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Keeping it raw on the ‘gram: Authenticity, relatability and digital intimacy in fitness cultures on Instagram:
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This article traces how enactments of ‘raw’ cultivate digital intimacies between Instagram users and takes up a feminist new materialist approach to consider how various body parts, objects, platform functionalities and discourses come together to create affective encounters between participants and other Instagram users.Abstract:
This article builds on a growing body of research on social media and authenticity through examining practices of ‘keeping it raw’ in fitness cultures on Instagram. Such practices include posting u...read more
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Book review : the posthuman
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A thousand plateaus : capitalism and schizophrenia
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Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter
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I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately: Twitter Users, Context Collapse, and the Imagined Audience
Alice E. Marwick,danah boyd +1 more
TL;DR: This article investigates how content producers navigate ‘imagined audiences’ on Twitter, talking with participants who have different types of followings to understand their techniques, including targeting different audiences, concealing subjects, and maintaining authenticity.
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Diana Coole,Samantha Frost +1 more
TL;DR: New Materialisms as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities, including a posthumanist conception of matter as lively or exhibiting agency, and a reengagement with both the material realities of everyday life and broader geopolitical and socioeconomic structures.