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Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Social media platforms are imbued with politics and values through an interplay of coded architectures, platform policies, economic models, and algorithmic curation, together shaping and shaped by the activities of users. This dynamic set of relations is most evident during moments of disruption, in which platform politics and values come under debate.
Sean Ward   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heroes, Victims, and Resisters: Agentic Vulnerability and Techniques of Identity Talk in Digitalized Job Centers

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article explores vulnerable clients' techniques of identity talk, drawing on interviews with clients in Danish job centers. We combine the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism with the sociology of nothing to explore techniques of disidentification from the nonworker identity.
Alexandrina Schmidt, Susie Scott
wiley   +1 more source

Motherhood Biographies and Health over the Life Course. [PDF]

open access: yesSociol Compass
Thomeer MB   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Task‐Designated Identities in Danish Homeless Shelters

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This paper is based on an ethnographic study of how domesticity is enacted and adapted at homeless shelters for determining which clients are “service worthy .” The study draws on nineteen placement meetings with homeless men and focuses on institutional mechanisms for encouraging homemaking skills or domesticity among clients.
Amir B. Marvasti, Nanna Mik‐Meyer
wiley   +1 more source

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