The Promiscuity of Network Culture

Queer Theory and Digital Media

By:

Robert Payne

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

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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 serving both to liberalize mediated social connection and to contain it within normative frames of value. Payne brings crucial questions of gender, sexuality, intimacy, and attention back into conversation with recent thinking on network culture and social media, identifying the queer undercurrents of these current media dynamics.

Author Biography:

Robert Payne is Assistant Professor of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France.

Release date Australia

December 12th, 2014

Author

Robert Payne

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

7 Halftones, black and white

Pages

168

Series

Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9781138816510

Product ID

22655687

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