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      The Promiscuity of Network Culture
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      The Promiscuity of Network Culture

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      Queer Theory and Digital Media

      The Promiscuity of Network Culture

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      The Promiscuity of Network Culture book

      Queer Theory and Digital Media
      ByRobert Payne
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 16 December 2014
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315746050
      Pages 168
      eBook ISBN 9781315746050
      Subjects Humanities, Social Sciences
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      Payne, R. (2014). The Promiscuity of Network Culture: Queer Theory and Digital Media (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315746050

      ABSTRACT

      Liking, sharing, friending, going viral: what would it mean to recognize these current modes of media interaction as promiscuous? In a contemporary network culture characterized by a proliferation of new forms of intimate mediated sociality, this book argues that promiscuity is a new standard of user engagement. Intimate relations among media users and between users and their media are increasingly structured by an entrepreneurial logic and put to work for the economic interests of media corporations. But these multiple intimacies can also be understood as technologies of promiscuous desire serving both to liberalize mediated social connection and to contain it within normative frames of value. Payne brings crucial questions of gender, sexuality, intimacy, and attention back into conversation with recent thinking on network culture and social media, identifying the queer undercurrents of these current media dynamics.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |18 pages

      Introduction

      “Are We Sluts?”

      chapter 1|22 pages

      Virality Minus the Virus

      chapter 2|22 pages

      Frictionless Sharing

      chapter 3|30 pages

      Media Whore

      chapter 4|26 pages

      Index Case

      chapter 5|27 pages

      Contagious Acts

      chapter |7 pages

      Conclusion

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