Black Ballerinas: The Management of Emotional and Aesthetic Labor*

Journalism job advertisements send important signals about valued skills and attributes. How such advertisements articulate journalistic expertise, including interactional expertise, has been studied, but signals about verbal communication usually have been overlooked. Little is known about how journalism employers define the most valued communication skills and the ideal journalistic voice. This signaling theory study explores expectations advertisements convey for how journalists should sound through a thematic analysis of U.S. journalism job listings (n = 510) specifying substantial verbal communication. Requirements for exceptional verbal skills and explicit calls for vocal clarity raise barriers to entry for journalists with speech disabilities or speech anxiety.

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Fashioning Identity Work: The Perils, Politics, and Pleasures of Aesthetic Labor

WSQ Women s Studies Quarterly ◽

10.1353/wsq.2018.0022 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 46 (1-2) ◽

pp. 88-93

Author(s):

David A. Sanchez-Aguilera

Keyword(s):

Identity Work ◽

Aesthetic Labor

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“Running the Numbers”: Modes of Microcelebrity Labor in Queer Women’s Self-Representation on Instagram and Vine

Social Media + Society ◽

10.1177/2056305119894002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 205630511989400

Author(s):

Stefanie Duguay

Keyword(s):

Cultural Production ◽

Common Ground ◽

Economic Capital ◽

Multiple Forms ◽

Queer Women ◽

Affective Labor ◽

Close Analysis ◽

Prominent Component ◽

Aesthetic Labor ◽

Social Media Platforms

Microcelebrity, as a set of practices contributing to personalized self-branding, has become an increasingly prominent component of self-representation on social media platforms. While “influencers” who have built lucrative followings through microcelebrity give the appearance of having fun without much exertion, recent studies have uncovered multiple forms of labor involved in their practices of cultural production. In addition, scholars analyzing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) influencers highlight a tension between labor in service of self-commodification and the representation of sexual minorities. This article examines the microcelebrity labor of everyday queer women who aim to increase their social and economic capital by interweaving personal self-representations with entrepreneurial endeavors on Instagram and Vine. Through a close analysis of these platforms’ markets, governance, and infrastructures alongside interviews with queer female users of each platform, attention is given to both platform influences and participants’ experiences of promoting their jobs, side-gigs, hobbies, or passions alongside the rest of their lives. Findings identify three modes of labor specific to participants’ efforts to build a following: (1) intimate affective labor expended in sharing and managing personal disclosures; (2) developmental aesthetic labor as the acquisition and practice of technical skills and bodily displays to achieve a desired appearance or performance; (3) aspiring relational labor in attempts to forge relationships with established influencers or celebrities. Sexual identity was pivotal across these modes of labor, as it enhanced intimacy with followers, provided a niche audience for self-branding, conveyed authenticity through self-revelation, and established a common ground for forging relationships.

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Values of physical culture: structure, characteristics

Samara Journal of Science ◽

10.17816/snv201763306 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 287-293

Author(s):

Sergey Semenovich Korovin ◽

Lilia Nailievna Maloroshvilo

Keyword(s):

Educational Systems ◽

Physical Culture ◽

Sports Facilities ◽

Optimum Ratio ◽

Sports Activity ◽

Scientific Equipment ◽

Aesthetic Labor ◽

Artistic Images ◽

The Individual

Target development and justification of established theories, technologies, and structures of educational systems is the formation of cultural characteristics of the individual at all stages of continuous education, which reflects the mentality of society and the state (as a result) - development of the value-oriented overbiological programs of human activities, knowledge, abilities and skills of their practical and creative use. It is very important to develop components (their characteristics) of the individual basic culture, which include moral, aesthetic, labor, civil, intellectual (cognitive) and physical cultures. Nowadays, the structure of physical culture values can be represented by a group of material (the human body, sports equipment, sports facilities, mass media, scientific equipment, environmental - natural factors), spiritual (physical, intellectual, pedagogical, mobilization, intention) and artistic (a set of artistic images and works that reflects the values of the material and spiritual spheres of the society) values. The optimum ratio of the used physical culture values is believed to ensure the quality of the content of sports activity and as a consequence - the development of culture among students.

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