1st Edition

Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life

By Jenny Kennedy Copyright 2020
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life provides nuanced accounts of the processes of sharing in digital culture and the complexities that arise in them. The book explores definitions of sharing, and the roles that our digital devices and the platforms we use play in these practices.   Drawing upon practice theory to outline a theoretical framework of sharing practice, the book emphasizes... Read more

Introduction



Section one



Chapter one: Pervasive narratives of sharing in digital culture



Chapter two: Theories of sharing



Chapter three: Practice-centred approaches to sharing



Section two



Chapter four: Boundaries of disclosure



Chapter five: Reciprocity and other labours



Chapter six: Intimate technologies

Biography

Jenny Kennedy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RMIT, Melbourne. She is a core member of the Digital Ethnography Research centre (DERC). Jenny's research interests cover media practices in everyday life, social discourses around technology use, and material culture, especially in domestic contexts.