Last month Ego-Media’s Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Rob Gallagher joined celebrity studies scholars Oline Eaton and Hannah Yelin for a short symposium dedicated to the Kardashian clan and their impact on how we produce and consume life stories today (Hannah, as you’ll hear, was also joined by baby Arvo, who chips
Keeping Up with the Kardashian Decade
Podcast: An Archive of Tingles: ASMR Culture and Online Identity
‘Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response’ is a term that’s emerged from online health communities to describe a ‘tingling’ sensation certain people seem to experience in response to particular sensory stimuli and audiovisual cues. In recent years numerous ‘ASMRtists’ have begun using platforms like YouTube to circulate roleplays, readings and performances all
Tags: ASMR, podcast, social media, YouTube
Routine Quantification: Habit, Affect and Health
The third thematic discussion session of our international network meeting addressed the role of habit and repetition in online culture. Beginning by addressing ‘e-health’ and the quantified self, the discussion moved to the methodological challenges facing humanities scholars as they develop research methods attuned to online practices, cultures
Tags: affect, epilepsy, habit, health, medical humanities, medicine, quantification, quantified self, routine
Time and Space Online: Liveness, Authenticity, Locality
The second of our international network meeting’s thematic discussion sessions tackled the question of how we understand the relationship between online and offline – and whether, indeed, this distinction still makes sense. It also asked whether the ways in which digital media encourage us to understand time and space
Tags: archives, digital media, ethnicity, gender, identity, language, space, time
The Politics of Digital Life
In September 2015 King’s College London hosted a meeting of Ego-Media’s international network, bringing together academics from around the world who share our interest in how digital media are reshaping understandings of identity and modes of representing the self. The meeting was punctuated by a series of thematic discussions
Tags: agency, archives, data, identity, museums, politics, prosthetics, surveillance