A Networked Self and Platforms, Stories, Connections

Zizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Communication Department and Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and University Scholar at the University of Illinois System. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. She has published nine books, including Affective Publics, A Private Sphere, A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites (Routledge, 2010) and over 60 journal articles, book chapters and reviews. She is the founding and current editor of the open access journal Social Media and Society.

Introduction

Zizi Papacharissi

The Networked Self in the Age of Identity Fundamentalism

Daniel Kreiss

News and the Networked Self: Performativity, Platforms, and Journalistic Epistemologies

Matt Carlson and Seth C. Lewis

Publicness on Platforms: Tracing the mutual articulation of platform architectures and user practices

Thomas Poell, Sudha Rajagopalan, and Anastasia Kavada

The Bot Proxy: Designing Automated Self Expression

Samuel Woolley, Samantha Shorey, and Philip Howard

The Emotional Architecture of Social Media

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

"The more I look like Justin Bieber in the pictures, the better": Queer women’s self-representation on Instagram

Stefanie Duguay

Affective Mobile Spectres: Understanding the Lives of Mobile Media Images of the Dead

Larissa Hjorth and Kathleen M. Cumiskey

Cleavage-control: Stories of algorithmic culture and power in the case of the YouTube ‘Reply Girls’.

Taina Bucher

From networked to quantified self: Self-tracking and the moral economy of data

Aristea Fotopoulou

‘Doing’ Local: Place-Based Travel Apps and the Globally Networked Self

Erika Polson

The Networked Self and Defense of Privacy: Reading Surveillance Fiction in the Wake of the Snowden Revelations

Adrienne Russell and Risto Kunelius

Mobile Media Stories and the Process of Designing Contested Landscapes

Jason Farman