Technology invites a reconsideration of organization and organizing by calling attention to
mediated forms of value production among loose social collectives outside formal …

The uses of social media can be seen as driven by a search for affective intensity translating
as moments of paying attention, no matter how brief these instances may be. In the …

Recently, the smart phone app Kuaishou emerged in China with more than 400 million
registered users. An app where users upload pre-recorded videos and a small number of …

In Phase Media, James Ash theorizes how smart objects, understood as Internet-connected
and sensor-enabled devices, are altering users' experience of their environment. Rather …

What do young people really do with digital media? Young People's Literacies in the Digital
Age aims to debunk the common myths and assumptions that are associated with young …

Loving Fanfiction explores emotion within the context of fandoms, specifically online
fanfiction. Through exploring fans' narratives about themselves and the fanwork they …

This paper probes the function of competition in society through an analysis of the affective
landscape that competition creates. Our focus is on education and the connected process of …

Counter to rationalised conceptualisations of network media as an issue of information
management, retrieval and exchange; online communications are not merely about storing …

Political social media influencers are taking increasingly central and agenda-setting roles
within contemporary media ecologies; however, little in-depth research has been conducted …

Social networks and media hosting sites have recently fostered a growing trend in meme
culture: the circulation of images within strangely specific categories of pleasure such as the …