Full Description
Affect and Social Media is an edited collection of twenty bite sized articles by leading scholars from across disciplinary boundaries. It is comprised of four distinct but related sections which are interspersed with artistic illustrations, depicting the affectivities that flow through social media. The term 'affect' denotes a rather slippery concept that is not as easily caught as for example 'emotion' or 'feeling'. Quite often it denotes a more than or an excess to that which is felt in the human body or indexed through cultural grids of meaning. It can exist in ways which defy expectations, conventions, and representations. It is often understood as that which is vital to the emergence of the new and hence socio-cultural revolution. As life shifts ever more on-line, we find ourselves caught up in the affective flows of computer mediated practices into an ever expanding and indeterminate horizon. This compilation of articles that were initially presented at an international conference in East London, were selected on the basis of their ability to depict and conceptualise these radical movements of sociality.
Contents
Foreword by Gregory J. Seigworth
Introduction: On Affect, Social Media and Criticality by Tony D. Sampson, Darren Ellis and Stephen Maddison
Part I: Digital Emotion
Introduction to Part I by Helen Powell
1 Social Media, Emoticons and Process by Darren Ellis
2 Anticipating Affect: Trigger Warnings in a Mental Health Social Media Site by Lewis Goodings
3 Digitally Mediated Emotion: Simondon, Affectivity and Individuation by Ian Tucker
4 Visceral Data by Luke Stark
5 Psychophysiological Measures Associated with Affective States while Using Social Media by Maurizio Mauri
Part II: Mediated Connectivities, Immediacies & Intensities
Introduction to Part II by Jussi Parikka
6 Social Media and the Materialisation of the Affective Present by Rebecca Coleman
7 The Education of Feeling: Wearable Technology and Triggering Pedagogies by Alyssa D. Niccolini
8 Mediated Affect and Feminist Solidarity: Teens Using Twitter to Challenge "Rape Culture" in and Around School by Jessica Ringrose and Kaitlynn Mendes
Part III: Insecurity and Anxiety
Introduction to Part III by Darren Ellis and Stephen Maddison
9 Wupocalypse Now: Supertrolls and Other Risk Anxieties in Social Media Interactions by Greg Singh
10 Becoming User in Popular Culture by Zara Dinnen
11 YouTubeanxiety: Affect and Anxiety performance in UK Beauty vlogging by Sophie Bishop
12 Chemsex: Anatomy of a Sex Panic by Jamie Hakim
13 Designing Life? Affect and Gay Porn by Stephen Maddison
Part IV: Contagion: Image, Work, Politics and Control
Introduction to Part IV by Tony D. Sampson
14 The Mask of Ebola: Fear, Contagion, and Immunity by Yig ˘it Soncul
15 The Newsroom is No Longer a Safe Zone: Assessing the Affective Impact of Graphic User-generated Images on Journalists Working with Social Media by Stephen Jukes
16 Emotions, Social Media Communication and TV Debates by Morgane Kimmich
17 The Failed Utopias of Walden and Walden Two by Robert Wright
Index
About the Contributors
