. Aktuelle neomaterialistische, posthumanistische oder ökologische Diskurse sehen insbesondere im Klimawandel, dem voranschreitenden Artensterben und einer immer engeren Verschmelzung von Lebendigem und Technischem sowie den damit verbundenen kapitalistischen Ausbeutungsmechanismen den zwingenden Anlass für ein Neudenken des Menschlichen. Das Buch setzt diese verschiedenen Ansätze in Bezug zueinander und bringt sie in Dialog mit künstlerischen Positionen, die in radikaler und teils höchst spekulativer Art und Weise alternative Formen des Humanum entwerfen. Human after Man ist Ergebnis des siebten Jahresprogramms des cx centrum für interdisziplinäre studien an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München.
Nationality traditionally is one of imagology’s key terms. In this article, I propose an intersectional understanding of this category, conceiving nationality as an interdependent dynamic. I thus conclude it to be always internally constructed by notions of gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, age, ability, and other identity categories. This complex and multi-layered construct, I argue, is formed narratively. To exemplify this, I analyse practices of stereotyping in Honoré de Balzac’s Illusions perdues (1843) and Henry James’s The American (1877) which construct the so-called Parisienne as a synecdoche for nineteenth-century France.
The article is dedicated to the problem of social bonds that is negotiated in Troilus and Cressida. Troilus and Ulysses embody an old, traditional order of the world that is out of joint, while Cressida's behaviour and her way of interacting indicate a different and new regime of social regulation that is about to take over. With its complex superposition of (touches of) love and war, Troilus and Cressida brings together rituals of touch, anarchic speech acts, and a gendered perspective on the world that associates touch and temporality with 'frail' femininity and temptation. With unrivalled intensity, the play puts to the spectator that the basic condition of touch, i.e. exposing oneself to another, entails an incalculable risk. Hector tragically falls for the vulnerability inherent in touch and the audience suffers with him because they share this existential precondition on which modern society is 'founded.' The gloomy, inescapable atmosphere of societal crisis that Troilus and Cressida creates emphasises the fact that the fragility of touch is not to be overcome. The fractions - no matter whether Greek, Trojan, or those of loving couples - cannot simply be reunited to form a new, authentic entity. Generating at least some form of social cohesion therefore remains a challenge.