Laura Glitsos
Biographic Data
| ID | 668840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Glitsos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Glitsos |
| SIGNATURE | GLITSOS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2576-6371 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Living in Scroll Land: Anxiety and the Experience of Slop and Doom
The experience of contemporary living is wrapped up in the practice of the ‘endless scroll.’ For subjects embedded in the sophisticated infrastructures of developed nations, there is a sense that one’s smartphone is simultaneously emancipatory technology, connective tissue, and a gothic vortex of ‘slop and doom’. In mainstream discussions, this sentiment is often articulated as feelings of being sucked into the maelstrom of “doomscrolling” (Mitch…
The monstrous-digital: Data necropolitics, social media, and the assassination of Brian Thompson
This research article examines the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the ensuing social media attention on the alleged shooter Luigi Mangione. I argue that the incident can be read as a cultural moment that captures the essence of an emergent sensibility that I call the “monstrous-digital” because of its layered and complex interconnections with the digital apparatus as a space of control and contestation. Specifically, I c…
Looking at the Nose: Gender, Jewishness, and the Politics of Visual Mediation
The nose is a multisensory organ and a powerful bodily technology that helps orient the experience of consciousness in the material world, and yet, we have come to a socio-technological context so driven by ocularcentrism, largely as a result of the visual nature of social media and new media, that the nose is often reduced to just an idealised ‘shape’. This article explores how the contemporary construction and representation of the nose, especi…
The Somatechnics of Journalism: Applying an Embodied Perspective to Enduring Issues in Journalism Studies
This research applies Somatechnics to the study of journalism and contributes to an emergent epistemological “bodily turn” in the discipline of Journalism Studies. This is a turn toward the body, embodied experience, and the inevitable emotionality of journalism and the journalist as brought forth by Chantal Francoeur and Belinda Middleweek, among others. We invite journalism scholars (and practitioners) to understand journalists’ bodies as sophi…
The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
As a companion to 'music in Australia', rather than 'Australian music', this book acknowledges the complexity and contestation inherent in the term 'Australia', whilst placing the music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at its very heart. This companion emphasizes a diversity of musical experiences in the breadth of musical practice that flows though Australia, including Indigenous song, art music, children's music, jazz, country, p…
Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital
Introduction Skibidi Toilet began as an animated YouTube Web series early in 2023 that quickly spiralled into a wildly popular cultural phenomenon sprouting fandoms, wikis, threads, merchandise, and its very own moral panic (McKinnon and Harmon). It has recently grabbed the attention of Hollywood, and there are rumours that it is on its way to TV and a possible film treatment by Michael Bay (Wallenstein and Steiner). The episodes are short, surre…
Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture
Many theorists have expounded on what serial killing says about the social in any given context and the ways in which serial killing and media are entangled, in particular, Mark Seltzer, Jon Stratton and Elliot Leyton. However, in this article, we ask, how is serial killer mythology developing in relation to participatory culture typical of our current digital environment? In scaffolding discourse analysis with theories from various literature, s…
Fungible
At its core the quality of being fungible is the quality of being interchangeable, more specifically interchangeable with its likeness. Our currencies, ergo our financial systems, ergo our ways of life have been underpinned by the stability that a $5 note is worth the same as every other $5 note. This is perhaps why the word fungible has never really spilled over into everyday usage: it has traditionally been a word for legal documents and econom…
The Claremont serial killer and the production of class-based suburbia in serial killer mythology
This is an investigation into the ways in which serial killer mythology and notions of place are often co-created. In this study, we focus on the mythos of the serial killer and its relationship to the construct of Australian suburbia. We focus on the ways in which the tension between working-class suburbia and upper-middle-class suburbia plays out through the serial killer narrative. Politically, the serial killer narrative is also intertwined w…
World-ready: A Journalism Capstone Unit Model with International Focus in a Pandemic and Post-pandemic Landscape
In assessing the literature to date, in the field of journalism capstone units, there is an absence of research on the potential of Australian journalism capstone units that help cultivate journalism students’ international networks through new media platforms. I argue that there is a need for an Australian journalism capstone unit that focuses on a global vision for post-programme work opportunities in a radically changed and digitally driven gl…
Covid-19 and the ‘Perfectly Governed City’
In this article, I question the production of certain cultural and geographic zones under the new emergency protocols mandated through COVID-19 governance, by drawing upon the theoretical model of Foucault’s ‘perfectly governed city’ (1977, p. 198). I argue that in the first few months of 2020, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic response, the rapid absorption of state directives into the home (two-person rule) and the body (social distancing…
Having it both ways”: Containing the champions of feminism in female-led origin and solo superhero films
In this article, we consider the emerging trend of solo, female-led superhero films, and their repeated location in aesthetically distinct pasts or “closed moments.” This pastness, we contend, serves to distinguish the concerns of the protagonists, which are often read as feminist, as redundant for the contemporary audience. This framing is in keeping with a postfeminist cultural context, wherein feminist values and successes are celebrated, whil…
The Pepe the Frog meme: An examination of social, political, and cultural implications through the tradition of the Darwinian Absurd
This article offers an examination of the meme known as Pepe the Frog. In 2015, the Pepe the Frog meme was crowned ‘biggest meme of the year’ by Tumblr. However, only one year later, the Pepe character was branded as a hate symbol by the U.S. Anti-Defamation League. Having begun as an innocuous joke, the Pepe meme took on a range of other complex characteristics. One of the most important was its incorporation into alt-right politics. We discuss …
Ebbs and flows: Women as musicians in Perth popular music, 1980s–1990s
This article calls for a recognition of women’s roles in contributing to the Perth popular music scene during the 1980s and 1990s. The research thus functions as a balance to the already established literature which explores Perth popular music around this period more broadly. The research herein indicates a surge in women’s musicianship following on from the relatively low levels of women’s participation in the late 1960s to early 1970s. It has …
Sticky Business”: An Examination of Female Musicians in the Context of Perth’s Metal Community
This study investigates and elaborates on the experiences of female musicians in the Perth metal music community, which has traditionally been identified as a male-dominated environment and even a hypermasculine space. This study serves to inform the growing research emerging from metal music studies and to contribute to the wider conversation about women’s experiences in male-dominated fields. To undertake this research, I used a mixed-methods a…
Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts
Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls
In this article I focus on the genre of 'vaporwave', using the artist 18 Carat Affair as a case study, to explore the way the genre works as a project that produces, and takes pleasure in, a kind of 'memory play'. As a genre, vaporwave is a style of music collaged together from a wide variety of largely background musics such as muzak(R), 1980s elevator music and new age ambience. Vaporwave's 'memory play' is a project that takes remembering as i…
Screen as Skin: The Somatechnics of Touchscreen Music Media
In this article I explore the way mobile music devices with touchscreen technology produce new somatechnical figurations that reshape emotional dynamics of music listening. Using research drawn from a cyberethnography of online users from Reddit.com, I argue that the changing relationships between the human-computer interface result in new affective schemas that expand and reconfigure how it feels to listen to music in a mobile setting. In partic…
Nice girls don’t jive: The rise and fade of women in Perth music from the late 1950s to the early 1970s
This article examines the historical and social particularities that shaped women’s experiences as musicians in Perth popular music in the 1950s through to the early 1970s. In particular, I focus on the early rock and roll scene styled around the British influence that was popular in Perth during this time. The purpose of this article is to reveal the very real contributions that women made to the early period of popular music in Perth despite th…
Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls
In this article I focus on the genre of 'vaporwave', using the artist 18 Carat Affair as a case study, to explore the way the genre works as a project that produces, and takes pleasure in, a kind of 'memory play'. As a genre, vaporwave is a style of music collaged together from a wide variety of largely background musics such as muzak(R), 1980s elevator music and new age ambience. Vaporwave's 'memory play' is a project that takes remembering as i…
Having it both ways”: Containing the champions of feminism in female-led origin and solo superhero films
In this article, we consider the emerging trend of solo, female-led superhero films, and their repeated location in aesthetically distinct pasts or “closed moments.” This pastness, we contend, serves to distinguish the concerns of the protagonists, which are often read as feminist, as redundant for the contemporary audience. This framing is in keeping with a postfeminist cultural context, wherein feminist values and successes are celebrated, whil…
The Somatechnics of Journalism: Applying an Embodied Perspective to Enduring Issues in Journalism Studies
This research applies Somatechnics to the study of journalism and contributes to an emergent epistemological “bodily turn” in the discipline of Journalism Studies. This is a turn toward the body, embodied experience, and the inevitable emotionality of journalism and the journalist as brought forth by Chantal Francoeur and Belinda Middleweek, among others. We invite journalism scholars (and practitioners) to understand journalists’ bodies as sophi…
Sticky Business”: An Examination of Female Musicians in the Context of Perth’s Metal Community
This study investigates and elaborates on the experiences of female musicians in the Perth metal music community, which has traditionally been identified as a male-dominated environment and even a hypermasculine space. This study serves to inform the growing research emerging from metal music studies and to contribute to the wider conversation about women’s experiences in male-dominated fields. To undertake this research, I used a mixed-methods a…
Nice girls don’t jive: The rise and fade of women in Perth music from the late 1950s to the early 1970s
This article examines the historical and social particularities that shaped women’s experiences as musicians in Perth popular music in the 1950s through to the early 1970s. In particular, I focus on the early rock and roll scene styled around the British influence that was popular in Perth during this time. The purpose of this article is to reveal the very real contributions that women made to the early period of popular music in Perth despite th…
Screen as Skin: The Somatechnics of Touchscreen Music Media
In this article I explore the way mobile music devices with touchscreen technology produce new somatechnical figurations that reshape emotional dynamics of music listening. Using research drawn from a cyberethnography of online users from Reddit.com, I argue that the changing relationships between the human-computer interface result in new affective schemas that expand and reconfigure how it feels to listen to music in a mobile setting. In partic…
Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls
In this article I focus on the genre of 'vaporwave', using the artist 18 Carat Affair as a case study, to explore the way the genre works as a project that produces, and takes pleasure in, a kind of 'memory play'. As a genre, vaporwave is a style of music collaged together from a wide variety of largely background musics such as muzak(R), 1980s elevator music and new age ambience. Vaporwave's 'memory play' is a project that takes remembering as i…
The Pepe the Frog meme: An examination of social, political, and cultural implications through the tradition of the Darwinian Absurd
This article offers an examination of the meme known as Pepe the Frog. In 2015, the Pepe the Frog meme was crowned ‘biggest meme of the year’ by Tumblr. However, only one year later, the Pepe character was branded as a hate symbol by the U.S. Anti-Defamation League. Having begun as an innocuous joke, the Pepe meme took on a range of other complex characteristics. One of the most important was its incorporation into alt-right politics. We discuss …
Ebbs and flows: Women as musicians in Perth popular music, 1980s–1990s
This article calls for a recognition of women’s roles in contributing to the Perth popular music scene during the 1980s and 1990s. The research thus functions as a balance to the already established literature which explores Perth popular music around this period more broadly. The research herein indicates a surge in women’s musicianship following on from the relatively low levels of women’s participation in the late 1960s to early 1970s. It has …
Sticky Business”: An Examination of Female Musicians in the Context of Perth’s Metal Community
This study investigates and elaborates on the experiences of female musicians in the Perth metal music community, which has traditionally been identified as a male-dominated environment and even a hypermasculine space. This study serves to inform the growing research emerging from metal music studies and to contribute to the wider conversation about women’s experiences in male-dominated fields. To undertake this research, I used a mixed-methods a…
Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts
World-ready: A Journalism Capstone Unit Model with International Focus in a Pandemic and Post-pandemic Landscape
In assessing the literature to date, in the field of journalism capstone units, there is an absence of research on the potential of Australian journalism capstone units that help cultivate journalism students’ international networks through new media platforms. I argue that there is a need for an Australian journalism capstone unit that focuses on a global vision for post-programme work opportunities in a radically changed and digitally driven gl…
Covid-19 and the ‘Perfectly Governed City’
In this article, I question the production of certain cultural and geographic zones under the new emergency protocols mandated through COVID-19 governance, by drawing upon the theoretical model of Foucault’s ‘perfectly governed city’ (1977, p. 198). I argue that in the first few months of 2020, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic response, the rapid absorption of state directives into the home (two-person rule) and the body (social distancing…
Having it both ways”: Containing the champions of feminism in female-led origin and solo superhero films
In this article, we consider the emerging trend of solo, female-led superhero films, and their repeated location in aesthetically distinct pasts or “closed moments.” This pastness, we contend, serves to distinguish the concerns of the protagonists, which are often read as feminist, as redundant for the contemporary audience. This framing is in keeping with a postfeminist cultural context, wherein feminist values and successes are celebrated, whil…
Fungible
At its core the quality of being fungible is the quality of being interchangeable, more specifically interchangeable with its likeness. Our currencies, ergo our financial systems, ergo our ways of life have been underpinned by the stability that a $5 note is worth the same as every other $5 note. This is perhaps why the word fungible has never really spilled over into everyday usage: it has traditionally been a word for legal documents and econom…
The Claremont serial killer and the production of class-based suburbia in serial killer mythology
This is an investigation into the ways in which serial killer mythology and notions of place are often co-created. In this study, we focus on the mythos of the serial killer and its relationship to the construct of Australian suburbia. We focus on the ways in which the tension between working-class suburbia and upper-middle-class suburbia plays out through the serial killer narrative. Politically, the serial killer narrative is also intertwined w…
The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia
As a companion to 'music in Australia', rather than 'Australian music', this book acknowledges the complexity and contestation inherent in the term 'Australia', whilst placing the music of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at its very heart. This companion emphasizes a diversity of musical experiences in the breadth of musical practice that flows though Australia, including Indigenous song, art music, children's music, jazz, country, p…
Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital
Introduction Skibidi Toilet began as an animated YouTube Web series early in 2023 that quickly spiralled into a wildly popular cultural phenomenon sprouting fandoms, wikis, threads, merchandise, and its very own moral panic (McKinnon and Harmon). It has recently grabbed the attention of Hollywood, and there are rumours that it is on its way to TV and a possible film treatment by Michael Bay (Wallenstein and Steiner). The episodes are short, surre…
Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture
Many theorists have expounded on what serial killing says about the social in any given context and the ways in which serial killing and media are entangled, in particular, Mark Seltzer, Jon Stratton and Elliot Leyton. However, in this article, we ask, how is serial killer mythology developing in relation to participatory culture typical of our current digital environment? In scaffolding discourse analysis with theories from various literature, s…
Living in Scroll Land: Anxiety and the Experience of Slop and Doom
The experience of contemporary living is wrapped up in the practice of the ‘endless scroll.’ For subjects embedded in the sophisticated infrastructures of developed nations, there is a sense that one’s smartphone is simultaneously emancipatory technology, connective tissue, and a gothic vortex of ‘slop and doom’. In mainstream discussions, this sentiment is often articulated as feelings of being sucked into the maelstrom of “doomscrolling” (Mitch…
The monstrous-digital: Data necropolitics, social media, and the assassination of Brian Thompson
This research article examines the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the ensuing social media attention on the alleged shooter Luigi Mangione. I argue that the incident can be read as a cultural moment that captures the essence of an emergent sensibility that I call the “monstrous-digital” because of its layered and complex interconnections with the digital apparatus as a space of control and contestation. Specifically, I c…
Looking at the Nose: Gender, Jewishness, and the Politics of Visual Mediation
The nose is a multisensory organ and a powerful bodily technology that helps orient the experience of consciousness in the material world, and yet, we have come to a socio-technological context so driven by ocularcentrism, largely as a result of the visual nature of social media and new media, that the nose is often reduced to just an idealised ‘shape’. This article explores how the contemporary construction and representation of the nose, especi…
The Somatechnics of Journalism: Applying an Embodied Perspective to Enduring Issues in Journalism Studies
This research applies Somatechnics to the study of journalism and contributes to an emergent epistemological “bodily turn” in the discipline of Journalism Studies. This is a turn toward the body, embodied experience, and the inevitable emotionality of journalism and the journalist as brought forth by Chantal Francoeur and Belinda Middleweek, among others. We invite journalism scholars (and practitioners) to understand journalists’ bodies as sophi…
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