Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures

ISBN-13: 9781509534395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Crystal (Curtin University) Abidin

Opis

"In the first book-length examination of Instagram, Leaver, Highfield and Abidin trace how this mobile photography app has developed as a platform and a culture. Rich with examples from across the world, from birth pictures to selfies at funerals, Instagram is essential reading for students and scholars of media and communication"--

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Platform Chapter Two: Aesthetics Chapter Three: Ecologies Chapter Four: Economies Chapter Five: Cultures Chapter Six: Lifespans Chapter Seven: From the Instagram of Everything to the Everything of Instagram Appendix: Instagram Timeline References Index

O autorze

Tama Leaver is Associate Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University. Tim Highfield is Assistant Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam. Crystal Abidin is a digital anthropologist and ethnographer of vernacular internet cultures. She researches young people's relationships with internet celebrity, self-curation, and vulnerability. Her books include Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online (2018), Microcelebrity Around the Globe: Approaches to Cultures of Internet Fame (2018, co-edited with Megan Lindsay Brown), and Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures (2019, with Tama Leaver and Tim Highfield). She is listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia (2018) and Pacific Standard 30 Top Thinkers Under 30 (2016). Crystal is Senior Research Fellow and DECRA Fellow in Internet Studies at Curtin University, Affiliate Researcher with the Media Management and Transformation Centre at Jönköping University, and Research Fellow with the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. Reach her at wishcrys.com.