7. Digital Lives

Sales, N (2020) ‘No thanks, guys, we don’t want to quarantine and chill’, The Guardian.

Definitions

Books on the General Topic

Research Monographs

Contemporary Articles

Barnwell, A, Barbosa Neves, B & Ravn S (2021) ‘Captured and captioned: Representing family life on Instagram’, New Media & Society: 1-22, doi:14614448211012791.

Bauman, Z (2003) Liquid Love: On the frailty of human bonds, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Castells, M (2012) Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social movements in the Internet age, Cambridge, UK: Polity.

Davis, J, Love, T & Killen, G (2018) ‘Seriously funny: The political work of humor on social media’, New Media & Society, 20(10): 3898–3916.

Ellison, N and Boyd, D (2013) ‘Sociality through Social Network Sites’ in WH Dutton (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 151- 172.

Kanai, A (2016) ‘Sociality and Classification: Reading gender, race and class in a humorous meme’, Social Media + Society, 2(4): 1-12.

Kanai, A (2017) ‘The best friend, the boyfriend, other girls, hot guys, and creeps: the relational production of self on Tumblr’, Feminist Media Studies. 17(6): 911- 925.


Kanai, A (2017) ‘Girlfriendship and Sameness: affective belonging in a digital intimate public’, Journal of Gender Studies, 26: 293-306.

Lincoln S, & Robards, B (2017) ‘Editing the project of the self: sustained Facebook use and growing up online’, Journal of Youth Studies, 20(4): 518-531.

Neves, BB et al. (2015) ‘The ‘Non-aligned’: Young People’s Narratives of Rejection of Social Networking Sites’, Young, 23(2): 116-135.

Nilan, P (2008) ‘Muslim media and youth in Southeast Asia’ in Y Kim (ed) Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia, London: Routledge, 45-58.


Rainie, H & Wellman, B (2012) Networked: The new social operating system,Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ringrose, J (2008) ‘“Just be Friends”: Exposing the limits of educational bully discourses for understanding teen girls’ heterosexualized friendships and conflicts’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 29(5): 509-522.

Robards, B (2010) ‘Randoms in my bedroom: Negotiating privacy and unsolicited contact on social network sites’, Prism, 7 (3): 1-12.

Robards, B (2013) ‘Leaving MySpace, joining Facebook: “Growing up” on social network sites’, Continuum, 26 (3): 385-398.

Sharp, M and Shannon, B (2020) ‘Becoming Non-Binary: Gender work in Tumblr’ in N Farris et al. (Eds) Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Digital Age, Springer, USA, 137-150.

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