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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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