Index
David Beer
(University of York, UK)
ISBN: 978-1-78769-916-8, eISBN: 978-1-78769-913-7
Publication date: 11 October 2019
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Citation
Beer, D. (2019), "Index", The Quirks of Digital Culture, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 105-108. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-913-720191007
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2019 David Beer
INDEX
Index
Acceleration. See also Cultural acceleration
, 31–35
Advert
, 13, 62, 71, 73–74, 81
Advertising
, 6, 14–15, 74, 77–78
Affective archives
, 45–46
Algorithms
, 4, 24–25
as heroes and villains
, 26–29
Alphabet
, 4
Amazon
, 6
Amazon Echo
, 77
Archive
, 33, 36, 42, 44–46, 51–52
Attention
, 2–5, 20, 30, 35, 65, 69, 72–76, 86
Back to the Future (film)
, 58
Backfire effect
, 65–67
Bad objects
, 66
Bananarama
, 46, 49–50
Being media content
, 42
Big Break
, 40
Bodies in bubbles
, 58–61
Book
, 13, 36
Border, risk and security decisions
, 24
Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, A (album)
, 48
British music scene
, 18–19
Broadcast
, 17, 42, 44, 51–52
media
, 22, 26, 31–32
‘Broader philosophical shift’
, 72
Bubbles (Sloterdijk)
, 60
Bubbling
, 27
Bullseye
, 40, 42
Buzz
, 32
Cambridge Analytica
, 67–69
Capitalism
, 7, 33
‘cold intimacies’ of
, 74–75
Cassette tapes
, 47–48
Casual adornment
, 7
Casualisation
, 7
Casualness
, 8
Categories
, 14–15, 20, 22–23, 35–36
CD
, 18, 20, 32, 47
CD Walkman
, 58
Celebrity Squares
, 40
Change in music cultures
, 21
Chart rules
, 31
Classification
, 12–15, 37
‘Collateral damage’ of capitalism
, 7
Collective backfiring
, 64–67
Comebacks, (see musical comebacks)
‘Comfort of things’
, 57
Comforts of smartness
, 61–64
Competition
, 62
Connections
, 55
Conversation, The
, 75–76, 78
‘Crazy’ (Barkley)
, 32
Crew-neck capitalism
, 7–10
Crisis of culture
, 82
Cultural acceleration
debut number 1s and accelerating pop chart
, 31–35
Vine’s closure
, 29–31
Cultural shield
, 60
Culture
, 10, 12, 55, 86
and media
, 84
platforming of
, 39
shifts in
, 4, 12
of speed
, 31
Cybernetic imagery
, 63
Cyborg manifesto
, 63
Cyborgs
, 63
‘Dank’ meme
, 1
Data
informed targeting
, 72
infrastructure
, 4
Davies panoramic account
, 64
Decentralisation
of culture
, 85
of media
, 26
Deliveroo
, 6
Demotic turn
, 42
Derrida, Jacques
, 52
Digital culture
, 4–5
crew-neck capitalism
, 7–10
quirks
, 5–6
Discomfort
power of data
, 67–70
of smartness
, 61–64
Disconnection
, 56
Doteveryone
, 4
Download
, 18, 20, 32, 47–48
Earphones
, 27, 58
Echo Chamber
, 27, 67
Evocative objects
, 48, 57–58
Facebook
, 4, 6, 26, 51, 67–70, 72, 81
Family Fortunes
, 40
Fashion
, 7, 17, 33, 35, 82
Fiction
, 62
Film
, 36, 46, 76
‘Filter bubble’
, 26–27, 65–67
Fireworks
, 18–19
‘Flash crash’
, 25
Flickering friendships of social media
, 3
Foucault, Michel
, 14
Fragmentary character
, 82
Fragmentation of culture
, 21, 85–86
Fragments
, 6, 82–83
Free labour
, 69
Friends
, 8, 20
Future
, 39
Game shows
, 39–42
Games
, 41–42
Genre
chaos of music
, 20–23
labels
, 22
Good Fight, The
, 77
Google
, 6, 14
Guinness Book of Records, The
, 13
Happy (Williams)
, 33
Hashtags
, 12, 15, 36, 73
Here in My Heart (Al Martino)
, 34
Home
, 13–14, 16, 41, 60
Home-space
, 78
Hyper-insecurity of gig economy
, 7
Ideals
, 8–9, 64, 70–72
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus
, 2
‘Immediation’, pursuit of
, 28
Individuals
, 2–3, 7, 12, 50, 53, 59–60, 62, 64, 67–68
Infoglut
, 28, 75
Information
, 4, 27
Instagram
, 6, 51
Interpellation
, 2, 74
iPod took
, 58
Judgment
, 11, 15
Kardashians, The
, 42
Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge
, 44
Labour
, 2, 7, 46, 69, 70
‘Love is All Around’
, 31
Media content
, 42
Media savviness
, 39–42, 45
Melody Maker
, 16
Memes
, 29–30
Memories, social media and
, 51–53
Mess(y)
, 2, 13, 15
Microphone
, 75
Minecraft
, 6
Mobile
, 21
cultural consumption
, 60
devices
, 39, 56, 58–59
music devices
, 59–60
trends
, 33
Music
chaos of music genres
, 20–23
cultures
, 49
streaming
, 21
Musical comebacks
, 49–51
Nervous States (Davies)
, 64
Netflix
, 6, 12
Networked individualism
, 27
Nevermind (album)
, 43
New order of things
, 12
Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
, 43
NME, end of
, 16–17, 19
No Tourists (album)
, 48
‘Normie’ memes
, 1
Nostalgia
, 45–47, 49
Notion of the algorithm
, 25
Number 1s
, 31–35
On-demand culture
, 2, 4, 81–86
On-demand nature of cultural consumption
, 3
Only Way is Essex, The
, 42
Order of things
, 11–12
algorithms
, 24–29
cultural acceleration
, 29–35
music genres, chaos of
, 20–23
NME, end of
, 16–17, 19
3 Alveston Place, Leamington Spa
, 17–19
Vine’s closure
, 29–31
Yellow Pages
, 13–15
Order of Things, The (Foucault)
, 14
PageRank algorithm (Google)
, 14
Personalisation
, 6, 74, 77, 84
Phone
Platform
capitalism
, 1–2, 7, 68
culture
, 2, 72–73, 81
nostalgia
, 45–47
Popular Culture and New Media
, 46
‘Post-truth’ politics
, 27–28
Power dynamics
, 84
Prediction rather than curation. See also Social media
, 27
Psychographics
, 67
Quirks
, 5–6
Radio frequency identity tags
, 63
Recommendation
, 2, 24, 36, 45, 62–63, 75, 77
Relations
, 4, 10, 39, 84–85
Retromania
, 46, 49
Roblox
, 6
‘Saturday Night’ (Whigfield)
, 31
Scene
, 2, 10, 12, 43, 45, 84
Seapunk
, 20
Self-organising system
, 22
Sensitive interests
, 14
Simmel, Georg
, 6, 35, 55, 82–83
Simpsons, The
, 18
Smart objects
, 62, 64
Smartness, comforts and discomforts of
, 61–64
Smartphone
, 55–56, 62
comfort of
, 56–58
Smartwater
, 62
Snapchat
, 30, 51
Social change
, 39–42
Social media
, 4, 30, 39, 46–47
algorithms
, 26
collective backfiring
, 64–67
discomforting power of data
, 67–70
‘filter bubble’
, 26–27
flickering friendships of
, 3
ideals and tensions
, 70–72
and memories
, 51–53
in music culture
, 32
Social power of algorithms
, 27
Sociological impressionism
, 85
Sonic data harvesting
, 76
Sorting Things Out
, 14
Sound of surveillance
, 75–78
Spotify
, 6
Streaming
, 20–21, 32, 34–35, 47–48, 63
Strike it Lucky
, 40
Surveillance
society
, 72
sound of
, 75–78
Take Your Pick
, 40
Tape
, 18, 20, 58
Territorial Pissings
, 43
The Price Is Right
, 40
3 Alveston Place, Leamington Spa
, 17–19
321 (TV show)
, 40
Top of the Pops
, 43
Trend
, 1, 16, 19, 27, 30–31, 33, 35, 50, 60, 78
Trending
, 17, 21
TV
, 73–75
game shows
, 39–42
Tweet
, 12, 65
Twitter
, 6, 30, 51
Uncertainty
, 58
Uptown Funk (Ronson)
, 33
Value
, 2, 7–8, 15, 46, 67–69, 72
Vine’s closure
, 29–31
Vinyl
, 20, 33
‘Voice-sniffing’ technology
, 78
WeChat
, 4, 6
Wheel of Fortune
, 40–41
Workplace
, 78
Yellow Pages
, 13–15
end of
, 19
YouTube
, 6, 13, 22, 46