Youth Mediations and Affective Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Open-Ended and Curious Explorations of Youth Mediations and Affective Relations

   • Susan Driver, Natalie Coulter

   Pages 1-13

3. “I Am Crying…This Really Touched My Heart”: Disabled Intimacy and the Thick Materiality of the Virtual

   • Anastasia Todd

   Pages 15-31

4. Decolonizing Technology: Presence, Caring, Sharing, and Orality Within the Indigenous Friends Mobile App

   • Alejandro MayoralBaños

   Pages 33-51

5. Becoming More Than a Self: Affective Relations and Queer Selfie Lines of Flight

   • Susan Driver

   Pages 53-71

6. Vlogging the Hijab: Subjectivity, Affect and Materiality

   • Shazlin Rahman

   Pages 73-88

7. “#YouTuberAnxiety: Anxiety as Emotional Labour and Masquerade in Beauty Vlogs”

   • Sophie Bishop

   Pages 89-105

8. My Moshi Monster Is “Desolate”: Digital Games and Affect in Neoliberal Capitalism

   • Natalie Coulter

   Pages 107-118

9. Queer Girls and Mashups: Archiving Ephemerality

   • Whitney Monaghan

   Pages 119-135

10. The Queer Potential of World of Warcraft: Shame and Desire in the Performance of Gender in Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games

    • Johanna Luanne Fraser

    Pages 137-154

11. The Post and the Grab: Instagram Memes and Affective Labour

    • Eileen Mary Holowka

    Pages 155-174

12. “Filleing” the Cinema Gap: The Precarity of Toronto’s Necessary Emerging Network of Feminist Film Critics

    • Claudia Sicondolfo

    Pages 175-195

13. Making a Name for Yourself: Neo-identities and Tumblr

    • Christine Feraday

    Pages 197-212

14. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Tumblr Publics, John Green, and Sanctionable Girlhood

    • Morgan Bimm

    Pages 213-231

Youth Mediations and Affective Relations explores dynamic and expansive possibilities of young people’s affective lives as they engage with diverse social media in prolific and specific ways. It addresses the situated embodied and emotional experiences of young people as they actively use media in order to forge communities, play imaginatively, protest injustice, experiment with their identities, make media or explore friendships. Furthermore, it explores the relational and contextual dimensions of their everyday interactions. Against static knowledge and moral panics that abstract youth from the complex and changing worlds in which they grapple with digital media, this book hones in on the layered textures of youth experiences to consider how today’s youth think and feel in subtle and unexpected ways. 

• Youth media
• Moblie apps
• Affective relations
• Affect
• Network
• Teenagers
• Tweens
• Vlogging

• York University, Toronto, Canada

  Susan Driver, Natalie Coulter

Susan Driver is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies at York University, Canada. Her previous books include Queer Girls and Popular Culture (Peter Lang, 2007) and Queer Youth Cultures (SUNY Press, 2008).


Natalie Coulter is an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at York University, Canada. She co-edited Locating the Tween Girl, a special issue of Girlhood Studies in 2018, and she is the author of Tweening the Girl (Peter Lang, 2014). 

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