Continuum (Published: 16th May 2024) ABSTRACT Knowingly re-circulated misinformation online is a widespread phenomenon that is increasingly met with suspicion or even condemnation in spite of the sharer’s intent. The article recasts misinformation sharing into cultural play practice questioning this sensibility. Drawing on Huizinga’s concept of play and the Lacanian notion of belief-through-other, it claims […]

Nordicom Review (Published: 12th Mar 2024) ABSTRACT While small groups leverage disproportionate visibility online, oftentimes resorting to hostile language, the use of social media for political expression by the majority of Norwegian users has been theorised in terms of lurking, inhibition, and self-restraint. Drawing from qualitative in-depth interviews with young adults of different political orientations […]

Communication & Democracy (Published online: 13 Sep 2023) ABSTRACT Once lauded for liberating audiences from their passive state by granting voice, the digital public sphere today increasingly resembles a cacophony of disjointed voices datafied for the gain of giant tech firms. Instead of bemoaning the co-optation of users’ activity, we might find it timely to […]

Cultural Intertexts (10/2020) ABSTRACT Although parallels between Kafka’s hybrid characters and Woody Allen’s Leonard Zelig have been noted in literature studies (Bruce 1998), the underlying interpretative synergy is not exhausted and occasions a revisit, timely in light of the social tensions of the century later present. Juxtaposing counterfactual history with actual highbrow commentary in the […]