Youth Mediations and Affective Relations

Susan Driver is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies at York University, Canada. Her previous books include Queer Girls and Popular Culture (Peter Lang, 2007) and Queer Youth Cultures (SUNY Press, 2008).Natalie Coulter is an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at York University, Canada. She co-edited Locating the Tween Girl, a special issue of Girlhood Studies in 2018, and she is the author of Tweening the Girl (Peter Lang, 2014).

• Introduction: Open-ended and Curious Explorations of Youth Mediations and Affective Relations.- Chapter 1: I Am Crying…This Really Touched My Heart”: Disabled Intimacy and the Thick Materiality of the Virtual.- Chapter 2: Decolonizing Technology: Presence, Caring, Sharing, And Orality Within the Indigenous Friends Mobile App.- Chapter 3: Becoming More Than a Self:  Affective Relations and Queer Selfie Lines of Flight.- Chapter 4:  Vlogging the Hijab:  Subjectivity, Affect and Materiality.- Chapter 5:  #YouTuberAnxiety: Anxiety as Emotional Labour and Masquerade in Beauty Vlogs.- Chapter 6: My Moshi Monster is “Desolate”:  Digital Games and Affect in Neoliberal Capitalism.- Chapter 7: Queer Girls and Mashups: Archiving Ephemerality.- Chapter 8: The Queer Potential of World of Warcraft: Shame and Desire in the Performance of Gender in Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games.- Chapter 9: The Post and the Grab:Instagram Memes and Affective Labour.- Chapter 10:  ‘Filleing’ the Cinema Gap: The Precarity of Toronto’s Necessary Emerging Network of Feminist Film Critics.- Chapter 11:  Making a Name for Yourself: Neo-Identities and Tumblr.- Chapter 12: This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Tumblr Publics, John Green, and Sanctionable Girlhood.