The video-sharing social media platform TikTok has experienced a rapid rise in use since its
release in 2016. While its popularity is undeniable, at the first glance, it seems to offer …

As the digital becomes increasingly entwined within everyday life, ethnography's value as a
key methodological and analytical approach to understand the ways in which digital media …

Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses
and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual …

In this article, I combine theorizations of the selfie as an aesthetic and technological practice
of digital self-representation with a theatrical conception of spectatorship, inspired by Adam …

How can one 'see'the operationalization of contemporary visual culture, given the
imperceptibility and apparent automation of so many processes and dimensions of visuality …

Purpose To better understand the uptake of cosmetic procedures in the wake of Instagram,
this study aims to unravel how the aesthetic labour of influencers acts as the packaging of …

This article examines the growing entanglements between the digital and the world of food
while suggesting that food is a particularly generative space through which to understand …

Automating Vision explores the rise of seeing machines through four case studies: facial
recognition, drone vision, mobile and locative media and driverless cars. Proposing a …

This article develops a theory of selfies as reflexive practices of self‐coordination. Building
on pragmatist sociology of engagements, I conceptualize selfies as digital practices of …

Profiles in the widely used phenomenon of mobile online dating applications are
characteristically reduced to condensed information mostly containing one or a few pictures …