the age of social media: a reading list
note: all hyperlinked texts are either open-access academic works or public-facing articles, & most other texts are accessible through various pdf-hosting websites.
books
the age of surveillance capitalism by shoshanna zuboff (2019)
the burnout society by byung-chul han, tr. erik butler (2015)
control: digitality as cultural logic by seb franklin (2015)
dark matters: on the surveillance of blackness by simone browne (2015)
the death algorithm and other digital dilemmas by roberto simanowski, tr. jefferson chase (2018)
the end of forgetting: growing up with social media by kate eichhorn (2019)
in the swarm: digital politics by byung-chul han, tr. erik butler (2012)
the politics of dating apps: gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in urban china by lik sam chan (2021)
the transparency society by byung-chul han, tr. erik butler (2015)
weaving the dark web: legitimacy on freenet, tor, and i2p by robert gehl (2018)
articles
ambivalent influencers: feeling rules and the affective practice of anxiety in social media influencer work by mari lehto (2021)
capitalism, patriarchy, slavery, and racism in the age of digital capitalism and digital labour by christian fuchs (2017)
children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives by rob horning (2010)
#dadtribe: performing sharenting labour to commercialise involved fatherhood by mario campana, astrid van den bossche, and bryoney miller (2020)
disintegrated bodies from cyborg microcelebrities to capital flow: a post-phenomenological investigation of disembodiment by riad salameh (2021)
the drama of metrics: status, spectacle, and resistance among youtube drama creators by angèle christin and rebecca lewis (2021)
#familygoals: family influencers, calibrated amateurism, and justifying young digital labor by crystal abidin (2017)
fragments on microcelebrity by rob horning (2012)
imagined affordances of instagram and the fantastical authenticity of female gulf-arab social media influencers by zoe hurley (2019)
improbable curators: analysing nostalgia, authorship and audience on tumblr microblogs by dinu gabriel munteanu (2017)
instagram use, instamums, and anxiety in mothers of young children by mara moujaes and diarmuid verrier (2020)
micromicrocelebrity: branding babies on the internet by crystal abidin (2015)
power through the algorithm? participatory web cultures and the technological unconscious by david beer (2009)
“running the numbers”: modes of microcelebrity labor in queer women’s self-representation on instagram and vine by stefanie duguay (2019)
selling brands while staying “authentic”: the professionalization of instagram influencers by loes van driel, delia dumitrica (2020)
seo and the disappearing self by rob horning (2010)
social media as masochism by rob horning (2016)
social media is not self-expression by rob horning (2012)
speaking to no one by rob horning (2017)
verbal venting in the social web: effects of anonymity and group norms on aggressive language use in online comments by leonie rösner and nicole c. krämer (2016)
vlogging parlance by sophie bishop (2018)
