Book Review: Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture – Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data by Jacob Johanssen & Event Horizon – Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism by Bonni Rambatan & Jacob Johanssen

Jamie Ranger

doi:10.31269/triplec.v20i1.1325

Book Review: Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture – Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data by Jacob Johanssen & Event Horizon – Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism by Bonni Rambatan & Jacob Johanssen

Jamie Ranger University of Oxford

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v20i1.1325

Keywords: affect theory, social media, big data, event horizon, lacan, psychoanalysis, skin ego, audiences

Abstract

Jamie Ranger reviews Jacob Johanssen’s Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture – Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data. The book offers a comprehensive account of our contemporary media environment – digital culture and audiences in particular – by drawing on psychoanalysis and media studies frameworks. Event Horizon, written by Johanssen in co-authorship with Bonni Rambatan, applies a psychoanalytic lens to online culture, modern sexuality and politics to examine the functioning of capitalist ideology.

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Published

2022-02-07

Issue

Vol 20 No 1 (2022)

Section

Reflections (Non Peer-Reviewed)

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