{"id":1307,"date":"2021-11-26T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T22:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2021-11-26T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T22:07:12","slug":"marielle-dibbini-gaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/26\/marielle-dibbini-gaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Marielle Dibbini: Gaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the reading states, \u201cthe gaze can address gender, race, sexuality, and other identities and reveal how new media intermesh gazing, touching, and accessing\u201d (White 2006, 2005). This reminds me a lot about our discussion on algorithms. We are able to see how some things shown in the media, such as social media, are created for one\u2019s specific gaze. In social media, one\u2019s gaze is seen through their algorithm, whether it be their \u201cfor you page\u201d on TikTok or \u201cexplore page\u201d on Instagram, because they are constantly being shown what interests them. The reading mentioned how some forms of media portray women as objects, because they are designed for the male gaze. As we know, men tend to hold higher positions of power than women, therefore these negative depictions of women are pretty common. An example of this gaze can be seen in movies that are mostly watched by men. In action movies, the male main character is the hero while the female needs to be rescued. Movies such as these are directed towards the male gaze because these films make men feel powerful and superior. This is just one example of how different forms of media are created to address a specific gaze, whether it be gender, race, sexuality, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the reading states, \u201cthe gaze can address gender, race, sexuality, and other identities and reveal how new media intermesh gazing, touching, and accessing\u201d (White 2006, 2005). This reminds me a lot about our discussion on algorithms. We are able to see how some things shown in the media, such as social media, are created for one\u2019s specific gaze. In&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/26\/marielle-dibbini-gaze\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaze"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}