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The Internet is for cats : attention, affect, and animals in digital sociality / Jessica Maddox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maddox, Jessica, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social media--Psychological aspects.
- Social media.
- Pets--Social aspects.
- Pets.
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Internet.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Animals in mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "LOLCats. 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 how did this come to be, and how are images of pets and animals unique online social practices? In this important and engaging book, The Internet is for Cats, Jessica Maddox provides a social framework for thinking about an outrageously popular cultural phenomenon: pets and animals online. She examines how these images help make digital spaces lighthearted and fun, as well as how these images function as relieving distractions from other aspects of life. However, we cannot speak of relief or distractions without also discussing what we need relief and distractions from. Combining insights from cultural studies and Internet studies, as well as interviews, textual work, and observation, Maddox offers an entirely new approach to pets and animals on the Internet, arguing the Internet may be for cats, but the cats are also for social practices"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Kittens in Context
- "I've Heard People on TikTok Love This": Attention as Materiality and Looking Relation
- Beyond Doomscrolling in an Internet of Cute
- "You Can't Buy Happiness, But You Can Rescue It": Neoliberal Pets and Animals
- Feels Good, Man: Collisions, Collusions, and Cloaks in Pet and Animal Social Media
- Nature is Healing, We are the Virus: Beyond Signifiers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Maddox, Jessica The Internet Is for Cats
- ISBN:
- 9781978827943
- 1978827946
- 9781978827936
- 1978827938
- OCLC:
- 1344419324
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