Produsing Theory in a Digital World 3.0

Rebecca Ann Lind (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published on race, gender, class and media; journalism; new media; media ethics; and media audiences.

Contents – Acknowledgments – Rebecca Ann Lind: Produsing Theory in a Digital World: Minding the Gap – Ellen Watts and Andrew Chadwick: “With and between you all”: Celebrity Status, User-Audience Networks, and Representative Claims in Emma Watson’s Feminist Politics – Crystal Abidin: L8r H8r: Commoditized Privacy, Influencer Wars, and Productive Disorder in the Influencer Industry – Michael Potts: Production and Performance of White Anti-Racism in Online Media – Sharon Meraz: Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing of #BlackLivesMatter Publics during the 2016 US Presidential Election – James Ngetha Gachau: The Potential of Social Media Groups to Afford Users a Voice – Christina Dunbar-Hester: “Glamorous factories of unpredictable freedom”: Care, Coalition, and Hacking Hacking – Mara Einstein: Religious Influencers: Faith in the World of Marketing – Akane Kanai: Audiences, Affects, Attachments: Theorizing Textual Approaches to Digital Culture – Ehsan Dehghan, Axel Bruns, Peta Mitchell and Brenda Moon: Discourse-Analytical Studies on Social Media Platforms: A Data-Driven Mixed-Methods Approach – Erin L. SpottsWood and Christopher J. Carpenter: The Hyperperception Model: How Observing Others on Social Media Can Affect People in Close Relationships – Marina Krcmar, Drew P. Cingel, Yifan Zhao, and Lauren Taylor: Proposing a Model of Social Media Use and Well-Being – Annette Hill: Audiences Assemble: Becoming an Audience and Produser in Mixed Media Environments – Jaime Banks: Coordination, Continuity, Configuration: Toward a Mattering Framework for Human-Machine Produsing – Robert W. Gehl: Afterword: The Legitimacy of Produsage – Contributors – Index.

“A collection of sparkling ideas from many of the field’s best thinkers, this book is sure to generate productive discussion.”
—Nancy Baym, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

“Through a series of thought-provoking essays bound to appeal to those both in and new to the fields of media and communication studies, this volume minds the gaps between production, audience, and Internet studies, bringing theories of the technological, computational, discursive and critical along for the journey.”
—Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Denver