Face Mask Face-Offs

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2021-10-12 DOI:10.1215/08992363-9262919

E. Klinenberg, M. Sherman

引用次数: 2

Abstract

In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has proved to be especially destructive and divisive. One of the few things that has united Americans during the pandemic, however, is the experience of watching a new genre of viral videos—face mask face-offs—that showcase citizens going toe-to-toe in public places because someone refuses to wear a mask. These videos are not mere political theater; they are replete with sociologically meaningful data about the nature of Americans’ cultural divisions. By closely analyzing recorded conflicts over collective coronavirus risks and individual freedoms in public settings, the authors identify six justifications for not wearing a mask. These justifications point to emerging cultural discourses and practices organized around phones that not only point to new ways for us to observe social life but participate in the reconfiguration of social life—and social conflict—itself.

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面具对峙

在美国，新冠肺炎疫情已被证明具有特别的破坏性和分裂性。然而，在疫情期间，让美国人团结在一起的为数不多的事情之一是观看一种新类型的病毒视频——口罩对峙——的体验，这种视频展示了公民在公共场所因为有人拒绝戴口罩而针锋相对。这些视频不仅仅是政治戏剧；它们充满了关于美国人文化分裂本质的有社会学意义的数据。通过仔细分析记录在案的公共环境中关于集体冠状病毒风险和个人自由的冲突，作者确定了不戴口罩的六个理由。这些理由指向了围绕手机组织的新兴文化话语和实践，这些话语和实践不仅为我们观察社会生活指明了新的方式，而且也参与了社会生活和社会冲突本身的重构。

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来源期刊

Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.