Mediated Interfaces

Katie Warfield is a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada, and Director of the Visual Media Workshop. Her recent writings have appeared in Social Media + Society, Feminist Media Studies, Language and Literacy, and Feminist Issues, 6th ed. Crystal Abidin is Postdoctoral Fellow with the Media Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC) at Jönköping University, Sweden, Researcher with Handelsrådet (Swedish Retail and Wholesale Development Council), and Adjunct Researcher with the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) at Curtin University, Australia. Carolina Cambre is Assistant Professor of Education at Concordia University, Canada. Her interests include the politics of communication, the issue of representation, critical policy analysis & critical visual sociology and anthropology, all with an eye to social justice issues as well as community and identity broadly speaking.

Introduction

Part One: The Body Mediated
1. ‘Find love in Canada’: Distributed selves, abstraction, and the problem of privacy and autonomy
Vincent Miller, University of Kent, UK

2. Embodied Verification: Linking Identities and Bodies on NSFW Reddit
Emily van der Nagel, Monash University, Australia

3. #ILYSM*: Instagram as Fan Practice, Hattie Liew,
National University of Singapore, Singapore

4. Ethan’s Golden YouTube Play Button: The evolution of a child influencer
Carolina Cambre and Maha Abdul Ghani, Concordia University, Canada

Part Two: The Body Politicized
5. Performing Visibility: Representing the Palestinian Freedom Riders through Non-Violent Protest and Visual Activism
Gary Bratchford, University of Central Lancashire, UK

6. #WhoNeedsFeminism? Mapping Leaky, Networked Affective Feminist Resistance
Jessica Ringrose, UCL London, UK and Kaity Mendes, University of Leicester, UK

7. ‘Smart is the Nü (boshi) Sexy’: How China’s PhD women are fighting stereotypes using social media
Jing Zeng, IKMZ Zurich, Switzerland

8. Online Ajumma: Self-presentations of contemporary elderly women via digital media in Korea
Jung Moon, Seoul Women's University, South Korea and Crystal Abidin, Curtin University, Australia

Part Three: The Body Felt
9. Naked and Unafraid: Nudity in Reclaiming Witchcraft Rituals
Emma Quilty, University of Newcastle, Australia

10. “It’s like a rush of ‘man’ feeling”: Analyzing sexuality and felt-sense in men’s digital media communications
Kaye Hare, University of British Columbia, Canada

11. Agential hysterias: a practice approach to embodiment on social media
Katrin Tiidenberg, Lea Muldtofte, and Ane Katherine Gammelby, Talinn University, Estonia

12. Picture Me Naked. Embodying Images On Screen and Off
Tobias Bol, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany

Work Cited
List of Contributors
Index