Andrea Salter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 179344 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrea Salter |
| PRENOMES | Andrea |
| SOBRENOME | Salter |
| ASSINATURA | SALTER A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1468-1308 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Split Fiction
This article examines Split Fiction, a cooperative video game that engages with themes of authorship, creativity, and artificial intelligence in the digital age. The game presents aspiring authors whose creative ideas are extracted by a corporate machine—a metaphor for contemporary generative AI systems. Through its mandatory two-player cooperative mechanics and genre-shifting gameplay, Split Fiction explores tensions between human creativity and…
Stand with the Banned
Recent efforts at book banning in the United States’ schools and libraries have produced a number of material iterations of anti-banning sentiment in online retail spaces like Etsy. Most scholarship on banned books comes from an education or library science perspective, with little book or media studies scholarship focused on how banned books are represented in online spaces. In this paper, we examine the top 50 results from searching “banned boo…
Knitting the in_visible
Feminist scholars are drawing attention to how conventional forms of data representation fail to make visible the experiences of women and marginalized communities. While the problem of reinscribing the in_visibility of already under-visualized communities (and crises) is being acknowledged from a data science perspective, little attention is being paid to how craft redresses these issues of visibility. ‘Craftivism’, or the move towards activist …
Games and Public Anthropology
Multimodal anthropologists are using games and game design as a method for producing ethnographic knowledge collaboratively with research participants and as a genre for communicating anthropological knowledge with varied publics. As a methodological approach and a rhetorical genre, games offer unique affordances in that they highlight the dynamic interplay of structures, systems, rules, and norms on the one hand, and contingency, interaction, an…
Craftivism in the time of Covid
This study focuses on the social media discourse of craftivism between March 2020 and December 2020, coinciding the COVID-19 lockdowns across the United States and the US Presidential Election. The timeframe under examination also includes some of the most extensively covered Black Lives Matter protests to date in the United States, thus requiring an intersectional lens and attention to whose crafts are circulated and lauded. These three deeply i…
Not Your Robin Hood
In January 2021, GameStop and AMC, stocks with no discernable reason for an increase in value, rose abruptly in price. This was soon understood as the result of manipulation by members of the r/WallStreetBets subreddit. While individualized stock trading is often framed as equalizing the playing field, everyday people remain second-class participants in the stock market, which quickly became clear as trading was suspended on stocks the Redditors …
Stitching the Curve
Feminist scholars are increasingly drawing attention to the ways “big data” and data representations reinscribe gender and racial inequality, an issue made even more pressing by the role data has taken in our daily lives since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Stitching the Curve," a knitted pandemic data visualization project by librarians at the University of Alberta, offers an intersection between digital activism and craftivism, enabling a…
Communities of making
Studies of social media frequently focus on the most popular platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) and fail to consider more unconventional platforms and communities that nevertheless fit the criteria of social media. A comparison of fan communities emphasizing different content structures (Archive of Our Own, DeviantArt, and Fanfiction.net) to open source community platform GitHub can provide insight into the practices of communities of…
Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur
Fan producers engaged in monetization, or what Suzanne Scott has termed 'fantrepreneurs,' struggle with legal mechanisms for brand-building given the limitations of both copyright and platform moderation. These challenges have been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has fundamentally changed the way that cosplayers, or fans who dress up as characters from their favorite television shows or movies, market themselves in an increasingly o…
Plundered Hearts
The game genres that typically dominate the discourse of game studies, from role-playing games with their questing heroes to simulation games with their emphasis on settler and/or military aggression, are associated with masculinity. Romance, when it exists at all, is a footnote that follows the same rules of conquest and victory as other models of masculine play: princesses are rescued, lovers are “won.” This article argues that the very decisio…
"Every Word You Just Said Is Wrong"
The months leading up to the release of Disney franchise films The Last Jedi (December 2017) and Black Panther (February 2018) were marked by speculation, concern, and fervor in equal measures from the established fan communities of Star Wars and Marvel. Both franchises have been associated with toxic geek masculinity, a performed, communal hypermasculinity marked by exclusionary practices and rhetoric (Salter & Blodgett, 2017). By centering eith…
DeepFakes
In November 2017, a subreddit dedicated to ‘DeepFakes’ brought the work of machine-learning video face-swapping to widespread attention: the new ease of pornographic fakeswapping (focused primarily on celebrities, but also used more broadly to generate a type of revenge porn) became a content regulation topic of discussion on sites such as Pornhub and Reddit. Although the spaces dedicated to sharing these videos were gradually banned or moderated…
RelationshipGoals? Suicide Squad and Fandom’s Love of “Problematic” Men
In the DC Comics Universe, Harley Quinn and the Joker have been an iconic and problematic canonical couple, represented as everything from enviable “mad” lovers to abusive relationship cautionary tale. The couple made cinematic headlines in 2016 with the release of Suicide Squad. In this case study of the “mad love” canon/fanon ship (as embodied in recent works of fanfiction, shipper manifestos posted and shared through social media, and Tumblr d…
Ghostbusters is For Boys
In 2014, Paul Feig announced he was rebooting Ghostbusters, recasting the team as four women. The news was met with an outpouring of hate directed at the studio, media, and the stars. This had real consequences to the movie’s success: an extreme gender bias in reviews prior to the release date. We examine pivotal moments in this two-year incident through a data set collected from YouTube videos and comments, blog posts, reviews, forums, and artic…
Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media
Flash
How Flash rose and fell as the world's most ubiquitous yet divisive software platform, enabling the development and distribution of a world of creative content. Adobe Flash began as a simple animation tool and grew into a multimedia platform that offered a generation of creators and innovators an astonishing range of opportunities to develop and distribute new kinds of digital content. For the better part of a decade, Flash was the de facto stand…
Olive Schreiner, Epistolary Practices and Microhistories
Focusing on the letters of the South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), this article explores Schreiner's strategic uses of letter-writing as a key tool in her work as a cultural entrepreneur in a number of different social and political contexts. In advocating a microhistory approach which recognizes that macro and micro are interconnected and should be seen as lenses of perspective rather than as separate s…
The Work of Making and the Work it Does
Programmatic ideas regarding cultural sociology and its inter-relationship with cultural production inspired by the work of Inglis et al., Mukerji and Bennett are explored. A particular cultural assemblage, the editorial practices arising in an interdisciplinary project concerned with researching and publishing the letters of South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner, is detailed. Four key aspects of the particular 'bringi…
Hypermasculinity & Dickwolves
As video games have attracted more critical attention and theoretical discourse and games play a more visible part in our media landscape, the modern video game community impacts the wider world of online culture and warrants more detailed study. Using the case of the Dickwolves incident from Penny Arcade.com, the authors address issues of hypermasculinity and sexism within the gaming community and how this lens brings to light issues with a host…
The Epistolary Pact, Letterness
To a great extent, this is the epistolary pact-the call for a response from a specific reader within the correspondent's world.Most of the other aspects of epistolary discourse
Virtually Yours
Commentary on Tamboukou
Filling the Silences? Mass-Observation's Wartime Diaries, Interpretive Work and Indexicality
This article conceptualises the silences encountered when researching life writings and how these are filled through analytical and interpretive activities. Using examples from my research on Mass-Observation's (M-O's) women's wartime diaries and framing the discussion around M-O's concept of its observers as 'subjective cameras', the paper explores three sets of issues. Firstly, it considers the use of part of a data source, such as one diary or…
Olive Schreiner Globalising Social Inquiry
Globalization theory sees the processes of change it is concerned with as distinctively new, with a feminist analytics part of the newness of the current period too, focusing on some of the specific gender dynamics involved. However, the work of the feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) challenges, indeed overturns, such assumptions. Similar structural economic and political circumstances to those now called globalizatio…
Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur
Fan producers engaged in monetization, or what Suzanne Scott has termed 'fantrepreneurs,' struggle with legal mechanisms for brand-building given the limitations of both copyright and platform moderation. These challenges have been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has fundamentally changed the way that cosplayers, or fans who dress up as characters from their favorite television shows or movies, market themselves in an increasingly o…
DeepFakes
In November 2017, a subreddit dedicated to ‘DeepFakes’ brought the work of machine-learning video face-swapping to widespread attention: the new ease of pornographic fakeswapping (focused primarily on celebrities, but also used more broadly to generate a type of revenge porn) became a content regulation topic of discussion on sites such as Pornhub and Reddit. Although the spaces dedicated to sharing these videos were gradually banned or moderated…
The Epistolary Pact, Letterness
To a great extent, this is the epistolary pact-the call for a response from a specific reader within the correspondent's world.Most of the other aspects of epistolary discourse
Filling the Silences? Mass-Observation's Wartime Diaries, Interpretive Work and Indexicality
This article conceptualises the silences encountered when researching life writings and how these are filled through analytical and interpretive activities. Using examples from my research on Mass-Observation's (M-O's) women's wartime diaries and framing the discussion around M-O's concept of its observers as 'subjective cameras', the paper explores three sets of issues. Firstly, it considers the use of part of a data source, such as one diary or…
Olive Schreiner Globalising Social Inquiry
Globalization theory sees the processes of change it is concerned with as distinctively new, with a feminist analytics part of the newness of the current period too, focusing on some of the specific gender dynamics involved. However, the work of the feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) challenges, indeed overturns, such assumptions. Similar structural economic and political circumstances to those now called globalizatio…
Olive Schreiner, Epistolary Practices and Microhistories
Focusing on the letters of the South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), this article explores Schreiner's strategic uses of letter-writing as a key tool in her work as a cultural entrepreneur in a number of different social and political contexts. In advocating a microhistory approach which recognizes that macro and micro are interconnected and should be seen as lenses of perspective rather than as separate s…
The Work of Making and the Work it Does
Programmatic ideas regarding cultural sociology and its inter-relationship with cultural production inspired by the work of Inglis et al., Mukerji and Bennett are explored. A particular cultural assemblage, the editorial practices arising in an interdisciplinary project concerned with researching and publishing the letters of South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner, is detailed. Four key aspects of the particular 'bringi…
Ghostbusters is For Boys
In 2014, Paul Feig announced he was rebooting Ghostbusters, recasting the team as four women. The news was met with an outpouring of hate directed at the studio, media, and the stars. This had real consequences to the movie’s success: an extreme gender bias in reviews prior to the release date. We examine pivotal moments in this two-year incident through a data set collected from YouTube videos and comments, blog posts, reviews, forums, and artic…
RelationshipGoals? Suicide Squad and Fandom’s Love of “Problematic” Men
In the DC Comics Universe, Harley Quinn and the Joker have been an iconic and problematic canonical couple, represented as everything from enviable “mad” lovers to abusive relationship cautionary tale. The couple made cinematic headlines in 2016 with the release of Suicide Squad. In this case study of the “mad love” canon/fanon ship (as embodied in recent works of fanfiction, shipper manifestos posted and shared through social media, and Tumblr d…
Knitting the in_visible
Feminist scholars are drawing attention to how conventional forms of data representation fail to make visible the experiences of women and marginalized communities. While the problem of reinscribing the in_visibility of already under-visualized communities (and crises) is being acknowledged from a data science perspective, little attention is being paid to how craft redresses these issues of visibility. ‘Craftivism’, or the move towards activist …
Virtually Yours
Commentary on Tamboukou
Filling the Silences? Mass-Observation's Wartime Diaries, Interpretive Work and Indexicality
This article conceptualises the silences encountered when researching life writings and how these are filled through analytical and interpretive activities. Using examples from my research on Mass-Observation's (M-O's) women's wartime diaries and framing the discussion around M-O's concept of its observers as 'subjective cameras', the paper explores three sets of issues. Firstly, it considers the use of part of a data source, such as one diary or…
Olive Schreiner Globalising Social Inquiry
Globalization theory sees the processes of change it is concerned with as distinctively new, with a feminist analytics part of the newness of the current period too, focusing on some of the specific gender dynamics involved. However, the work of the feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) challenges, indeed overturns, such assumptions. Similar structural economic and political circumstances to those now called globalizatio…
Virtually Yours
Hypermasculinity & Dickwolves
As video games have attracted more critical attention and theoretical discourse and games play a more visible part in our media landscape, the modern video game community impacts the wider world of online culture and warrants more detailed study. Using the case of the Dickwolves incident from Penny Arcade.com, the authors address issues of hypermasculinity and sexism within the gaming community and how this lens brings to light issues with a host…
The Epistolary Pact, Letterness
To a great extent, this is the epistolary pact-the call for a response from a specific reader within the correspondent's world.Most of the other aspects of epistolary discourse
Olive Schreiner, Epistolary Practices and Microhistories
Focusing on the letters of the South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), this article explores Schreiner's strategic uses of letter-writing as a key tool in her work as a cultural entrepreneur in a number of different social and political contexts. In advocating a microhistory approach which recognizes that macro and micro are interconnected and should be seen as lenses of perspective rather than as separate s…
The Work of Making and the Work it Does
Programmatic ideas regarding cultural sociology and its inter-relationship with cultural production inspired by the work of Inglis et al., Mukerji and Bennett are explored. A particular cultural assemblage, the editorial practices arising in an interdisciplinary project concerned with researching and publishing the letters of South African feminist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner, is detailed. Four key aspects of the particular 'bringi…
Flash
How Flash rose and fell as the world's most ubiquitous yet divisive software platform, enabling the development and distribution of a world of creative content. Adobe Flash began as a simple animation tool and grew into a multimedia platform that offered a generation of creators and innovators an astonishing range of opportunities to develop and distribute new kinds of digital content. For the better part of a decade, Flash was the de facto stand…
Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media
Ghostbusters is For Boys
In 2014, Paul Feig announced he was rebooting Ghostbusters, recasting the team as four women. The news was met with an outpouring of hate directed at the studio, media, and the stars. This had real consequences to the movie’s success: an extreme gender bias in reviews prior to the release date. We examine pivotal moments in this two-year incident through a data set collected from YouTube videos and comments, blog posts, reviews, forums, and artic…
DeepFakes
In November 2017, a subreddit dedicated to ‘DeepFakes’ brought the work of machine-learning video face-swapping to widespread attention: the new ease of pornographic fakeswapping (focused primarily on celebrities, but also used more broadly to generate a type of revenge porn) became a content regulation topic of discussion on sites such as Pornhub and Reddit. Although the spaces dedicated to sharing these videos were gradually banned or moderated…
RelationshipGoals? Suicide Squad and Fandom’s Love of “Problematic” Men
In the DC Comics Universe, Harley Quinn and the Joker have been an iconic and problematic canonical couple, represented as everything from enviable “mad” lovers to abusive relationship cautionary tale. The couple made cinematic headlines in 2016 with the release of Suicide Squad. In this case study of the “mad love” canon/fanon ship (as embodied in recent works of fanfiction, shipper manifestos posted and shared through social media, and Tumblr d…
Plundered Hearts
The game genres that typically dominate the discourse of game studies, from role-playing games with their questing heroes to simulation games with their emphasis on settler and/or military aggression, are associated with masculinity. Romance, when it exists at all, is a footnote that follows the same rules of conquest and victory as other models of masculine play: princesses are rescued, lovers are “won.” This article argues that the very decisio…
"Every Word You Just Said Is Wrong"
The months leading up to the release of Disney franchise films The Last Jedi (December 2017) and Black Panther (February 2018) were marked by speculation, concern, and fervor in equal measures from the established fan communities of Star Wars and Marvel. Both franchises have been associated with toxic geek masculinity, a performed, communal hypermasculinity marked by exclusionary practices and rhetoric (Salter & Blodgett, 2017). By centering eith…
Not Your Robin Hood
In January 2021, GameStop and AMC, stocks with no discernable reason for an increase in value, rose abruptly in price. This was soon understood as the result of manipulation by members of the r/WallStreetBets subreddit. While individualized stock trading is often framed as equalizing the playing field, everyday people remain second-class participants in the stock market, which quickly became clear as trading was suspended on stocks the Redditors …
Stitching the Curve
Feminist scholars are increasingly drawing attention to the ways “big data” and data representations reinscribe gender and racial inequality, an issue made even more pressing by the role data has taken in our daily lives since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. "Stitching the Curve," a knitted pandemic data visualization project by librarians at the University of Alberta, offers an intersection between digital activism and craftivism, enabling a…
Communities of making
Studies of social media frequently focus on the most popular platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) and fail to consider more unconventional platforms and communities that nevertheless fit the criteria of social media. A comparison of fan communities emphasizing different content structures (Archive of Our Own, DeviantArt, and Fanfiction.net) to open source community platform GitHub can provide insight into the practices of communities of…
Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur
Fan producers engaged in monetization, or what Suzanne Scott has termed 'fantrepreneurs,' struggle with legal mechanisms for brand-building given the limitations of both copyright and platform moderation. These challenges have been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has fundamentally changed the way that cosplayers, or fans who dress up as characters from their favorite television shows or movies, market themselves in an increasingly o…
Games and Public Anthropology
Multimodal anthropologists are using games and game design as a method for producing ethnographic knowledge collaboratively with research participants and as a genre for communicating anthropological knowledge with varied publics. As a methodological approach and a rhetorical genre, games offer unique affordances in that they highlight the dynamic interplay of structures, systems, rules, and norms on the one hand, and contingency, interaction, an…
Craftivism in the time of Covid
This study focuses on the social media discourse of craftivism between March 2020 and December 2020, coinciding the COVID-19 lockdowns across the United States and the US Presidential Election. The timeframe under examination also includes some of the most extensively covered Black Lives Matter protests to date in the United States, thus requiring an intersectional lens and attention to whose crafts are circulated and lauded. These three deeply i…
Stand with the Banned
Recent efforts at book banning in the United States’ schools and libraries have produced a number of material iterations of anti-banning sentiment in online retail spaces like Etsy. Most scholarship on banned books comes from an education or library science perspective, with little book or media studies scholarship focused on how banned books are represented in online spaces. In this paper, we examine the top 50 results from searching “banned boo…
Knitting the in_visible
Feminist scholars are drawing attention to how conventional forms of data representation fail to make visible the experiences of women and marginalized communities. While the problem of reinscribing the in_visibility of already under-visualized communities (and crises) is being acknowledged from a data science perspective, little attention is being paid to how craft redresses these issues of visibility. ‘Craftivism’, or the move towards activist …
Split Fiction
This article examines Split Fiction, a cooperative video game that engages with themes of authorship, creativity, and artificial intelligence in the digital age. The game presents aspiring authors whose creative ideas are extracted by a corporate machine—a metaphor for contemporary generative AI systems. Through its mandatory two-player cooperative mechanics and genre-shifting gameplay, Split Fiction explores tensions between human creativity and…
Sociology (17 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Art (11 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Digital Games and Media (10 obras) · Media studies (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Aesthetics (6 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras)