Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life

Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life provides nuanced accounts of the processes of sharing in digital culture and the complexities that arise in them. The book explores definitions of sharing, and the roles that our digital devices and the platforms we use play in these practices.

List of contents

Introduction

Section one

Chapter one: Pervasive narratives of sharing in digital culture

Chapter two: Theories of sharing

Chapter three: Practice-centred approaches to sharing

Section two

Chapter four: Boundaries of disclosure

Chapter five: Reciprocity and other labours

Chapter six: Intimate technologies

About the author

Jenny Kennedy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RMIT, Melbourne. She is a core member of the Digital Ethnography Research centre (DERC). Jenny's research interests cover media practices in everyday life, social discourses around technology use, and material culture, especially in domestic contexts.

Summary

Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life provides nuanced accounts of the processes of sharing in digital culture and the complexities that arise in them. The book explores definitions of sharing, and the roles that our digital devices and the platforms we use play in these practices.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Kennedy, Jenny (Rmit University Kennedy, Kennedy Jenny
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781032176802
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3217680-2
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, COMPUTERS / Internet / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Humanities, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects