Jessica Maddox

The Internet Is for Cats

How Animal Images Shape Our Digital Lives

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Produktbeschreibung

An in-depth study of online animal photos, memes, and videos, The Internet is for Cats includes textual analysis and interviews with everyone from animal-loving Redditors to TikTok influencers seeking to make their pets famous. It will leave you with a new appreciation for the human social practices behind the animal images you encounter online.    

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781978827929
• ISBN-10: 197882792X
• Artikelnr.: 63563282

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