Convergence
Cinephilia, take three?: Availability, reliability, and disenchantment in the streaming era
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This article proposes a modified reading of Thomas Elsaesser’s theories of cinephilia, taking into account the new viewing practices established by the rise of online media streaming. Elsaesser characterised early film cult…
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Your money or your data: Avatar embodiment options in the identity economy
Convergence, Ahead of Print. In the physical world, choices about self-representation are tied to the body. However, avatar embodiment offers users many more options. These options are often constrained or promoted according to the economic models of t…
Convergence
Your money or your data: Avatar embodiment options in the identity economy
Convergence, Ahead of Print. In the physical world, choices about self-representation are tied to the body. However, avatar embodiment offers users many more options. These options are often constrained or promoted according to the economic models of t…
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Who cares about digital disconnection? Exploring commodified digital disconnection discourse through a relational lens
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Digital disconnection has risen as a new and necessary act of care that individuals perform to counter the burdens associated with 24/7 connectivity. Resources to perform such caring tasks, however, are known to be unequall…
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Who cares about digital disconnection? Exploring commodified digital disconnection discourse through a relational lens
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Digital disconnection has risen as a new and necessary act of care that individuals perform to counter the burdens associated with 24/7 connectivity. Resources to perform such caring tasks, however, are known to be unequall…
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Sick kids versus whom? Childhood disability and charitable campaigns on Instagram
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Platform media are changing the disability charity landscape. This paper employs a hybrid critical disability studies – platform media studies lens to explore the SickKids VS campaign, aiming to ‘fight’ childhood illness an…
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Invisible, aesthetic, and enrolled listeners across storytelling modalities: Immersive preference as situated player type
Convergence, Ahead of Print. Immersive storytelling includes narrative experiences that take place in the public spaces of theaters, theme parks, museums, and historical reenactment sites; on tabletops, where role-playing games are collaboratively play…
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Catering to the impatient digital listener: Accelerated composition patterns in popular music, 1986–2020
Convergence, Ahead of Print. The present study explored trends of compositional acceleration in top hit songs as a potential consequence of streaming platforms and digital habits of music consumption. Many media users have been shifting towards ‘Perman…
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Infinite media: The contemporary infinite paradigm in media
Convergence, Ahead of Print. This essay argues that the contemporary media paradigm is defined by an infinite character and scale that emerge from the confluence of infinite-prone economic, technological, and cultural logics. Thus, it discusses the eme…