Personal profile
Research interests
- Digital detox / resisting digital culture
- The sharing economy
- Online communities
- Work in the digital economy
- The internet in everyday life
- Digital romance
- Belonging, cosmopolitanism and identity
- Digital food cultures
Biographical details
Zeena Feldman’s research investigates intersections between communication, technology and everyday life. Her work is motivated by questions around how digital technologies interface with traditionally analogue concepts – for instance, work, subjectivity, romance, conflict, self-care, cooking and eating. Her work has also traced the birth and evolution of the contemporary ‘sharing economy’. Previously, she proposed the key concepts passion-based social networking sites and templatisation – two theoretical frameworks aimed at locating the power and limits of social media participation.
Zeena’s work has appeared in Information, Communication & Society; TripleC; Cultural Policy, Criticism & Management Research; OpenDemocracy, and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Her edited collection, Art & The Politics of Visibility (IB Tauris) was published in 2017 and she is currently working on a monograph, Belonging in a Social Networking Age. She also leads the Quitting Social Media project.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 4 Quality Education
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Why are we like this? A review of Influencer Creep
Feldman, Z., 2026, In: Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Algorithms for her? 2: Feminist approaches to digital infrastructures, cultures and economies
Feldman, Z., Miltner, K., Glatt, Z., Bishop, S. & Gerrard, Y., 24 Oct 2025, In: JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES. 34, 8, p. 1107-1117 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Beyond Hookup Apps: Intimacies and smartphones
Feldman, Z., 2025, In: SEXUALITIES.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Digital Foodscapes: Past - Present - Future
Allgaier, J., Bartelmeß, T., Decorte, P., Evans, R., Feldman, Z., Fernandez, M., Forno, F., Graf, K., Grosglik, R., Han, D.-I. D., Huey, S. L., König, L. M., Leer, J., Lewis, T., Munk, A. K., Onorati, M. G., Parasecoli, F., Partridge, S. R., Podszun, M. C. & Rüdiger, S. & 4 others, , 2025, arXiv.Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Preprint
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Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis: Roundtable Discussion
Hakim, J., Cummings, J., Young, I., Feldman, Z., Gill , R., Mercer, J. & Cheong, N., Sept 2025, In: SEXUALITIES. 28, 5-6, p. 1950-1967Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Activities
- 6 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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How does it feel to live without a smartphone? ‘Almost spiritual’
Feldman, Z. (Contributor)
11 Aug 2023Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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RuPaul’s Drag Race: how social media made drag’s subversive art form into a capitalist money maker
Feldman, Z. (Contributor) & Hakim, J. (Contributor)
2020Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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How social media pushed the masses to accept that anti-blackness is everybody’s problem
Feldman, Z. (Contributor)
2020Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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The Facebook President: Fact trumps fiction
Feldman, Z. (Contributor)
1 Dec 2017Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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Late Night Woman's Hour – Work and Rest (BBC Radio 4)
Feldman, Z. (Contributor)
27 Oct 2017Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation