Produsing Theory in a Digital World 3.0 : The Intersection of Audiences and Production in Contemporary Theory – Volume 3

Continuing the explorations begun in the first two __Produsing Theory__ volumes, this book investigates some of the tensions generated in the spaces enabled by the confluence of the formerly disparate activities of producing and consuming media. Multiple and varied theories―some still emerging―are invoked in attempts to illuminate the spaces between what previously had been neatly-separated components of media systems. This book is useful in a number of courses such as media culture and theory, introduction to new media, the Internet and the audience, new media theory and research, mass communication theory, emerging media, critical analysis and new media, concepts of new media, new media participants, new media in a democratic society, critical studies in new media, new media and social media, digital media studies, participatory media, media audiences in a digital world, digital cultures and social media, Web culture and new media studies, introduction to new media, new media and society, and more. Cover Contents Acknowledgments 1. Produsing Theory in a Digital World: Minding the Gap (Rebecca Ann Lind) 2. “With and between you all”: Celebrity Status, User-Audience Networks, and Representative Claims in Emma Watson’s Feminist Politics (Ellen Watts / Andrew Chadwick) 3. L8r H8r: Commoditized Privacy, Influencer Wars, and Productive Disorder in the Influencer Industry (Crystal Abidin) 4. Production and Performance of White Anti-Racism in Online Media (Michael Potts) 5. Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing of #BlackLivesMatter Publics during the 2016 US Presidential Election (Sharon Meraz) 6. The Potential of Social Media Groups to Afford Users a Voice (James Ngetha Gachau) 7. “Glamorous factories of unpredictable freedom”: Care, Coalition, and Hacking Hacking (Christina Dunbar-Hester) 8. Religious Influencers: Faith in the World of Marketing (Mara Einstein) 9. Audiences, Affects, Attachments: Theorizing Textual Approaches to Digital Culture (Akane Kanai) 10. Discourse-Analytical Studies on Social Media Platforms: A Data-Driven Mixed-Methods Approach (Ehsan Dehghan / Axel Bruns / Peta Mitchell / Brenda Moon) 11. The Hyperperception Model: How Observing Others on Social Media Can Affect People in Close Relationships (Erin L. Spottswood / Christopher J. Carpenter) 12. Proposing a Model of Social Media Use and Well-Being (Marina Krcmar / Drew P. Cingel / Yifan Zhao / Lauren Taylor) 13. Audiences Assemble: Becoming an Audience and Produser in Mixed Media Environments (Annette Hill) 14. Coordination, Continuity, Configuration: Toward a Mattering Framework for Human-Machine Produsing (Jaime Banks) 15. Afterword: The Legitimacy of Produsage (Robert W. Gehl) Contributors Index Series Page "The netted human we may call Homo Irretitus resides in a space made possible by technologies frequently referred to as new media, social media, emerging media, and Web 2.0. Traditional conceptualizations of audiences and producers are shifting, so the very making of our social practices, spaces, and contexts in this brave new world of the World Wide Web, the work of Homo Irretitus in this intersectional space, must be interrogated. If we are to understand this space, we should approach it from varied vantage points. This book gathers scholars from both within and external to the core of new media studies, each of whom applies a unique theoretical perspective to the intersection of audience and production in the space enabled by emerging communications technologies. In doing so they help shed light on a variety of the tensions evident in the new digital spaces in which we create and recreate (and often produse) so much of our lives, our identities, and our selves. Focusing multiple spotlights on the intersection of audiences and production made possible by social software helps make clearer a more nuanced perspective than would otherwise be possible as well as opening up questions for further debate within the field"--Publisher description of volume 1