Jarrett, Kylie and Naji, Jeneen (2016) What Would Media Studies Do? Social Media Shakespeare as a Technosocial Process. Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, 10 (1). ISSN 1554-6985
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Abstract
This essay explores the topic of social media Shakespeare from the perspective of Media Studies,
identifying directions for future research shaped by emerging approaches in this field. Drawing on a
range of posthuman, political economy, and cultural studies strands, it conceptualizes social media
Shakespearean texts as assemblages of interactions between technologies, human creative subjects, and
wider socioeconomic contexts. It proposes exploring memes, videos, tweets, or blog posts as instances
of technosocial communication that foreground the interplay of text, algorithms, and users. It argues
for moving beyond exploration of signification to understanding the unfixed, processual qualities of
these texts, including exploring them through the affective experiences of production and consumption.
It further advocates for extending concepts of remediation or adaptation to encompass the cyclical,
embodied, and dynamic processes of digital media. This, it argues, is what Media Studies would do to
analyze social media's Shakespeares.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Media Studies; Social Media Shakespeare; Technosocial Process; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > Media Studies |
Item ID: | 7626 |
Depositing User: | Kylie Jarrett |
Date Deposited: | 17 Nov 2016 15:12 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation |
Publisher: | Borrowers and Lenders. University of Georgia |
Refereed: | Yes |
Related URLs: | |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/7626 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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