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03301aam a2200481 i 4500 001 18E1C0EC803411ED944134D030ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221220010056 008 220315s2023 njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022010237 020 $a 197882792X 020 $a 9781978827929 020 $a 1978827911 020 $a 9781978827912 035 $a (OCoLC)1309343513 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HM742 $b .M3254 2023 082 00 $a 302.23/1 $2 23/eng/20220404 100 1 $a Maddox, Jessica, $e author. 245 14 $a The Internet is for cats : $b how animal images shape our digital lives / $c Jessica Maddox. 264 1 $a New Brunswick : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a vii, 245 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Kittens in Context -- "I've Heard People on TikTok Love This": Attention as Materiality and Looking Relation -- Beyond Doomscrolling in an Internet of Cute -- "You Can't Buy Happiness, But You Can Rescue It": Neoliberal Pets and Animals -- Feels Good, Man: Collisions, Collusions, and Cloaks in Pet and Animal Social Media -- Nature is Healing, We are the Virus: Beyond Signifiers. 520 $a "LOLCats. Grumpy cat. Dog rating Twitter. Pet Instagram accounts. It's generally understood the internet is for pictures of cute cats (and dogs, and otters, and pandas), but how did this come to be, and how are images of pets and animals unique online social practices? In this important and engaging book, The Internet is for Cats, Jessica Maddox provides a social framework for thinking about an outrageously popular cultural phenomenon: pets and animals online. She examines how these images help make digital spaces lighthearted and fun, as well as how these images function as relieving distractions from other aspects of life. However, we cannot speak of relief or distractions without also discussing what we need relief and distractions from. Combining insights from cultural studies and Internet studies, as well as interviews, textual work, and observation, Maddox offers an entirely new approach to pets and animals on the Internet, arguing the Internet may be for cats, but the cats are also for social practices"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Social media $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Pets $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Animals in mass media. 650 0 $a Internet $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Human-animal relationships. 650 6 $a Medias sociaux $0 (CaQQLa)201-0373794 $x Aspect psychologique. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0373794 650 6 $a Animaux familiers $x Aspect social. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0001351 650 6 $a Animaux dans les medias. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0263320 650 6 $a Internet $x Aspect social. $0 (CaQQLa)000277542 650 6 $a Relations homme-animal. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0000979 650 7 $a Animals in mass media. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00809584 650 7 $a Human-animal relationships. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00963482 650 7 $a Internet $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01766793 650 7 $a Pets $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01059944 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025231.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=18E1C0EC803411ED944134D030ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search