Jessica Maddox

The Internet Is for Cats

How Animal Images Shape Our Digital Lives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this important and engaging book, Jessica Maddox provides a social framework for thinking about an outrageously popular cultural phenomenon: pets and animals online. She examines how these images help make digital spaces lighthearted and fun, as well as how these images function as relieving distractions from other aspects of life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 140mm x 216mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781978827912
• ISBN-10: 1978827911
• Artikelnr.: 63565514

Autorenporträt

JESSICA MADDOX is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of Illustrations Introduction    1          Kittens in Context                     2         
I
ve Heard People on TikTok Love This": Attention as Materiality and Looking Relation      3          Beyond Doomscrolling in an Internet of Cute           4         
You Can
t Buy Happiness, But You Can Rescue It
: Neoliberal Pets and Animals  5          Feels Good, Man: Collisions, Collusions, and Cloaks in Pet and Animal Social Media       6          Nature is Healing, We are the Virus: Beyond Signifiers                                                       Appendix Acknowledgments Bibliography   Index