Magdalena Olszanowski

Bio: Magdalena Olszanowski is an academic researcher from Concordia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Musical composition & Popular music. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 52 citations.

Feminist Self-Imaging and Instagram: Tactics of Circumventing Sensorship

Abstract: Instagram is an IB-MSN with strict and contradictory rules about its uploaded content. Despite its censorship mechanisms, users are finding creative tactics to maintain their imaging practices to circumvent this sensorship—censoring of the senses. This article focuses on the tactics employed by three women engaging in self-imaging practices. These tactics include, but are not limited to, privatizing accounts, abstracting and/or obscuring the body, and timed removals of photos. These tactics are analyzed in order to make sense of how they typify new forms of mobile image production, distribution, and circulation. These women's reactions to the censorship policies with which they must negotiate provide a new conceptual framework—sentio-aesthetics—challenging the normative values and ideologies surrounding sensorship.

What to Ask Women Composers: Feminist Fieldwork in Electronic Dance Music

Abstract: This article reflects upon the research methods employed for microfemininewarfare (2013), an interactive database documentary that investigates female electronic dance music (EDM) artists. The purpose of the documentary is to feature the contributions of women as composers, to show how they came to be composers and to reveal the tactics used to approach significant issues of gender in the EDM community. I highlight the theoretical and methodological processes that went into the making of this documentary, subtitled “exploring women’s space in electronic music”. By constructing “electronic music by women” as a category, two objectives are addressed: first, the visibility of women’s contribution to the musical tradition is heightened; and, second, it allows an exploration of the broadening of discourses about female subjectivity. This article showcases feminist research-creation and friendship-as-method as effective research methods to glean meaningful content when applied to EDM fieldwork.

Femininity, Time and Feminist Art

Abstract: In Femininity, Time and Feminist Art, Clare Johnson conducts an intergenerational analysis of widely referenced artworks made between the 1970s and 1990s by seven feminist artists (Eleanor Antin, V...

Instagrammatics and digital methods: Studying visual social media, from selfies and GIFs to memes and emoji

Abstract: Visual content is a critical component of everyday social media, on platforms explicitly framed around the visual (Instagram and Vine), on those offering a mix of text and images in myriad forms (Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr), and in apps and profiles where visual presentation and provision of information are important considerations. However, despite being so prominent in forms such as selfies, looping media, infographics, memes, online videos, and more, sociocultural research into the visual as a central component of online communication has lagged behind the analysis of popular, predominantly text-driven social media. This paper underlines the increasing importance of visual elements to digital, social, and mobile media within everyday life, addressing the significant research gap in methods for tracking, analysing, and understanding visual social media as both image-based and intertextual content. In this paper, we build on our previous methodological considerations of Instagram in isolation ...