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Appified: Culture in the Age of Apps

Jeremy Wade Morris and Sarah Murray, Editors
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Snapchat. WhatsApp. Ashley Madison. Fitbit. Tinder. Periscope. How do we make sense of how apps like these-and thousands of others-have embedded themselves into our daily routines, permeating the background of ordinary life and standing at-the-ready to be used on our smartphones and tablets? When we look at any single app, it's hard to imagine how such a small piece of software could be particularly notable. But if we look at a collection of them, we see a bigger picture that reveals how the quotidian activities apps encompass are far from banal: connecting with friends (and strangers and enemies), sharing memories (and personally identifying information), making art (and trash), navigating spaces (and reshaping places in the process). While the sheer number of apps is overwhelming, as are the range of activities they address, each one offers an opportunity for us to seek out meaning in the mundane. Appified is the first scholarly volume to examine individual apps within the wider historical and cultural context of media and cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity and the everyday.
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  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A. Welcome to the App Store
    • App Annie—Patrick Vonderau
    • Ashley Madison—Ben Light
    • Tencent MyApp (Yingyong Bao)—Luzhou Nina Li
    • Exodus International—Tarleton Gillespie
  • B. Productivity/Utilities
    • TaskRabbit—Sarah Sharma
    • Carrot—Sarah Murray
    • See Send—Greg Elmer and Bahar Nasirzadeh
    • Is It Tuesday?—Jeremy Morris
  • C. Health/Fitness
    • LoseIt!—Natasha Schüll
    • Fitbit—Kate O’Riordan
  • D. Lifestyle/Relationships
    • Tinder—Stefanie Duguay
    • Hollaback!—Carrie Rentschler
    • The Sex Offender Tracker App—Sharif Mowlabocus
    • Companion—Elizabeth Ellcessor
  • E. Social Networking/Communication
    • Yik Yak—Tamara Shepherd and Christopher Cwynar
    • WeChat—Finn Brunton
    • Snapchat—Jill Walker Rettberg
    • Foursquare—Germaine Halegoua
    • WhatsApp—Radhika Gajjala and Tarishi Verma
  • F. News/Entertainment
    • This. Reader—Devon Powers
    • Periscope—Megan Sapnar Ankerson
    • Tubi TV—Gerard Goggin
    • Hillary 2016—Fenwick McKelvey
  • G. Music/Sound
    • Shazam—Elena Razlogova
    • iMaschine 2—Victoria Simon
    • Here: Active Listening System—Mack Hagood
  • H. Casual/Games
    • RuPaul’s Drag Race Keyboard—Kate Miltner
    • DraftKings—Jason Kido Lopez
    • Kendall & Kylie—Jessalynn Keller and Alison Harvey
    • Neko Atsume—Shira Chess
    • References
  • Contributors
  • Index
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Published: 2018
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-07404-4 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-12435-0 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-05404-6 (paper)
Subject
  • Media Studies:New Media
  • Digital Projects
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