Intimacy and Self-Abstraction: Radio as New Media in Aboriginal Australia

Fisher, Daniel

doi:10.1080/14735784.2013.818278

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“…), media ideology offers a narrowed focus on the material limits and possibilities of particular media technologies. The ideologies people hold about media reveal assumptions about how media work, such as which media index intimacy (Gershon 2010b; Fisher ), which lend themselves to authenticity (Eisenlohr ), and which are perceived to allow for directness (Kunreuther ) or engagement in the public sphere (Vidali ). Such assumptions about media are particularly evident when it comes to cellular phones (Dent ), as well as the myriad apps they carry.…”

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Being Real on Fake Instagram: Likes, Images, and Media Ideologies of Value

Ross

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article elucidates how some users of the app Instagram follow particular rules—shaped by the medium's material constraints and affordances as well as social norms and pressures—to get as many likes as possible. I demonstrate how my interlocutors, young adult women in the United States, strategize their Instagram usage with creative practices in an effort to successfully accrue likes. But the pressure to perform in such a way lead some of them to create secondary accounts called “fake Instagrams” where these rules could be broken and users believe they can be more authentic. I analyze the importance of likes to social media use and how this feature structures the media ideologies users hold. Demonstrating how users trade the value of likes in one mode of Instagram for the value of authenticity in another, I show that media ideologies and media switching—conventionally analyzed between media—occur within them as well. These ideologies determine how users project different selves within a single medium, selves which are in dialogue with one another on social media.

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Being Real on Fake Instagram: Likes, Images, and Media Ideologies of Value

Ross

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Language, The Internet, and Digital Communication

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2020

The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology

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Following the global proliferation of technologies of digital communication, linguistic anthropologists have investigated the associated signifying practices. Such practices intimately intertwine with sociotechnical systems: devices and programming architecture are designed to support particular communicative practices, and communicative practices are shaped by devices and architecture. Prominent linguistic anthropological approaches to digital communication include theories of literacy, media worlds, language ideology, and the ethnography of speaking paradigm. Linguistic anthropology's distinctive contributions in this area originate in its prioritizing language as an expressive resource and its commitment to a holistic ethnographic approach. In the future, in addition to tracking responses to technological changes, linguistic anthropologists will take up a number of overarching concerns, such as the role of corporate and state actors in digital communication and the increasing prevalence of machines as interlocutors and social actors.

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