Full Description
Sponsored by the Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association, this volume examines wide-ranging aspects of culture, communication, and [new] media broadly defined. Themes include the interplay between [new] media and any of the following: culture, communication, technology, convergence, the arts, cultural production, and cultural change in the digital age. Contributions shed light on emergent phenomena that -sociologists, particularly those studying media or communication, culture scholars will find intriguing.
Contents
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
