1st Edition

Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life

By Jenny Kennedy Copyright 2020
    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 the need for a coherent and consistent framework of sharing in digital culture and explains what this framework might look like. With insightful descriptions, the book draws out the relationship of sharing to privacy and control, the labored strategies and boundaries of reciprocation, and our relationships with the technologies which mediate sharing practices.



     



    The volume is an essential read for researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students in Media and Communication, New Media, Sociology, Internet Studies, and Cultural Studies.

    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.