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With childhood blurring into youth in most contemporary Western societies, public perceptions and concern about "the young" seem to proliferate as a result of the urge to police the boundary between childhood and youth - whether regarding sexual health (as a corollary of sexual experience or sexual knowledge), children's and youth's media uses and cultural practices, or consumption of popular culture. The authors are sensitive to the lack of adequate research as to how young refugees participate in out-of-school educational settings due to specific needs and requirements - even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic, where the digital exclusion of young refugees from educational settings was exacerbated. 3 Barbovschi, M., Ní Bhroin, N., Chronaki, D., Ciboci, L., Farrugia, L., Lauri, M. A., Sevcíková, A., Staksrud, E., Tsaliki, L., & Velicu, A. (2021). [Extracted from the article]

This study investigates the accusation strategies utilized by both Israel and Hamas during the Al Aqsa Flood operation. Through a comprehensive analysis of twenty-four speeches delivered by Abu-Obieda, the military spokesman of Hamas, and Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the military spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), this research identifies key accusation patterns and examines the application of Aristotle's modes of persuasion (ethos, pathos, and logos) alongside word frequency analysis. The Results reveal that while Abu-Obieda leverages emotional and ethical appeals supported by tangible evidence (e.g., videos, eyewitness accounts), Hagari adopts a more strategically balanced approach, combining emotional, logical, and ethical arguments to shape public perception. This study introduced a rigorously defined framework for categorizing accusations in conflict discourse, contributing to both rhetorical theory and conflict communication strategies. Future research should further explore the evolving dynamics of accusation strategies, media influence, and public opinion in conflict zones to improve communication and promote reconciliation efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigated the prevalence of receiving sexts among adolescents and its relationship with depressive symptoms and self-esteem. A survey was administered to 728 high school students in Sweden in 2019 and 2020 (50.4% girls and 46.4% boys) using a cross-sectional design. Findings showed that significantly more boys (28.4%) than girls (12.6%) reported having happily received a sexual picture, while significantly more girls (48.8%) than boys (s.2%) reported having received an unwanted sexual picture at least once in their life. Happily receiving a sexual picture was not related to any of the investigated mental health correlates among girls, whereas it was positively associated with depressive symptoms among boys. Receiving an unsolicited sexual picture was associated with higher depressive symptoms and lower self-esteem for both boys and girls. This work offers a novel approach to studying the reception of sexual images by teenagers Practical implications of the present findings are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Epidemics of self-injury are increasingly framed as public health crises and risk facing youth in Canada. This article examines the discursive construction of youth self-injury as risk in mainstream Canadian news articles through a neoliberal governmentality framework. It argues that self-injury risk discourses are consistent with neoliberal mental health paradigms, which individualize and depoliticize distress while responsibilizing individuals for recovery and wellbeing. The construction of youth self-injury in terms of risk simultaneously undergirds the surveillance, regulation, and coercive control of self-injuring subjects. Based on a critical discourse analysis of Canadian news articles addressing the problem of youth self-injury, this article identifies and discusses three interrelated themes from study findings: social (media) contagion, failed resilience, and system overwhelm. Ultimately, it suggests that the construction of self-injury in terms of risk frames self-injuring youth as failed neoliberal subjects. Risk discourses are therefore incompatible with social justice paradigms in mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the representation of female athletes in Gatorade's Sister in Sweat (2019) and Adidas' Reimagine Sport (2020) Femvertising campaigns. Adopting a critical feminist lens, this study examined verbal and visual strategies and the post-feminist elements that sports brands apply to communicate female-empowering messages. Guided by Fairclough's framework of critical discourse analysis and Kress and van Leeuwen's visual grammar, a multimodal critical discourse analysis was conducted to analyze verbal–visual strategies and semiotic resources used to construct/challenge the gender relations in sports. Also, following Gill's post-feminist media culture, recurring themes that characterize female athlete representation are identified. These themes include femininity as a bodily preoccupation, sexualization, individualism and choice, self-surveillance, and intersectionality. Results reveal that, despite the sports brands' support of gender equality and female empowerment through femvertising, gender stereotypes still exist within the campaigns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article engages with the manufacture/purchase of feminine beauty, especially via cosmetic surgery, U.S. citizenship, and prosperity Christianity. It aligns the Kardashians' form of capitalist beauty with their Christian rhetoric in context of their uptake of 'surplus citizenship'. I argue that prosperity Christianity together with certain aesthetic body modifications reveal a contemporary version of U.S. citizenship that speaks of entrepreneurial self-enhancement, national belonging, and affluence. I show that this 'new' type of citizenship is rooted in deeply racialised practices and processes. A case study – the rise and fall of the so-called 'Brazilian butt lift' (BBL) – is offered in order to demonstrate these ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The feminist approach to sexuality education challenges and changes power dynamics and inequalities embedded within sexuality, while social media serves as a tool for building online communities and raising awareness about feminist issues. Adopting a feminist approach to sexuality education, particularly through social media platforms, remains largely unexplored and underdeveloped. In China, where traditional sex education is often limited and stigmatized, sexuality has been influenced by a complex interplay of traditional gender norms, evolving social attitudes, and state intervention. The aim of this study was to evaluate both sex educators and their online followers' perceptions of the implementation of social media-based sexuality education using a feminist approach in China. Semi-structured online interviews were carried out with 10 educators and 18 young followers, followed by thematic analysis using NVivo. The findings indicated that social media-based sexuality education using a feminist approach might be used to help disrupt oppressive norms about gender and sexuality and foster a positive attitude toward women's sexuality. Chinese online sex educators strategically avoided the term "feminism" and creatively evaded censorship and spread their messages in alignment with government policies while advocating for gender equality. However, participants also highlighted the existence of barriers, including internal conflicts, gender imbalances, social stigmatization, and political constraints, which needed to be addressed in order to effectively implement this approach., Competing Interests: Declarations Conflicts of interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. Ethical Approval Ethics approval was received from the University of Hong Kong Human Research Ethics Committee before the commencement of the research (reference no. EA220358) on August 4, 2022. Informed consent All study participants provided informed consent prior to study enrollment., (© 2024. The Author(s).)

In recent years, fans of the internationally renowned K-pop group, BTS, (affectionately known as "ARMY"), has achieved global renown with their social political engagement, both online and offline, in different locales, epitomizing the best marriage between globalized popular culture as agent of universal humanitarian ideals, and participatory fandom. On the other hand, the K-pop group has caught backlash from mainland Chinese fen (fans), sparking controversy between transnationalized (pop) fandom (which supposedly could allude to a sense of cosmopolitanism) and (local) nationalism. In this paper, I wish to address, through the case of some Hong Kong BTS fan clubs, the subjectivity of some Asian fans and their complex (layers of) affective and tactical negotiation with competing forces, which are intertwined with (their coping with) the local political juncture. Through in-depth interviews with different fan page organizers of BTS fans/ fan clubs, I will critically discuss how they (resort to) performing "rationality" to balance these forces on the one hand, while inadvertently asserting the boundaries in the seamlessly global flows of popular culture (in the increasingly turbulent Asian context). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Greek television industry is facing the new challenges of the streaming era while still recovering from a decade-long debt crisis (2009–2019) that has been the focus of public attention both within the EU and beyond. This study, following the "critical media industry studies" research approach, aims to synthesise the state of knowledge of the sector in the aftermath of this crisis period by combining disparate academic approaches and examining the ways in which decision makers responded to economic and regulatory shifts; thus providing an overview of the Greek television industry that contributes to the theoretical development of the field and also has practical implications for media practitioners and policy makers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Childhood sexuality is a culturally constructed notion, which has constantly been subjected to change. Various constructions of childhood sexuality represent different attitudes toward children's engagement in sex. As a substantial factor in regulating children's sexuality, a country's age of consent legislation is an important indicator of the national legislators' attitudes toward childhood sexuality. This study summarizes four main discourses around child sexuality, ranging from traditional constructions that solely focus on protecting the child's "innocence" to modern notions that provide more leeway for children to explore their sexuality. By juxtaposing these discourses against the current age of consent laws in 57 European jurisdictions, it appears that national law makers in Europe are still mainly influenced by the traditional construction of childhood sexuality, which results in various negative consequences. To avoid the disconnect between academic discussions about childhood sexuality and legislators' rationales for their actions, it is recommended that legislators take the latest findings in academia into account and reflect on the rationales behind their legislation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses information from freedom of information requests to find the rate of children who were subject to social work interventions in Scotland before the age of 5. It finds that more than one in every four children were referred to social work and provides the rates for other types of interventions including children investigated for child protection, becoming looked after and being adopted. Despite differences in legislation and the judicial system, the study shows many similarities in rates of intervention in Scotland to similar longitudinal studies in England. The study found wide variations between local authorities in rates of these different interventions, which for most interventions was moderately correlated with deprivation and, in the case of the high disparities in rates of referral and child protection investigation, had little correlation with deprivation. The likelihood of children's involvement with social work varied markedly depending on where they lived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines Greek young women's attitudes towards pornography and identifies specific context-related social-psychological and socio-cultural predictors of women's pornography consumption. An exploratory cross-sectional study was conducted between September 8 and November 28, 2021, via an online survey. This study's convenience sample consisted of female undergraduate students (N = 197) who were recruited from two universities in the northern part of Greece. A between-subject, correlational design was employed. Next, a multiple regression model was employed to predict attitudes toward pornography from the other study measures, based on the significance of the associations. Grounded on the theoretical line that individual attitudes are significantly influenced by exposure to context-specific socializing agents, this study examined whether the impact of religiosity on attitudes towards pornography would be mediated by normative pressure (social norms). This study's results identify specific context-related social-psychological and socio-cultural predictors of women's attitudes toward pornography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How much can a celebrity's involvement with a charity campaign change minds and shape political opinion? We explore this issue in the context of an appeal by Benedict Cumberbatch regarding the Syrian refugee crisis. We find that while the emotional, vivid images of the video did elicit a statistically significant increase in students' positive feelings toward Syrian refugees and efforts to help them, surprisingly, Cumberbatch's plea had no effect at all on these political views. Post-experiment focus groups allowed us to further probe these findings, and we suggest that viewer skepticism reduces celebrity influence, but that celebrity may be more effective as a "hook" in grabbing viewers' attention, than in actually swaying their views. We also find that participation in a charity plea has the potential to benefit celebrities themselves by dramatically improving viewers' perceptions of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reveals how Hungarian parties expand their members' participatory repertoires in intra-party democracy with the help of information and communication technology. By answering the question of how Hungarian parties use digital tools for their internal procedures the article adds to the literature on parties' use of technology. To make visible the promises and boundaries of online political participation in a post-communist country the article relies on 26 semi-structured interviews with Hungarian politicians from 10 parties conducted in 2020. The findings indicate that top-down communication dominates Hungarian parties' practices, and social media is highly popular and is used for both external and internal reasons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frequently called the most persecuted minority in the world, the Rohingyas have suffered systematic violence and oppression in Myanmar since the 1970s. Today, the vast majority of the nearly three million Rohingyas are in exile, escaping state-sponsored human rights violations and persecution in the Rakhine state of Myanmar—a place they call "home". Neighbouring Bangladesh, which currently hosts over a million displaced Rohingya, has been a 'sanctuary' for at least the last four decades. A sizable community has also emerged successively in other South-East Asian countries and pockets of Australia, Europe and North America. In this context, bringing together issues at the crossroads of (im)mobilities, online connectivity and the quest for identity, this study examines the role of social media platforms in forming and shaping new types of diaspora activism among the exiled Rohingyas. Drawing on yearlong online ethnographic findings, it unpacks how digital platforms constitute a space for togetherness, where diasporic Rohingya identities are constructed, contested and mediated. Analysing recurring themes and patterns of engagement on these web-based platforms, the paper looks at how diasporic civic and political e-activisms are transforming the very contours of Rohingya identity formation and their pursuit of recognition. Finally, focusing on such a creative constellation of socio-cultural and political issues in virtual space, we demonstrate how Rohingyas practice a politics of resistance and recognition when confronting the policy pretensions of Myanmar's government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The current technological development and the increased access of people of different ages to devices connected to the Internet pose new challenges to the law enforcement for preventing, as well as for investigating such crimes. Children, who have access to multiple devices connected to the internet, in association with other factors linked to their age, are a very vulnerable segment of population. As members of the implementation team of the Cyberex RO Project - Improving, cooperating and preventing in the fight against cybercrime, we conducted a research aiming to identify the main risks and vulnerabilities faced by young students aged 10 to 18 in Romania in the online environment. The results were used to train police officers from crime prevention units in Romania, in order to increase their understanding of cybercrime and current trends. This paper discusses the results of the qualitative analysis of interviews with law enforcement officers from ten counties in Romania regarding the main challenges that the police have faced in handling cyber cases involving children, in order to substantiate, on a scientific basis, the activities of preventing cybercrime against children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background: Academic dishonesty (AD) and trustworthy assessment (TA) are fundamental issues in the context of an online assessment. However, little systematic work currently exists on how researchers have explored AD and TA issues in online assessment practice. Objectives: Hence, this research aimed at investigating the latest findings regarding AD forms, factors affecting AD and TA, and solutions to reduce AD and increase TA to maintain the quality of online assessment. Methods: We reviewed 52 articles in Scopus and Web of Science databases from January 2017 to April 2021 using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses model as a guideline to perform a systematic literature review that included three stages, namely planning, conducting, and reporting. Results and conclusions: Our review found that there were different forms of AD among students in online learning namely plagiarism, cheating, collusion, and using jockeys. Individual factors such as being lazy to learn, lack of ability, and poor awareness as well as situational factors including the influence of friends, the pressure of the courses, and ease of access to information were strongly associated with AD. A technology‐based approach such as using plagiarism‐checking software, multi‐artificial intelligence (AI) in a learning management system, computer adaptive tests, and online proctoring as well as pedagogical‐based approaches, such as implementing a research ethics course programme, and a re‐design assessment form such as oral‐based and dynamic assessment to reduce cheating behaviour and also sociocultural and sociotechnical adjustment related to the online assessment are reported to reduce AD and increase TA. Implications: Educators should adjust the design of online learning and assessment methods as soon as possible. The identified gaps point towards unexplored study on AI, machine learning, learning analytics tools, and related issues of AD and TA in K12 education could motivated future work in the field. Lay Description: What is already known about this topic: Online assessment has become a global trend in the last 10 years, especially since PISA (2015) and TIMSS (2019) were adopted, then, the increasing adoption of MOOCs and online learning due to the COVID‐19 pandemic.Academic dishonesty (AD) and trustworthy assessment (TA) are hot issues in online assessment practices that are interesting to study.Research findings on the associated factors of AD and efforts to increase TA in online assessments are still inconclusive.Contemporary research on AD and TA in online assessment lacks of comprehensive systematic review. What this paper adds: This paper systematically reviewed 5 years of empirical research (2017–2021) on AD and TA in online assessment in both K‐12 and higher education.This paper revealed the most recent trends developing in the literature regarding the factors contributing to the appearance of AD in online assessment.This paper revealed a recent report on efforts to improve TA in online assessment.This paper recommended several new pedagogical and technological approaches to reduce AD and increase TA in online assessment. Implications for practice: Education managers, professional associations, teachers, and lecturers need to reeducate the academic community about the risks of AD in online assessments.Teachers need to redesign the form of online assessment to achieve HOTs and reduce multiple‐choice questions. On the other hand, oral‐based, project‐based assessments, and student work portfolios are encouraged to be adopted.Online assessment using an adaptive and intelligent online assessment approach, randomization of delivery question systems, smart proctoring, AI for online assessment, and learning analytic technology is recommended to be studied massively.Research on AD and TA at the K‐12 and higher education levels needs to be intensified considering online learning programs in the era of the COVID‐19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports on survey work and group discussion by a Scottish parent-led support group (Parents Advocacy and Rights – PAR) that supports parents with children in the care system. A previous paper has been published discussing an overview of the survey results (www.pfan.uk/uncovering-the-pain/). The present paper delves further into parents' particular experiences of contact. The responses are preceded by a critical retrospective of the concept of contact. Our retrospective covers the language of contact, contact's origins, continuing confusions of meaning and the lack of appreciation of the parental experience and points to the artificiality of contact, the impracticalities of contact arrangements and the toll taken by these. We conclude by pointing out that we are in the fourth decade of recommendations about contact between parents and children in state care. We make the observations that there is a continuing failure to empathise with parents' experience of deprivation and loss, a lack of comprehension of the depth of detriment to parental identity caused by the process and practices of contact and avoidance of discussion of the damage to the parent–child relationship which, irrespective of the ultimate destination of a child in state care, cannot be obliterated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aimed at exploring trends in parental mediation that have unravelled over eight years' time in 12 European countries. Relying on the EU Kids Online survey, the study focused on 11–16‐year‐old children's perceptions of parental mediation strategies and the main changes therein between the data collection waves of 2010 and 2018. The analysis demonstrated that active mediation has seen a significant increase in several European countries. While cross‐cultural disparities remain large, restrictive mediation has decreased, indicating that the focus of parental strategies is moving away from setting rules and restrictions towards guiding children in their internet use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Images and representations of parenting, and particularly mothering, have become commonplace on social media platforms over the past decade. These displays, however, take place in the context of popular contemporary discourses around gender and parenting that are in many ways prescriptive. This paper explores the constructions of mothering online through an analysis of posts about mothers on Mother's Day from 2018 to 2020. Data were collected from Instagram and Twitter using hashtags such as #mothersday, #happymothersday and #motheringsunday. Both content and thematic analyses were conducted. This paper will consider three main themes that were identified in the data: "Beauty & biology"; "Grief & loss" and "Care (& COVID)", with a focus on constructions of gendered parenting and family through the explicit celebration of the lives and roles of mothers. The findings provide insight into normative constructions of gender and how these are mediated through the affordances of social media platforms in a neoliberal context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While heritage has been an important topic in international relations for decades, little attention has been paid to studying and understating its role in diplomacy. Yet, not only does heritage play an important role in cultural diplomacy, but there is also another type of diplomacy, often overlooked by scholars and practitioners alike – heritage diplomacy. Although it isn't widely acknowledged, activities that constitute heritage diplomacy are important tools in cultivating soft power, and many countries 'use' them. Several countries decided to incorporate heritage into their diplomatic relations, thus using it in diplomacy, while others go beyond that, actively using heritage to support their foreign policy, thus using it as diplomacy. Because of that, this article will examine several cases of such practice in order to explore the different uses of heritage in diplomacy, and provide a practice based theoretical framework for understanding these uses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, digitalization has detached television content from the television screen, and so the television is no longer the only choice for personal audio-visual consumption. The audio-visual market is facing increased fragmentation due to the multiplicity of delivering platforms. Furthermore, the digital touch has brought about far-reaching changes in people's audio-visual consumption practices. The protagonists of this new digital landscape are the members of Generation Z (GenZ), who are early adopters of the digital innovation. In this article, contemporary consumption behaviours of audio-visual content, contrasting those at the times of traditional television viewing, are explored in the context of the GenZ community. In Greece, GenZ represent nearly 20 per cent of the entire population and makes an interesting target to be scrutinized under the prism of ongoing studies of media usage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Young people encounter and experience both risks and opportunities when participating as actors and interactors in online spaces. Digital skills and resilience are considered important parts of a "rights-based" approach to keeping young people "safe" online in ways that enable them to avoid harm while benefiting from the opportunities. The present paper discusses findings from focus group research conducted in England with 60 young people aged 13 to 21. The research explored their perspectives on responding to different online harms, including online hate, unwanted sexual content, and unrealistic body- and appearance-related content. The findings are discussed in terms of scholarship on digital citizenship, specifically regarding the social, affective, and technical dimensions of online life and the skills required for resilience. The analysis suggests that there was a tension between young people's individualistic responsibilisation of themselves and one another for responding to risk online and the socio-emotional aspects of online life as perceived and recounted by them in the focus groups. It is concluded that a youth-centred approach to resilience is required that encapsulates the multidimensional nature of encountering, experiencing, and responding to risk online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current technological development and the increased access of people of different ages to devices connected to the Internet pose new challenges to the law enforcement for preventing, as well as for investigating such crimes. Children, who have access to multiple devices connected to the internet, in association with other factors linked to their age, are a very vulnerable segment of population. As members of the implementation team of the Cyberex RO Project - Improving, cooperating and preventing in the fight against cybercrime, we conducted a research aiming to identify the main risks and vulnerabilities faced by young students aged 10 to 18 in Romania in the online environment. The results were used to train police officers from crime prevention units in Romania, in order to increase their understanding of cybercrime and current trends. This paper discusses the results of the qualitative analysis of interviews with law enforcement officers from ten counties in Romania regarding the main challenges that the police have faced in handling cyber cases involving children, in order to substantiate, on a scientific basis, the activities of preventing cybercrime against children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores Finnish regulatory authorities' attempts to mitigate young people's participation in mediated sexuality. Previous studies have argued that both attempted regulation and education about media and sexuality are often out of touch with many adolescents' lives. This study uses a Foucauldian inspired critical investigative method to unpack the pedagogical messages that frame official statements and the approaches used by Finnish authorities to regulate mediated sexual exchanges. Focusing on the uses of shame as an ongoing pedagogical strategy, the article reveals the limits of social policing. It also sheds light on alternative possibilities and their implications for different aspects of mediated sexuality (autonomy, privacy and consent among other things) that are currently effaced by the regulatory discourse deployed by the Finnish Police Force. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Memory and questions about its formation are subjects of considerable attention. Nevertheless, memory actors promoting narratives about the past are often sidelined and ignored, and studies exploring questions regarding the relationships between memory actors and available media and communication technologies are scarce despite the importance of such tools. This study attempts to fill this theoretical gap by analyzing a unique case study from Israel – the work of memory policy-actors on a governmental expert committee that made various recommendations for empowering the Mizrahi communities in Israel and to promote the Mizrahi right to memory.. Among other recommendations, most notable was the recommendation to produce a new documentary series, The Mizrahi Pillar of Fire, that would counter the Mizrahi narrative's ongoing marginalization. This unique recommendation raises intriguing questions on how memory actors perceived different media's roles in creating, portraying, and disseminating memory. By conducting in-depth interviews with committee members and a close analysis of the final committee report and related official documents, this study highlights how actors' perceptions about media and memory shaped the recommendation to produce a new documentary series. Thus it contributes to scholars interested in understanding the relationship between memory actors, media, and how a society's memory is constructed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite international inquiry regarding young people's encounters with Internet pornography (IP), there is a lack of knowledge about how their caregivers (parents or guardians) and educators perceive these encounters in comparison to young people. Such knowledge is critical to understanding the synergies and discrepancies that might exist between these key stakeholder groups (youth, caregivers and educators) and across genders, to subsequently inform how to best support youth in navigating IP. To this end, the present study describes youth (16–18-year olds) encounters with IP, as well as caregiver and educator perceptions of these encounters. An online survey was completed by 256 youth and 217 caregivers and educators recruited from nine schools with an existing investment in sexuality education in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Similar to global trends, this group of young New Zealanders were familiar with IP and patterns of encounters were gendered. However, there were varied understandings between stakeholder groups and across genders as to why and how these encounters occur. Understanding the ways youth encounter IP—and exploring how caregivers and educators perceive these encounters—serves as a springboard for future research that considers the broader socio-cultural context within which these perspectives are constructed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

American Olympic athlete and former reality television star Caitlyn Jenner remains a polarising figure in discussions of celebrity culture, transgender visibility, and social activism due to her conservative political views and limited knowledge about the issues non-famous transgender people face in society. Since reintroducing herself as a transgender woman in 2015, Jenner has been framed as a figurehead for transgender activism in mass media due to her avowed intention to disrupt transphobia and Twitter commentary on politics, and equally accused of commodifying her transgender experience for economic gain. Given the many questions surrounding the legitimacy of Jenner's transgender advocacy and her intentional use of Twitter as a medium to discuss transgender politics, this research conducted a textual analysis of Jenner's Twitter account, @Caitlyn_Jenner to examine how the transgender celebrity used social media to discuss her lived experiences as a transgender woman and advocate on behalf of the transgender community. The findings supported prior scholarly criticisms of Jenner's celebrity image, online celebrity activism, and transwomen's representations in celebrity culture. @Caitlyn_Jenner fostered online social connections and discussions with her transgender followers. However, Jenner did not facilitate any collective social movement actions due to her ideological differences with Republican and transgender communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leonardo DiCaprio has a considerable track record as a fervent campaigner to save the environment and combat climate change. Drawing from his more recent activist engagements to endorse Formula E, the world's first fully electric racing series, this contribution aims to analyse how and in what ways this generates additional exposure and appreciation for the series, the environment and DiCaprio. To this end, a qualitative and inductive framing approach is used to examine a sample of online media articles and accompanying audience comments from 2013, 2015 and 2017, resulting in a range of frames found in media coverage and audience reactions. It shows how framing of Leonardo DiCaprio is influenced by both his life story as an actor, activist and party boy, the appreciation he receives from audiences as well as by audiences' own personal experiences with health-related issues and their conversations with peers. Finally, this contribution discusses varying tendencies by media articles and audiences to frame Leonardo DiCaprio as both hero and hypocrite as well as its wider implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We have witnessed the growth and spread of celebrity culture worldwide, from A-list celebrities to ordinary individuals turned micro-celebrities. However, celebrity studies are still lacking in exploring celebrity culture in the global South that has recently seen growth in their micro-celebrities afforded by rising individualism, commodification, and social media penetration. This paper aims to address this gap by examining micro-celebrity practices in three Muslim-majority states in Southeast Asia, namely Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia. This paper reveals that celebrification and celebritization processes in these societies demonstrate context appropriation, adaptation, localization, and transcultural flow of celebrity culture. Through the examination of contextualized socio-cultural configurations brought by the micro-celebrities – namely rising local consciousness, development of new subjectivities, and young people's self-mobilities – this paper contributes to the celebritization process, which goes beyond the individual celebrity to consider the nature of celebrity and its social and cultural embedding in the Muslim-majority Southeast Asian societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the article, the authors discuss their efforts to address the issues over the alleged aesthetization of pregnant bodies on social media. Also cited are the representation of pregnant bodies as aesthetic objects on social media, how counter-narrations of pregnancy focusing on pregnant female bodily functions could prevent said aesthetization, as well as the communication and representation strategies linked to ultrasound images and videos on Instagram.

Scholarship of celebrity humanitarianism has been dominated by Western icons like Angelina Jolie, Madonna, and Bono, whose high-profile engagement has sought to alleviate various political, ecological, and humanitarian crises. In the past two decades, Asian stars have engaged in humanitarian issues as extensively as their North American or European counterparts. The intellectual effort devoted to this category of celebrity, nevertheless, remains scarce. To fill this gap, this article explores the crossover image of celebrated and powerful Bollywood celebrity-humanitarian, Aamir Khan. In what ways does Khan's goodwill envision and contend cosmopolitan ideals? How does his commercialised presence in China complicate or explicate his embodied experience of advocacy? Finally, what does his commercial and benevolent engagement convey about Asian celebrity power in the global politics of star-making? This article adopts cosmopolitanism as the critical framework to examine Khan's oscillation between cosmopolitan prospects and local attachments. It argues Khan's Asian-yet-global persona exhibits a new mode of consciousness, which I describe as cosmopolitical, to thrive commercially and benevolently in multiple cultural and media networks. By so doing, this article not only attempts to disrupt Western-centric scholarship about celebrity humanitarianism but also expands the parameter of analysing Asian star power in bourgeoning networked cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our research sits at the intersection of communication studies, sociology, cyberculture, and political philosophy and theory. In 2014, a 10+-min segment on polyamory aired on Portuguese open-access national television, during the prime-time newscast, and was viewed by several million people, according to official reports. The news piece was also advertised and shared online, especially via Facebook, by the network's official page. Moreover, the piece was aired within the context of a segment that celebrated the 40-year anniversary of the 1974 liberal revolution that overthrew the right-wing dictatorial regime that ruled Portugal for more than half of the twentieth century. This context served to frame polyamory (alongside other topics) as explicitly political by presenting them as freedoms seized by that liberal revolution. This study used a mixed-method approach to the analysis of online comments on Facebook made with respect to the referred news piece, by deploying both content analysis and critical discourse analysis to try to understand how the political nature of polyamory is negotiated (affirmed or disavowed), and what ideal of the "political" is mobilized in that negotiation, in connection with other elements of intimate citizenship and modes of systemic discrimination. Through this analysis, we will deepen our understanding of how lay people construe the "political" and the (non-)politicalness of polyamory. It also helps advance contemporary understandings of how polyamory is represented in mainstream media, understood by audiences, and how media-and debates on online social networks-can both amplify and help fight against harmful stereotypes of minorities. Through this research, we contribute to political theory by opening up new ways of conceptualizing the realm of the political as an open-ended definition that must encompass changes in modes of sociality, including a politics of relating as a sub-field, likewise to the study of social movements, and their strategies, around consensual non-monogamies. Overall, results show that the recognition of the validity of polyamory is not the same as the realization that relationship orientation is a political issue in itself and that a privatized mode of understanding politics seems prevalent as well as the default framework used in the comments we analyzed. In addition to that, and as other research has already noted, incivility and hate speech was prevalent in online comments and discussions, further dampening the political potential of dissident modes of existence, especially given that incivility is also deployed by those speaking in favor of Othered identities and experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]