A Unified Theory Of Cats On The Internet
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A Unified Theory Of Cats On The Internet
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Author : E.J. White
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-21
A Unified Theory Of Cats On The Internet written by E.J. White and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-21 with Social Science categories.
This cultural history reveals how cats became the undisputed mascot of the internet—“an essential look at life online” (Ryan Milner, author of The World Made Meme). Journalists and their readers seem to need no explanation for the line, “The internet is made of cats.” Everyone understands the joke, but few know how it started. A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet is the first book to explore the history of how the cat became the internet’s best friend. Internet cats can differ in dramatic ways, from the goth cats of Twitter to the glamourpusses of Instagram to the giddy, nonsensical silliness of Nyan Cat. But they all share common traits and values. Bringing together fun anecdotes, thoughtful analyses, and hidden histories of the communities that built the internet, Elyse White shows how japonisme, punk culture, cute culture, and the battle among different communities for the soul of the internet informed the sensibility of online felines. Internet cats offer a playful and useful way to understand how culture shapes—and is shaped by—technology. Western culture has used cats for centuries as symbols of darkness, pathos, and alienation. The communities that helped build the internet represented themselves as outsiders, with snark and alienation at the core of their identity. Thus cats became the sine qua non of cultural literacy for the Extremely Online, as well as an everyday medium of expression for the rest of us. Whatever direction the internet takes next, the “series of tubes” is likely to remain cat-shaped.
The Internet Is For Cats
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Author : Jessica Maddox
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-14
The Internet Is For Cats written by Jessica Maddox and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-14 with Social Science categories.
LOL cats. Grumpy Cat. Dog-rating Twitter. Pet Instagram accounts. It’s generally understood the internet is for pictures of cute cats (and dogs, and otters, and pandas). But what motivates people to make and share these images, and how do they relate to other online social practices? The Internet is for Cats examines how animal images are employed to create a lighter, more playful mood, uniting users within online spaces that can otherwise easily become fractious and toxic. Placing today’s pet videos, photos, and memes within a longer history of mediated animal images, communication scholar Jessica Maddox also considers the factors that make them unique. She explores the roles that animals play within online economies of cuteness and attention, as well as the ways that animal memes and videos respond to common experiences of life under neoliberalism. Conducting a rich digital ethnography, Maddox combines observations and textual analysis with extensive interviews of the people who create, post and share animal media, including TikTok influencers seeking to make their pets famous, activists tweeting about wildlife conservation, and Redditors upvoting every cute cat photo. The Internet is for Cats will leave you with a new appreciation for the human social practices behind the animal images you encounter online.
Digital Feeling
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Author : Adrienne Evans
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-03
Digital Feeling written by Adrienne Evans and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-03 with Social Science categories.
This book offers a trailblazing account of postfeminist sensibility as a digital feeling that shapes how we understand the world around us. It explores how we feel in a world where the digital has become intertwined with our intimate relationships to ourselves and to others. The book develops a novel approach that draws on feminist theories of affect, emotion, and structures of feeling, to analyse the entanglements of the digital and the non-digital, and the public and the private, and to show how good feeling shapes a contemporary moment that often leads us back to normativity and reproduces systemic inequality. This is achieved through several different digital media spheres, including: the Instagram account Barbie Savior, #fitspo content, TikTok influencers and their Get Ready With Me videos, the archive of hot men on TubeCrush, and the intimacies of the internet cat, suggesting that each offers a snapshot of our current emotional landscapes.
Abstractions And Embodiments
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Author : Janet Abbate
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2022-08-30
Abstractions And Embodiments written by Janet Abbate and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-30 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations. Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different historical definitions of "humanness." They can serve both liberation and control because some people's freedom has historically been predicated on controlling others. Historians of computing return again and again to these contradictions, as they often reveal deeper structures. Using twin frameworks of abstraction and embodiment, a reformulation of the old mind-body dichotomy, this anthology examines how social relations are enacted in and through computing. The authors examining "Abstraction" revisit central concepts in computing, including "algorithm," "program," "clone," and "risk." In doing so, they demonstrate how the meanings of these terms reflect power relations and social identities. The section on "Embodiments" focuses on sensory aspects of using computers as well as the ways in which gender, race, and other identities have shaped the opportunities and embodied experiences of computer workers and users. Offering a rich and diverse set of studies in new areas, the book explores such disparate themes as disability, the influence of the punk movement, working mothers as technical innovators, and gaming behind the Iron Curtain. Abstractions and Embodiments reimagines computing history by questioning canonical interpretations, foregrounding new actors and contexts, and highlighting neglected aspects of computing as an embodied experience. It makes the profound case that both technology and the body are culturally shaped and that there can be no clear distinction between social, intellectual, and technical aspects of computing. Contributors: Janet Abbate, Marc Aidinoff, Troy Kaighin Astarte, Ekaterina Babinsteva, André Brock, Maarten Bullynck, Jiahui Chan, Gerardo Con Diaz, Liesbeth De Mol, Stephanie Dick, Kelcey Gibbons, Elyse Graham, Michael J. Halvorson, Mar Hicks, Scott Kushner, Xiaochang Li, Zachary Loeb, Lisa Nakamura, Tiffany Nichols, Laine Nooney, Elizabeth Petrick, Cierra Robson, Hallam Stevens, Jaroslav Švelch
Palgrave Handbook Of Critical Posthumanism
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Author : Stefan Herbrechter
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-11-28
Palgrave Handbook Of Critical Posthumanism written by Stefan Herbrechter and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. The book also traces the historical representations and understanding of posthumanism across time. Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as autobiography, games, art, film, museums, and topics such as climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism’s impact across disciplines and areas of study.
Griffinology
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Author : A. L. McClanan
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2024-06-05
Griffinology written by A. L. McClanan and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-05 with Social Science categories.
Feathered with illustrations, a deep dive into the meaning of this half-lion, half-bird creature over millennia of human history. Griffinology is a fascinating exploration of the mythical creature’s many depictions in human culture. Drawing on a wealth of historical and literary sources, this book shows how the griffin has captured the imagination of people for over five thousand years, representing power, transcendence, and even divinity. It explores the history and symbolism of griffins in art, from their appearances in ancient Egyptian magic wands to medieval bestiaries, and from medieval coats of arms to modern corporate logos. The use of the griffin as a symbol of power and protection is surveyed throughout history and into modern times, such as in the Harry Potter series. Beautifully illustrated, this book should appeal to all those interested in monsters, magic, and the mystical, as well as art and history.
Purrieties Of Language
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Author : Edith Podhovnik
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Purrieties Of Language written by Edith Podhovnik and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A fun entrance point to linguistics, this accessible book uses online cat discourse to introduce a wide range of concepts.
Humor 2 0
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Author : Salvatore Attardo
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2023-08-15
Humor 2 0 written by Salvatore Attardo and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with Humor categories.
The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. Included are also in-depth discussions of the humor in phenomena such as Dogecoin, the joke currency, and the use of humor by the alt-right. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged. Written by a well-known specialist in humor studies, the book is engaging and readable, but also based on extensive scholarship.
Language In Relation To A Unified Theory Of The Structure Of Human Behavior
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Author : Kenneth L. Pike
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2015-03-10
Language In Relation To A Unified Theory Of The Structure Of Human Behavior written by Kenneth L. Pike and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Cat Content
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Author : Elena Korowin
language : de
Publisher: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach
Release Date : 2024-03-14
Cat Content written by Elena Korowin and has been published by Verlag Klaus Wagenbach this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Kaum etwas wird in den Sozialen Medien so zuverlässig geliked und weiterverbreitet wie niedliche Katzenbilder. Allerdings sind Katzen nicht erst seit gestern »spirit animals« des Fortschritts. Vielmehr findet hier eine jahrtausendealte Kulturgeschichte ihre konsequente Fortsetzung. Memes, Videos und Blogs mit Katze erzählen viel über Menschen und ihre Bedürfnisse; das Tier spielt meist lediglich als Spiegel eine Rolle. Elena Korowin geht der Omnipräsenz der Katze in digitalen Räumen auf den Grund und zeigt, dass ein Internet ohne Katzen zwar möglich, aber sinnlos ist.