ISBN:
9781138816510
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (169 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
Parallel Title:
Print version The Promiscuity of Network Culture: Queer Theory and Digital Media
DDC:
302.30285
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Liking, sharing, friending, going viral: what would it mean to recognize these current modes of media interaction as promiscuous? In a contemporary network culture characterized by a proliferation of new forms of intimate mediated sociality, this book argues that promiscuity is a new standard of user engagement. Intimate relations among media users and between users and their media are increasingly structured by an entrepreneurial logic and put to work for the economic interests of media corporations. But these multiple intimacies can also be understood as technologies of promiscuous desire se
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ""Are We Sluts?""; 1 Virality Minus the Virus; 2 Frictionless Sharing; 3 Media Whore; 4 Index Case; 5 Contagious Acts; Conclusion; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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