Textual Cacophony explores the behaviors and routines of
communication within anonymous internet culture in Japan. Focusing
on the video sharing website Niconico, social media aggregation
sites, and the notorious 2channel message board, Daniel Johnson
uncovers these sites' complex cultures of writing that obscure
meaning through playful and opaque forms of deviant script and
overwhelming waves of text. Those practices conflate language with
images, meaning with play, and confound individual representation
with aggregate forms of social identity. Johnson argues that online
media cultures in and around Japan are entwined with a cultural
logic and visual syntax of cacophony that expresses ambivalence
toward representation, media form, and distinct experiences of
time. This aesthetic of cacophony provides an alternative way of
expressing social identity and belonging, with an unmarked sense of
anonymity providing a counter-form to the dissolving institutions
and relationships of neoliberal Japan. Textual Cacophony
investigates what it means and feels like to participate in this
influential online culture.
General
| Imprint: |
Cornell University East Asia Program
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
Daniel Johnson
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
176 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-7226-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-5017-7226-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781501772269 |
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