Communication and Information Technologies Annual : [New] Media Cultures.

Front Cover -- Communication and Information Technologies Annual -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Editorial Board -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Volume 11 -- Section I: Communicative Cultures -- Section II: Media, Culture, and Identity -- Section III: Digital Public Cultures -- Section IV: Methods for Studying Media and Culture -- Section I. Communicative Cultures -- On Violating One's Own Privacy: N-adic Utterances and Inadvertent Disclosures in Online Venues -- Introduction -- Blog Interaction, Multiple Audiences, and Language -- How a Shared Indexical Ground Is Signaled Using Deictics -- Data and Methods -- How Awareness of Audiences Shifts Online Disclosures -- Orienting toward an Uncertain Audience -- Orienting toward the Chorus -- Orienting toward Influential Outsiders -- Adjustments to the Content of the Posts and the Technical Interface -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Couples' Use of Technology in Maintaining Relationships -- Introduction -- Previous Research -- Personal Relationships and Technology -- Relationship Maintenance in the Digital Age -- Data and Methods -- Findings -- Patterns of Communication -- Technology Use in Relationship Maintenance -- Positivity -- Understanding -- Relationship Talk and Self-Disclosure -- Assurances -- Sharing Tasks -- Social Networks -- Communication Coordination -- Explaining Patterns of Maintenance Behaviors -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Interview Methodology -- Section II. Media, Culture, and Identity -- Spectacles of Self(ie) Empowerment? Networked Individualism and the Logic of the (Post)Feminist Selfie -- Introduction -- The Medium and Its (Mixed) Messages -- Ideological Underpinnings: (Networked) Individualism and Post-Feminism -- The Empowered Post-Feminist Selfie?.

Case study: The "Perfect" Body? False Representations Yield Revealing Realizations -- Case Study: #Freethenipple, Sex Positivity, and Dress Code Sexism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- You've Been Catfished: An Analysis of Postemotionalism in "Reality" Television and Audience Response on Twitter -- Introduction -- "Catfish: The TV Show" -- Postemotional Society and Reality Television in the Digital Age -- Identity Management in the Digital Age: The Case of Catfish -- Method -- Step 1 -- Step 2 -- Case Study|Catfish the TV Show: Season 2, episode 7 -- Audience Response on Twitter -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Cultures of Experimentation: Role-Playing Games and Sexual Identity -- Introduction -- Background -- Sexualities in Video Games -- Case Study: Dragon Age -- Masculinities -- Methodology -- Ethical Considerations -- Findings -- To Role-Play or Not to Role-Play, That Is the Question -- The 'Disinhibition Effect' and the 'Proteus Effect' -- Inclusivity -- Comfort with LGBT Content -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Section III. Digital Public Cultures -- Twitter Sentiments: Pattern Recognition and Poll Prediction -- Introduction -- Tweets and Votes -- Research Design -- Scoring Guidelines for Polarity (Sentiment Analysis) -- Validity and Reliability -- Scope and Limitations -- Findings -- Discussion -- Implications and Limitations -- Conclusion -- References -- The Limits of Neoliberalism: How Writers and Editors Use Digital Technologies in the Literary Field -- Introduction -- New Forms of Capitalism -- The Cultural Logics of Neoliberalism -- Digital Technologies and Neoliberalism in the Literary Field -- Methods -- Data -- Analysis -- Findings -- Entrepreneurship -- Market-Faith -- Profit-Maximization -- Efficiency -- Individualism -- Field Dynamics: Positions, Organizations, and Exhaustion -- Discussion -- Notes.

Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- The Role of Mass Media in the Transmission of Culture -- How Culture "Works" -- The Role of Mass Media -- The Media Model of Culture -- Application: Serial Murder in U.S. Culture -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Section IV. Methods for Studying Media and Culture -- Virtual Tours: Enhancing Qualitative Methodology to Holistically Capture Youth Peer Cultures -- Background -- Youth Peer Cultures -- Virtual and "Go-Along" Qualitative Methodologies -- Virtual Qualitative Methodology -- The "Go-Along" Interview -- Studies of Social Media and Children's Geographies -- Methodologies in Studies of Social Media -- Methodologies in Studies of Children's Geographies -- Virtual Tours -- Neighborhood Tour on Google Maps -- Setting Up -- Initial Challenges -- Touring Youth's Socio-Spatial Environments -- Social Media Tour across Networked Publics -- Setting Up -- Initial Challenges -- Touring Youth's Networked Publics -- Discussion -- Virtually Touring Youth Peer Cultures -- Qualitative Methodology at a Crossroads -- The Power of Interactive Images -- Access and Responsibility -- Complexities of Data Management and Analysis -- Social Inequalities and the Research Process -- Limitations and Possible Solutions -- Future Applications of the Virtual Tour -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Sentiment Analysis of Polarizing Topics in Social Media: News Site Readers' Comments on the Trayvon Martin Controversy -- Introduction -- Topic Sentiment Analysis -- Our TSA Model -- Latent Semantic Analysis -- Sentiment Analysis -- Mill's "Method of Difference" -- The "Outrage Industry" and High-Profile Commentators -- Data -- Analysis -- Latent Semantic Analysis -- Sentiment Analysis -- Correspondence Analysis -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- About the Editors.

This volume examines wide-ranging aspects of culture, communication, and [new] media broadly defined. Themes include the interplay between [new] media and any of the following: culture, communication, technology, convergence, the arts, cultural production, and cultural change in the digital age.

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