{"id":68966,"date":"2016-05-31T21:34:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T02:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=68966"},"modified":"2016-05-31T21:34:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T02:34:22","slug":"this-month-in-socimages-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/05\/31\/this-month-in-socimages-may-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"This Month in SocImages (May 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This month marked what would have been Frankie Manning&#8217;s 102nd\u00a0birthday. Google marked it with a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles\/frankie-mannings-102nd-birthday\" target=\"_blank\">Google doodle<\/a>&#8221; and it sparked some conversation online about this extraordinary African American early dancer of the\u00a0lindy hop. Among them was a discussion of the racial politics\u00a0of the dance and its revival\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/5\/26\/11776066\/frankie-mannings-102nd-birthday\" target=\"_blank\">Vox<\/a>,\u00a0including an quote from a <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/27\/race-entertainment-and-trans-racial-historical-borrowing-the-case-of-lindy-hop\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>\u00a0 here on Sociological Images.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/df1aHPysLN4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to past SocImages posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/04\/does-this-sign-suprise-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">walk signs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/12\/27\/the-marketing-tactics-of-firearm-manufacturers\/\" target=\"_blank\">guns<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/12\/27\/gendered-and-the-body-language-of-power\/\" target=\"_blank\">gendered body language<\/a>, I was also interviewed for articles on <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcity.org\/daily\/entry\/designing-gender-into-and-out-of-public-space\" target=\"_blank\">design in urban space<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjstar.com\/article\/20160502\/NEWS\/160509944\" target=\"_blank\">gun marketing<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/143834\/eye-rolling-the-secret-language-of-women#.QcJAXTrVW\" target=\"_blank\">eye-rolling<\/a>. And, more generically, <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/307947\/working-class-students-hookup-culture-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\">social class and hookup culture<\/a>, male friendship, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/2016\/05\/94626\/penis-pictures-real-men#slide\" target=\"_blank\">men&#8217;s relationships with their most private part<\/a>. It was a busy month!<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #444444;\">You like! \u00a0Here are our most appreciated posts this month:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #444444;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/05\/04\/women-are-less-happy-than-men-in-marriage-so-why-does-the-media-insist-otherwise\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women are less happy than men in marriage, so why does the media insist otherwise?<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/05\/09\/the-invisible-worry-work-of-mothering\/\" target=\"_blank\">The invisible worry work of mothering<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/05\/16\/the-trucker-his-downfall-and-the-us-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">The trucker, his downfall, and the US economy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/05\/10\/i-feel-like-and-the-new-individualizing-of-morality\/\" target=\"_blank\">I feel like and the new individualizing of morality<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/05\/05\/early-research-on-police-body-cameras-supports-use\/\" target=\"_blank\">Early research on police body cameras suggests they reduce violence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/05\/12\/database-enables-users-to-choose-films-based-on-gender-balance\/\" target=\"_blank\">New database enables users to choose films based on gender balance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/05\/20\/is-the-mrs-degree-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is the MRS degree dead?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Thanks everybody!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s pick:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/05\/30\/the-architecture-of-gentrification-or-the-dining-rooms-are-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\">The architecture of gentrification; Or, the dining rooms are coming!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Social Media Milestones!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached a couple big thresholds this month: 15,000 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/socimages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a> and 25,000 on <a href=\"http:\/\/socimages.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>See you in June!<\/strong><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month marked what would have been Frankie Manning&#8217;s 102nd\u00a0birthday. Google marked it with a &#8220;Google doodle&#8221; and it sparked some conversation online about this extraordinary African American early dancer of the\u00a0lindy hop. Among them was a discussion of the racial politics\u00a0of the dance and its revival\u00a0at Vox,\u00a0including an quote from a post\u00a0 here on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":68967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-68966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/05\/May.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68969,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966\/revisions\/68969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}