Call for abstracts: Textures of Digital Entertainment
This special issue seeks to foreground digital entertainment as an experiential, aesthetic, and practice-based phenomenon. We invite contributions that examine what entertainment feels like, how it structures attention and distraction, and how emerging formats reshape everyday life. From short-form video and ambient gaming to parasocial livestream “hangouts,” ASMR, cozy games, hybrid meme aesthetics, and mood-based playlists, contemporary entertainment formats generate distinct sensory grammars and micro-temporal rhythms that organise everyday engagement.
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