@article{1431431,
      recid = {1431431},
      author = {Andreallo, Fiona,},
      title = {Mapping selfies and memes as touch /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This open access book offers a rich and nuanced analysis  of digitally networked socialities as culturally meaningful  relationships of Touch. Focusing on the ways Touch is  practised in everyday social interactions serves as a basis  for understanding how Touch is multiply significant  physically, emotionally, intellectually and politically.  Fiona Andreallo initiates a map of the fundamentals of  Touch and how they can be considered for future research in  considering digitally networked cultures. This map also  serves as a basis for closely examining selfies and memes.  Andreallo focuses on a specific example of the  PrettyGirlsUglyFaces meme and ugly selfies (uglies) and  explores how memes and selfies are mapped as Touch  involving textures of both intimacy and violence. Andreallo  also discusses technological seamlessness and  culturalsemefulness as conversations on the social  relationships of Touch, and proposes the term  semefulsociabilities to describe how the everyday  technological self engages in practices of Touch. This book  is a compact and approachable insight into selfies and  memes as everyday culturally networked Touch relationships,  and offers a way forward in recognising technological  relationships as culturally meaningful. Fiona Andreallo is  a Postdoctoral, Early Career fellow in Design and Social  Context at RMIT University, Australia. She is also an  Honorary Research Associate in Media and Communications at  The University of Sydney, Australia. Fionas research  focuses on human-technological relationships, communication  and cultures. She has previously published in areas of  social media, social robotics and technological  relationships towards personalised care. Her research  approach is shaped by her background as a digital media  artist. In her research, she has worked with prominent  stakeholders, including local government, art galleries,  private care companies, and The Sydney Institute for  Robotics and Information Systems (SIRIS).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1431431},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94316-5},
}