Selfies are suddenly ubiquitous. In declaring selfie Oxford Dictionaries' 2013 Word of the
Year, Editorial Director Judy Pearsall explained that their big data analyses of English words …

Filtered faces are some of the most heavily engaged photos on social media. The vast
majority of literature on selfies have focused on self-reported practices of creating and …

Abstract Dobson, Carah and Robards theorise digital intimate publics as spaces of power
contestation where the public and private intermingle. They draw on queer and feminist …

Two billion people around the world use Instagram, but so far social scientists have done
little research on the platform. Despite Instagram's reputation for shallowness, the ongoing …

For a long time, accounts of media and cultural production have used the encoding and
decoding of meaning as a basic conceptual schema. This schema places the many …

This book examines selfies as a relational and processual networked social practice,
performed between people within digital contexts and that involve online/offline intersections …

This special issue coedited by Gaby David and Amparo Lasén, compiles 13 articles that
explore the articulation of contemporary affective and digital cultures, regarding shame and …

Nina Freeman's 2015 videogame Cibele recounts its creator's experience of falling in love
with a fellow player of an online game. An interactive autobiography about a young woman …

Making sense of interaction in digital spaces is one of the key challenges for contemporary
sociology. Our paper makes a contribution to the sociological theorization of social media. It …

The new forms of online communication and the constant connectivity influence the way the
body is perceived and represented with its limits and its new extensions; even the …