new academic publication out: ‘red scare girlfriends’ and the ludic logic of online contrarianism
a book chapter i co-authored with a dear friend and multi-hyphenate pool of talent Eleni Maragkou is finally out.
this project, called “Red Scare girlfriends: Language games with the Red Scare podcast or the ludic logic of online contrarianism”, was a deep dive into the subcultural ironics of a dark corner of the womanosphere: the red scare podcast. in the paper, we look at pinterest and reddit communities to make sense of red scare podcast and its affective publics’ contradictory political alliances, trolling behaviour, as well as the hosts’ niche microcelebrity status through the frame of “playing politics”. i believe it’s the first paper on this part of the internet. it’s a long read, but a good one.
