Formative Media

Formative Media presents a psychoanalytic and psychosocial inquiry into the significance of the most widely used digital platforms - including Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter (X) and Instagram - and the relational styles that users cultivate and habituate in their interplay with these platforms.

Autorentext

Steffen Krüger is senior lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests are located at the intersections of media studies and psychoanalysis, psychosocial studies, and critical theory.

Klappentext

Formative Media presents a psychoanalytic and psychosocial inquiry into the significance of the most widely used digital platforms - including Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter (X) and Instagram - and the relational styles that users cultivate and habituate in their interplay with these platforms.

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Acknowledgements

Series Preface

Introduction - the forms of formative media

Chapter 1

Outrageous growth and the Eros of Facebook

Chapter 2

The feeding tube - YouTube, oral cravings, and the question of addiction

Chapter 3

Anxious narcissism - Instagram, self-image practices, and the persistent question of narcissism

Chapter 4

Compromised formations - Google, obsession and the desublimation of knowledge

Chapter 5

The joke that isn't funny anymore - Twitter, aggression and the perfect shitstorm

Chapter 6

Conclusion - 'platforming' the digital subject

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