{"product_id":"mediated-interfaces-9781501391156","title":"Mediated Interfaces","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Warfield \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eSocial Media + Society, Feminist Media Studies, Language and Literacy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFeminist Issues,\u003c\/i\u003e 6th ed. \u003cb\u003eCrystal Abidin\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cb\u003eCarolina Cambre\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Education at Concordia University, Canada. Her interests include the politics of communication, the issue of representation, critical policy analysis \u0026amp; critical visual sociology and anthropology, all with an eye to social justice issues as well as community and identity broadly speaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings together powerful essays by both established and emerging researchers of digital media, corporeality and embodiment. International and interdisciplinary in scope, \u003ci\u003eMediated Interfaces\u003c\/i\u003e works through the political, cultural and social ways we can begin to understand how bodies are represented online, how our sense of embodiment is now shaped in conjunction with our digital experiences and how digital media intersects with the politicisation of gendered, raced, sexualised and aged bodies. From naked bodies online to the body of the child as a gaming influencer, this collection covers the broadest range of approaches to thinking through our new digital corporealities. Warfield, Cambre and Abidin have provided us with a thoughtful arrangement of original work that will help us navigate the growing scholarship on bodies and social media. For scholars, students and the public who wish to make sense of new ways in which we can think about bodies and media in the 2020s, this should be the first stop and will provide the best possible roadmap for an increasingly complex scholarly terrain. * Rob Cover, Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University, Australia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMediated Interfaces\u003c\/i\u003e presents key concepts from some of the most innovative social media researchers working today. With its truly international, interdisciplinary, and multi-platform scope, this curated collection reaffirms the importance of the body as a site of analysis for understanding digital practices. In clear and accessible prose, this volume’s contributors recognize the complexities of embodied technological performances on sites that run the gamut from BaiduBBS to YouTube. As they curate a wide variety of scholarly voices, the editors have created a rich interpretive apparatus with which to question naïve assumptions about how bodies are constituted as essential entities, metaphysical beings, tool users, or media interfaces. Anyone interested in the politics, material conditions, or affective investments of social media should consider this book required reading. * Elizabeth Losh, Gale and Steve Kohlhagen Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies, College of William \u0026amp; Mary, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis edited collection presents a wealth of insights into diverse social histories and digitally-mediated practices. The chapters draw a bow of emerging social practices across different ways of reading the body becoming in social media.  The book is at times feisty, conceptual and diverse, offering crunchy nuggets for the contemplative reader. You will not be left empty handed. * Alexia Maddox, Lecturer in Communications, Deakin University, Australia *\u003cbr\u003eCombining the theoretical with the ethnographic, the serious and the playful, the multi-disciplinary and the multi-sited, \u003ci\u003eMediated Interfaces \u003c\/i\u003etakes us on an exciting journey into digital lives and affective relations with social media technologies, which are as embodied as they are political. * Adi Kuntsman, Lecturer in Digital Media, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *\u003cbr\u003eAccessibly written with a playful yet serious tone that allows the thinking through of the multiple kinds of “inter”faces that we encounter in contemporary daily life. The socio-political implications are engaged effectively in this quick overview of how mediated interfaces are “smart objects” are “automated connections between everyday physical objects to the Internet.” This book is a must for anyone researching online social media or contemporary youth and media or most anything to do with media. Kudos to the authors! * Radhika Gajjala, Professor of American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart One: The Body  Mediated\u003c\/b\u003e 1. ‘Find love in Canada’: Distributed selves, abstraction, and the problem of privacy and autonomy \u003ci\u003eVincent Miller, University of Kent, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  2. Embodied Verification: Linking Identities and Bodies on NSFW Reddit \u003ci\u003eEmily van der Nagel, Monash University, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e  3. #ILYSM*: Instagram as Fan Practice, Hattie Liew,  \u003ci\u003eNational University of Singapore, Singapore\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Ethan’s Golden YouTube Play Button: The evolution of a child influencer \u003ci\u003eCarolina Cambre and Maha Abdul Ghani, Concordia University, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart Two: The Body Politicized\u003c\/b\u003e 5. Performing Visibility: Representing the Palestinian Freedom Riders through Non-Violent Protest and Visual Activism \u003ci\u003eGary Bratchford, University of Central Lancashire, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  6. #WhoNeedsFeminism? Mapping Leaky, Networked Affective Feminist Resistance \u003ci\u003eJessica Ringrose, UCL London, UK and Kaity Mendes, University of Leicester, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  7. ‘Smart is the \u003ci\u003eNü (boshi)\u003c\/i\u003e Sexy’: How China’s PhD women are fighting stereotypes using social media \u003ci\u003eJing Zeng, IKMZ Zurich, Switzerland\u003c\/i\u003e  8. Online Ajumma: Self-presentations of contemporary elderly women via digital media in Korea \u003ci\u003eJung Moon, Seoul Women's University, South Korea and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrystal Abidin, Curtin University, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart Three: The Body Felt\u003c\/b\u003e 9. Naked and Unafraid: Nudity in Reclaiming Witchcraft Rituals \u003ci\u003eEmma Quilty, University of Newcastle, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e  10. “It’s like a rush of ‘man’ feeling”: Analyzing sexuality and felt-sense in men’s digital media communications \u003ci\u003eKaye Hare, University of British Columbia, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e  11. Agential hysterias: a practice approach to embodiment on social media \u003ci\u003eKatrin Tiidenberg, Lea Muldtofte, and Ane Katherine Gammelby, Talinn University, Estonia\u003c\/i\u003e  12. Picture Me Naked. Embodying Images On Screen and Off  \u003ci\u003eTobias Bol, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany\u003c\/i\u003e  Work Cited List of Contributors Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040886325591,"sku":"9781501391156","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501391156.jpg?v=1750948176","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mediated-interfaces-9781501391156","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}