Morgane Desoutter

TikTok tradwives: femininity, reproduction, and social media In recent years, social media platforms have seen a growing promotion of the Tradwife’s lifestyle, where cis women embrace patriarchal gender norms and identities such as the stay-at-home mother an...

Incredibly impressed by Kate Scott and Lindsay Day, two brilliant PhD students at USYD who have published this excellent paper on TikTok tradwives and online anti-feminist movements www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Such a pleasure to work with and learn from such smart humans!

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War, social media and gender: an analysis of the use of TikTok by Ukrainian soldiers This article examines the intersection of war and gender through a visual analysis of TikTok videos depicting Ukrainian soldiers. Framed as the first TikTok war, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia h...

📢 Just published in CMS!

I dive into how Ukrainian Soldiers use #TikTok to share their #war experiences, shaping both public support and #gender norms. Is this a shift away from militarized masculinity, or just a new version of it?🤔

Read more here! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📌Indigenous and Decolonial perspectives on the popular;
📌Feminist and Queer perspectives on the popular;
📌Social media, ‘Tech-Bros’, and cyberviolence;
📌Political activism, resistance and peace in popculture;
📌Imaginaries of climate, disaster and recovery.

We welcome paper, panel, and roundtable proposals on any aspect of the popular culture and world politics continuum a.o.:

📌Popculture, democracy and populism;
📌Diplomacy, war and conflict in popculture;
📌Images of borders, migration and displacement;

One month left to submit your abstract to the Popular Culture & World Politics standing section of the #EISAPEC25 in Bologna in Bologna 25-29 August!

Submission portal: buff.ly/3QtluFf

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

“One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male.”

Possible themes include (a.o.)
War, social media and popular culture;
Decolonial, Feminist and Queer perspectives on the popular;
The politics of AI;
Diplomacy and popular culture;
Social movements, resistance and art;
Climate emergency and everyday life;
Images and imaginaries of emancipation.

CfP: The Popular Culture and World Politics standing section of the EISA (Lille, 27-31 August 2024) invites paper, panel, roundtable proposals!

You can submit your abstract via the conference online platform: pec2024.eisa-net.org.

Deadline: 13 March 2024

Counting The Kids Children killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from 2000 until today

Counting the kids

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"The number of children reported killed in Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019" Save the Children