Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data

Johanssen, J. 2019. Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data. London Routledge.

TitlePsychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data
AuthorsJohanssen, J.
Abstract

Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture offers a comprehensive account of our contemporary media environment—digital culture and audiences in particular—by drawing on psychoanalysis and media studies frameworks. It provides an introduction to the psychoanalytic affect theories of Sigmund Freud and Didier Anzieu and applies them theoretically and methodologically in a number of case studies. Johanssen argues that digital media fundamentally shape our subjectivities on affective and unconscious levels, and he critically analyses phenomena such as television viewing, Twitter use, affective labour on social media, and data-mining.

KeywordsPsychoanalysis, audiences, reality telvision, social media, Freud, Anzieu, big data, data mining, affect, free association, qualitative interviews
Year2019
PublisherRoutledge
Publication dates
Published22 Oct 2018
Place of publicationLondon
SeriesRoutledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
ISBN9781138484443
9781351052061
Web address (URL)https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-Digital-Culture-Audiences-Social-Media-and-Big-Data/Johanssen/p/book/9781138484443

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