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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: Cara Wallis, "Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China" (NYU Press, 2025)
Description: Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists,Ā Social Media and Ordinary LifeĀ (NYU Press, 2025) is a deeply moving ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the rhythms of ordinary, everyday life. In choosing to foreground marginalized groups and communities, Cara Wallis gently shifts our attention away from the world of āsocial media influencersā and tech-centric discourses of entrepreneurial lives towards a decidedly ambivalent terrain of routine life practices.
AuthorĀ Cara WallisĀ is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan. She is the auth...