Visual content is a critical component of everyday social media, on platforms explicitly
framed around the visual (Instagram and Vine), on those offering a mix of text and images in …

The animated Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a digital file format with a long history
within internet cultures and digital content. Emblematic of the early Web, the GIF fell from …

In this article, we challenge dominant perceptions of social media as an archive of endlessly
positive self-documentation by examining two subgenres of YouTube vlogging predicated …

In India, the practice of jugaad—finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems—emerged
out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now …

In a contemporary neoliberal landscape, young women are subject to intensified
requirements to demonstrate resilient individuality while also enacting a pleasing …

This paper pays attention to the immense and febrile field of digital image files which picture
the smart city as they circulate on the social media platform Twitter. The paper considers …

While many people remain hopeful that particular images of injustice will have the power to
catalyse progressive transformation, there is also widespread belief in the inevitability of …

Sharenting, or the practice of sharing one's parenting or information about one's children on
social media, occurs in an increasingly platformized digital culture, where visual formats are …

In Phase Media, James Ash theorizes how smart objects, understood as Internet-connected
and sensor-enabled devices, are altering users' experience of their environment. Rather …

This article is concerned with how the gendered, raced, and classed practices of readership
of a humorous meme on Tumblr organize forms of sociality and belonging along these lines …