Shows
Net NonsenseRawdogging flightsHave you ever rawdogged a flight? No? Us neither.
Digital detox + digital disconnection + opting out + digital refusal + a negative sociology of digital culture + fetishization of analog tech + men's culture podcasts + succession + big little media + lifestyle hacks instead of therapy (and a bit of #asmr)
With co-hosts Dr. Idil Galip and Erinne Paisley
Ways of seeing digital disconnection: A negative sociology of digital culture by Anne Kaun
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization by Urs Stäheli and Luise Stoltenberg
Men Are ‘...
2024-07-1522 minNet NonsenseGay Son or Thot Daughter?Would you rather have a gay son or thot daughter?
Viral videos + viral memes + misandry + misogyny + memetic subversion + BBL Drizzy + Black Twitter + Know Your Meme + TikTok Street Interviews + Postfeminism + Manic Pixie Dream girl + American digital cultural hegemony
With co-hosts Dr. Idil Galip and Erinne Paisley
Would You Rather Have a Gay Son or X - Know Your Meme Entry
Caught Between a Thot and a Hard Place - April D. Lundy
Postfeminist media culture: Elements of a sensibility - Rosalind Gill
2024-06-0524 minNet NonsenseWrap it up!SEASON 1 - FINAL EPISODE
the sociology of Spotify Wrapped + music listening practices + algorithmic intimacy + embarrassing anecdotes
With co-hosts Dr. Idil Galip and Erinne Paisley
Happy New Year!
Folk theories of algorithmic recommendations on Spotify: Enacting data assemblages in the global South - Ignacio Siles et al.
Platforms and Cultural Production - Thomas Poell, David Nieborg, and Brooke Erin Duffy
“Just the Way You Are”: Linking Music Listening on Spotify and Personality - Ian Anderson et al.
2023-12-3142 minNet NonsenseLads Lads LadsPint, ChitChat, and Good People TikTok + Fitzroy Garage Party + Four Lads in Jeans + Hierarchy of Masculinity + Homoerotic Gaze + Class and Subcultures + Cringe
With co-hosts Dr. Idil Galip and Erinne Paisley
Dramaturgical Frontstage/Backstage - Erving Goffman
Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity - R.W. Connel and James W. Messerschmidt
Homoerotic Gaze - Patrick Schuckmann
Matt Rife and Homoerotic Gaze - Arden Rose
Cringe - Thomas J. Spiegel
2023-12-0838 minNet NonsenseShadowbanned?!?!?!Shadowbanning + algorithmic gossip/"algospeak" + human moderation of platforms + black boxing + Silicon Valley + California Ideology
With co-hosts Dr. Idil Galip and Erinne Paisley
Resources: Eye On Palestine Instagram Account
Academic articles:
Washington Post - How to Know When You're Shadow-banned
Tavi Gevinson - "algospeak"
Alice Marwick - Silicon Valley and the Social Media Industry
Tarleton Gillespie - Reduction as a Form of Content Moderation
Tarleton Gillespie - The Human Labor of Moderation
Lisa...
2023-11-1754 minNet NonsenseMy Sister Is an AI ChatbotMeta's AI Chatbot Billie (Kendall Jenner) + Chatbot History + Mediated Intimacy + Networked Individualism + Virtual Cheating + The Kardashians + Parasocial Relationships
With hosts Dr. Idil Galip + Erinne Paisley
Academic Articles:
Networked Individualism + AI (Petter Bae Brandtzaeg, Marita Skjuve, Asbjørn Følstad 2022)
Men Cheating with AI (EJ Dickson 2023)
Cheating and Parasocial Relationships (Amiee Adam 2019)
Parasocial Attachment in Adolescent Girls (Sarah E. Erickson + Sonya Dal Cin 2017)
Kardashians + Sisterhood (Alice Leppert 2015)
Zoella + Sisterhood (Rachel Berryman + Misha Kavka 2016)
2023-10-2636 minNet NonsenseCrispy Face FiltersTikTok Face Filters + Magic Mirrors + Digital-Forensic Gaze + the Male Gaze + Gender Performativity + "Daddy"
With hosts Dr. Idil Galip + Erinne Paisley
Academic Articles:
Folklore of Mirrors (Icy Sedgwick) - https://www.icysedgwick.com/mirrors-spells/
Symbolism of Mirrors (Carl B. Yoke) -
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43308332?typeAccessWorkflow=login
Digital-Forensic Gaze (Christine Lavrence and Carolina Cambre) - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305120955182
The Male Gaze (Laura Mulvey...
2023-10-1736 minNet NonsenseTube Girl GrotesqueTube Girl + Visibility + the Grotesque + Queer World Making
With hosts Dr. Idil Galip and Erinne Paisley
Academic Articles:
The Grotesque (Idil Galip) - https://www.academia.edu/51343880/The_Grotesque_in_Instagram_Memes
The Threat of Invisibility Online (Taina Bucher) - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444812440159
Algorithms of Oppression (Safiya Noble) - https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
Panopticism (Foucault) - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/252435/pdf
Queer Phenomenology (Sara...
2023-10-0441 minNet NonsenseF*ckboi FolkloreTalking Tabi Swiper + Digital Folklore + Heteropessimism + Post-Based Virality
With hosts Dr. Idil Galip and Erinne Paisley
Academic Articles:
Digital Folklore - https://www.academia.edu/37799928/Digital_folklore
Heteropessimism - https://thenewinquiry.com/on-heteropessimism/
Post-Based Virality - https://sciendo.com/article/10.5334/csci.140
2023-09-2238 min