Communication and Information Technologies Annual

Edited by Laura Robinson, Department of Sociology, Santa Clara University Jeremy Schulz, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, University of California, Berkeley Shelia R. Cotton, Department of Media and Information, Michigan State University Timothy M. Hale, Partners Center for Connected Health, Harvard Medical School Apryl A. Williams, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University Joy L. Hightower, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Introduction: Volume 11 - Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz, Shelia R. Cotten, Timothy M. Hale, Apryl A. Williams and Joy L. Hightower
SECTION I: COMMUNICATIVE CULTURES
On Violating One’s Own Privacy: N-adic Utterances and Inadvertent Disclosures in Online Venues - Xiaoli Tian and Daniel A. Menchik
Couples’ Use of Technology in Maintaining Relationships - Xiaolin Zhuo
SECTION II: MEDIA, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY
Spectacles of Self(ie) Empowerment? Networked Individualism and the Logic of the (Post)Feminist Selfie - Stephen R. Barnard
You’ve Been Catfished: An Analysis of Postemotionalism in “Reality” Television and Audience Response on Twitter - Apryl A. Williams
Cultures of Experimentation: Role-Playing Games and Sexual Identity - Ciaran Devlin and Anne Holohan
SECTION III: DIGITAL PUBLIC CULTURES
Twitter Sentiments: Pattern Recognition and Poll Prediction - Francis P. Barclay, C. Pichandy, Anusha Venkat and Sreedevi Sudhakaran
The Limits of Neoliberalism: How Writers and Editors Use Digital Technologies in the Literary Field - Matthew Clair
The Role of Mass Media in the Transmission of Culture - Julie B. Wiest
SECTION IV: METHODS FOR STUDYING MEDIA AND CULTURE
Virtual Tours: Enhancing Qualitative Methodology to Holistically Capture Youth Peer Cultures - Ana Campos-Holland, Brooke Dinsmore and Jasmine Kelekay
Sentiment Analysis of Polarizing Topics in Social Media: News Site Readers’ Comments on the Trayvon Martin Controversy - Gabe Ignatow, Nicholas Evangelopoulos and Konstantinos Zougris