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June 11, 2024
Playing with misinformation, lying with truth: satirical conspiracy theories and sacred seriousness of play in online imageboard cultures

Continuum (Published: 16th May 2024) ABSTRACT Knowingly re-circulated misinformation online is a widespread phenomenon that is increasingly met with suspicion or even condemnation in spite of the sharer’s intent. The article recasts misinformation sharing into cultural play practice questioning this sensibility. Drawing on Huizinga’s concept of play and the Lacanian notion of belief-through-other, it claims […]

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June 10, 2024
Between civic virtue and vice: Self-censorship of political views on social media among Norwegian young adults

Nordicom Review (Published: 12th Mar 2024) ABSTRACT While small groups leverage disproportionate visibility online, oftentimes resorting to hostile language, the use of social media for political expression by the majority of Norwegian users has been theorised in terms of lurking, inhibition, and self-restraint. Drawing from qualitative in-depth interviews with young adults of different political orientations […]

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June 10, 2024
Nudges, emojis, and memes: Mapping interpassivity theory onto digital civic culture

Communication & Democracy (Published online: 13 Sep 2023) ABSTRACT Once lauded for liberating audiences from their passive state by granting voice, the digital public sphere today increasingly resembles a cacophony of disjointed voices datafied for the gain of giant tech firms. Instead of bemoaning the co-optation of users’ activity, we might find it timely to […]

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March 24, 2021
The Ephemeral Character - Leonard Zelig

Cultural Intertexts (10/2020) ABSTRACT Although parallels between Kafka’s hybrid characters and Woody Allen’s Leonard Zelig have been noted in literature studies (Bruce 1998), the underlying interpretative synergy is not exhausted and occasions a revisit, timely in light of the social tensions of the century later present. Juxtaposing counterfactual history with actual highbrow commentary in the […]

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April 21, 2025
Krüger, S. Formative media: psychoanalysis and digital media platforms. Routledge

International Forum of Psychoanalysis (Published: April 2025) ABSTRACT Among a plethora of books on the subject, few grapple with the social media malaise in as bold yet nuanced a way as does Formative Media. Weaving together a vast array of media research with insiders’ accounts of social media corporate culture, Krüger champions psychoanalytical theories where […]

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April 21, 2025
Flisfeder, Matthew. 2021. Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media. Northwestern University Press.

Journal of Extreme Anthropology (Published: 21st September 2021) ABSTRACT Matthew Flisfeder’s recent contribution to literature on social media within psychoanalysis and critical theory is less a variation on the well-versed theme than an ingeniously crafted statement, deserving the praise and attention both by those within and outside of the field. Tying together Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxist […]

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