id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
spir-11228	Harper, Paula Clare	VIRAL MUSICKING: AESTHETICS AND ITERATIONS IN ONLINE CONTAGION	2020.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1155	39	26	For me, the term foregrounds ambivalences bound up in digital viral circulation: of bodily threat and aesthetic pleasure, of constant negotiation between everyday users, powerful platforms, and black-boxed nonhuman algorithms. I value the productive friction embedded within the term “viral musicking,” which forces proximity between the human-forward sociality of Small’s “musicking” concept, and “viral”—a term somewhat famously rejected by media scholar Henry Jenkins, for its tendency to construe users as passive zombie hosts.4 In my conception of “viral musicking,” I seek to highlight this tension.	cache/spir-11228.pdf	txt/spir-11228.txt