Mapping selfies and memes as Touch
This book offers a rich and nuanced analysis of digitally networked socialities as culturally meaningful relationships of Touch. Focusing on the ways Touch is practised in everyday social interactions serves as a basis for understanding how Touch is multiply significant – physically, emotionally, intellectually and politically. Fiona Andreallo initiates a map of the fundamentals of Touch and how they can be considered for future research in considering digitally networked cultures. This map also serves as a basis for closely examining selfies and memes.
الكلمات المفتاحية: Literature / Cultural and Media Studies / Social Media / Visual Culture / Internet Studies / Popular Culture / Selfies / Memes / Social media / Semiotics / Communication through touch / Photography / Visual communication / Social Semiotics / Digital intimacies / Human-technology relationships
