Have 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 ‘Rawdogging’ Flights & God, Help Us by Rebecca Mitchell
Why Men Are ‘Rawdogging’ Flights by Kate Lindsay

How Long Gone podcast by Chris Black and Jason Stewart

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

From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation - André Brock

I Like Turtles Kid on YouTube

Apparently Kid on YouTube

The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators - bell hooks

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.

The Enduring Romance of Mixtapes - Andee Tagle

Pint, 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

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 Nakamura - The Unwanted Labour of Social Media: Women of Colour Call Out Culture As Venture Community Management

Burcu Baykurt - U.S. soft power and Silicon Valley

Kelley Cotter - Shadowbanning gaslighting

Sophie Bishop - Algorithmic gossip

Laura Savolainen - The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore

Meta'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)

TikTok 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) - https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/1021/Laura%2520Mulvey,%2520Visual%2520Pleasure.pdf

Gender Performativity (Judith Butler) - https://lauragonzalez.com/TC/BUTLER_gender_trouble.pdf

"Who's Your Daddy?" (Simon J. Bronner) - https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/403060

Tube 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 Ahmed) - ⁠https://www.dukeupress.edu/queer-phenomenology⁠

Queer World-Making and Club Culture (Fiona Buckland) - ⁠https://books.google.nl/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Vk1k61LRwiEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&ots=hkctic9x-x&sig=U1gAS8-Jg2UcPIvKYdkG9HUBLlg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false⁠

Talking 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