The Social Construction of Man, the State, and War: Identity, Conflict, and Violence in the Former YugoslaviaThe Social Construction of Man, the State, and War: Identity, Conflict, and Violence in the Former Yugoslavia. By Franke Wilmer. (New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. 339, xvii. $90.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.)

2003 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 937-938
Author(s):  
David N. Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
The State ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
The Social

The Cultural Construction of International Relations: The Invention of the State of Nature. By Beate Jahn. New York: Palgrave, 2000. 182p. $65.00. The State and Identity Construction in International Relations. Edited by Sarah Owen Vandersluis. New York: St. Martin's, 2000. 207p. $69.95.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Author(s):  
Cynthia Weber
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
The State ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conceptual Debate

Conceptualizing the sovereign nation-state remains a core concern in the discipline of international relations (IR). Yet, as the volumes by Sarah Owen Vandersluis and Beate Jahn demonstrate, the theoretical location of this conceptual debate is shifting. Questions of identity, like those regarding sovereign nation-states, were answered in the 1990s with reference to terms like social construction. In the new millennium, “the social” is increasingly joined by “the cultural” as an intellectual marker of how serious IR scholars must pose questions of identity. Why this shift? And what difference does it make to our understandings of sovereign nation-states, not to mention IR theory more generally?

scholarly journals Constructing the check-in: Reflections on photo-taking among Foursquare users

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-117
Author(s):  
Rowan Wilken ◽  
Lee Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Written Responses ◽  
Mobile Social Networking ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
The Social

In this article, we explore the social construction of geomedia in relation to mobile photo-taking. The article draws from a study of location-sensitive mobile social networking and search and recommendation service Foursquare in Melbourne and New York City. The study utilized photo elicitation techniques, with each participant asked to provide photographs they associated with their own Foursquare check-ins, accompanied by written responses to questions designed to encourage them to reflect upon their motivations for recording and uploading each image. What emerged from our analysis of how participants discussed the construction of their Foursquare check-ins, were certain consistencies with the findings of prior work on Foursquare (e.g. to register a new venue or a nice meal, as part of exercises in self-expression, and to record memory traces). Strikingly, though, we also noticed something subtly yet significantly different in relation to photo use. Many of the submitted images and accompanying explanations revealed a particular sensitivity toward the local and the familiar, and a desire to capture “a mood, a feeling”—an “ordinary affect.” In light of this, in this article we are interested in the tension that exists between designed or intended uses of Foursquare, the social appropriation and shaping that is undertaken by Foursquare’s end-users, and the technological and strategic business adjustments that are undertaken by Foursquare in response.

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