Communication and Information Technologies Annual

Introduction: Volume 11 - Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz, Shelia R. Cotten, Timothy M. Hale, Apryl A. Williams and Joy L. Hightower SECTION I: COMMUNICATIVE CULTURES On Violating One’s Own Privacy: N-adic Utterances and Inadvertent Disclosures in Online Venues - Xiaoli Tian and Daniel A. Menchik Couples’ Use of Technology in Maintaining Relationships - Xiaolin Zhuo SECTION II: MEDIA, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY Spectacles of Self(ie) Empowerment? Networked Individualism and the Logic of the (Post)Feminist Selfie - Stephen R. Barnard You’ve Been Catfished: An Analysis of Postemotionalism in “Reality” Television and Audience Response on Twitter - Apryl A. Williams Cultures of Experimentation: Role-Playing Games and Sexual Identity - Ciaran Devlin and Anne Holohan SECTION III: DIGITAL PUBLIC CULTURES Twitter Sentiments: Pattern Recognition and Poll Prediction - Francis P. Barclay, C. Pichandy, Anusha Venkat and Sreedevi Sudhakaran The Limits of Neoliberalism: How Writers and Editors Use Digital Technologies in the Literary Field - Matthew Clair The Role of Mass Media in the Transmission of Culture - Julie B. Wiest SECTION IV: METHODS FOR STUDYING MEDIA AND CULTURE Virtual Tours: Enhancing Qualitative Methodology to Holistically Capture Youth Peer Cultures - Ana Campos-Holland, Brooke Dinsmore and Jasmine Kelekay Sentiment Analysis of Polarizing Topics in Social Media: News Site Readers’ Comments on the Trayvon Martin Controversy - Gabe Ignatow, Nicholas Evangelopoulos and Konstantinos Zougris