Women's Voices in the BlueWave Resistance on Twitter
Cruel Optimism
Seiten
2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3336-1 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3336-1 (ISBN)
With a focus on Twitter's BlueWave Resistance community of women, Cynthia A. Davidson argues, using rhetorical and political analysis, that political tweeting is an optimistic act--but frames this through engaging Lauren Berlant's claim in Cruel Optimism that what we most desire is also an impediment to our thriving.
In this book, Cynthia A. Davidson argues that tweeting, especially political tweeting among Democratic women, is an inherently optimistic act. Davidson’s analysis draws on Lauren Berlant’s assertion in Cruel Optimism (2011) that what we most desire is also an impediment to our thriving, whether or not the subject of specific conversations is negative. Narratives created by members of the Democratic BlueWave Resistance either support the primary purpose of the group--to uphold support of liberal democratic conventions and the issues, policies, and personalities related to them--or take place more or less comfortably within the zone of the community that supports these things. Using specific examples, empirical data, and analysis framed by Berlant’s theories as well as primary and secondary sources from current journalism and scholarship, Davidson explores Twitter as a problematic object of desire and attachment, examines the rhetorical underpinnings of its discourse, and shows how women of this group use storytelling via Twitter as a way to make connections, be heard, and stay afloat in a status quo that perpetuates un-ease and precarious existence. Scholars of media studies, gender studies, and political science will find this book of particular interest.
In this book, Cynthia A. Davidson argues that tweeting, especially political tweeting among Democratic women, is an inherently optimistic act. Davidson’s analysis draws on Lauren Berlant’s assertion in Cruel Optimism (2011) that what we most desire is also an impediment to our thriving, whether or not the subject of specific conversations is negative. Narratives created by members of the Democratic BlueWave Resistance either support the primary purpose of the group--to uphold support of liberal democratic conventions and the issues, policies, and personalities related to them--or take place more or less comfortably within the zone of the community that supports these things. Using specific examples, empirical data, and analysis framed by Berlant’s theories as well as primary and secondary sources from current journalism and scholarship, Davidson explores Twitter as a problematic object of desire and attachment, examines the rhetorical underpinnings of its discourse, and shows how women of this group use storytelling via Twitter as a way to make connections, be heard, and stay afloat in a status quo that perpetuates un-ease and precarious existence. Scholars of media studies, gender studies, and political science will find this book of particular interest.
Cynthia A. Davidson is senior lecturer and emerging technologies coordinator in The Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Reading Berlant as a Lens for Twitter Culture, An Introduction
Chapter 2: Attraction, Resistance, and Reconstituted Trauma on Twitter
Chapter 3: Affective Exhaustion, Online “Gestures,” and the Appeal of the Impasse
Chapter 4: The Noise and the Narratives
Chapter 5: Women, Noise, and Narrative in the BlueWave Resistance
Chapter 6: Overview and Specific Stories of Women-Identified Accounts in the BlueWave
Chapter 7: Conclusion: If/Tweet
References
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 472 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-3336-3 / 1793633363 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-3336-1 / 9781793633361 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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