Mediated Interfaces

Katie Warfield is a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada, and Director of the Visual Media Workshop. Her recent writings have appeared in Social Media + Society, Feminist Media Studies, Language and Literacy, and Feminist Issues, 6th ed. Crystal Abidin is Postdoctoral Fellow with the Media Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC) at Jönköping University, Sweden, Researcher with Handelsrådet (Swedish Retail and Wholesale Development Council), and Adjunct Researcher with the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) at Curtin University, Australia. Carolina Cambre is Assistant Professor of Education at Concordia University, Canada. Her interests include the politics of communication, the issue of representation, critical policy analysis & critical visual sociology and anthropology, all with an eye to social justice issues as well as community and identity broadly speaking.

This book brings together powerful essays by both established and emerging researchers of digital media, corporeality and embodiment. International and interdisciplinary in scope, Mediated Interfaces works through the political, cultural and social ways we can begin to understand how bodies are represented online, how our sense of embodiment is now shaped in conjunction with our digital experiences and how digital media intersects with the politicisation of gendered, raced, sexualised and aged bodies. From naked bodies online to the body of the child as a gaming influencer, this collection covers the broadest range of approaches to thinking through our new digital corporealities. Warfield, Cambre and Abidin have provided us with a thoughtful arrangement of original work that will help us navigate the growing scholarship on bodies and social media. For scholars, students and the public who wish to make sense of new ways in which we can think about bodies and media in the 2020s, this should be the first stop and will provide the best possible roadmap for an increasingly complex scholarly terrain.

• IntroductionPart One: The Body Mediated1. 'Find love in Canada': Distributed selves, abstraction, and the problem of privacy and autonomyVincent Miller, University of Kent, UK2. Embodied Verification: Linking Identities and Bodies on NSFW RedditEmily van der Nagel, Monash University, Australia3. #ILYSM*: Instagram as Fan Practice, Hattie Liew, National University of Singapore, Singapore4. Ethan's Golden YouTube Play Button: The evolution of a child influencerCarolina Cambre and Maha Abdul Ghani, Concordia University, CanadaPart Two: The Body Politicized5. Performing Visibility: Representing the Palestinian Freedom Riders through Non-Violent Protest and Visual ActivismGary Bratchford, University of Central Lancashire, UK6. #WhoNeedsFeminism? Mapping Leaky, Networked Affective Feminist ResistanceJessica Ringrose, UCL London, UK and Kaity Mendes, University of Leicester, UK7. 'Smart is the Nü (boshi) Sexy': How China's PhD women are fighting stereotypes using social mediaJing Zeng, IKMZ Zurich, Switzerland8. Online Ajumma: Self-presentations of contemporary elderly women via digital media in KoreaJung Moon, Seoul Women's University, South Korea and Crystal Abidin, Curtin University, AustraliaPart Three: The Body Felt9. Naked and Unafraid: Nudity in Reclaiming Witchcraft RitualsEmma Quilty, University of Newcastle, Australia10. “It's like a rush of 'man' feeling”: Analyzing sexuality and felt-sense in men's digital media communicationsKaye Hare, University of British Columbia, Canada11. Agential hysterias: a practice approach to embodiment on social mediaKatrin Tiidenberg, Lea Muldtofte, and Ane Katherine Gammelby, Talinn University, Estonia12. Picture Me Naked. Embodying Images On Screen and Off Tobias Bol, Johannes Gutenberg University, GermanyWork CitedList of ContributorsIndex