Very pleased to say that our new A&SM book is published today. See the reviews and contents below…
Don’t forget to take part in our A&SM#4 conference and book launch in Nov (information and cfp here)
The book will also be available at the wonderful Capacious conference in August in Lancaster PA.
Affect and Social Media
Emotion, Mediation, Anxiety and Contagion
Edited by Tony Sampson, Stephen Maddison, and Darren Ellis
Part of the series Radical Cultural Studies
Publication Date: Jul 2018 (today!)
Reviews
Contents
Foreword by Gregory J. Seigworth xi
Introduction: On Affect, Social Media and Criticality by Tony D. Sampson, Darren Ellis and Stephen Maddison 1
Part I: Digital Emotion
Introduction to Part I by Helen Powell 13
1 Social Media, Emoticons and Process by Darren Ellis 18
2 Anticipating Affect: Trigger Warnings in a Mental Health Social Media Site by Lewis Goodings 26
3 Digitally Mediated Emotion: Simondon, Affectivity and Individuation by Ian Tucker 35
4 Visceral Data by Luke Stark 42
5 Psychophysiological Measures Associated with Affective States while Using Social Media by Maurizio Mauri 52
Part II: Mediated Connectivities, Immediacies & Intensities
Introduction to Part II by Jussi Parikka 65
6 Social Media and the Materialisation of the Affective Present by Rebecca Coleman 67
7 The Education of Feeling: Wearable Technology and Triggering Pedagogies by Alyssa D. Niccolini 76
8 Mediated Affect and Feminist Solidarity: Teens Using Twitter to Challenge “Rape Culture” in and Around School by Jessica Ringrose and Kaitlynn Mendes 85
Part III: Insecurity and Anxiety
Introduction to Part III by Darren Ellis and Stephen Maddison 99
9 Wupocalypse Now: Supertrolls and Other Risk Anxieties in Social Media Interactions by Greg Singh 101
10 Becoming User in Popular Culture by Zara Dinnen 113
11 YouTubeanxiety: Affect and Anxiety performance in UK Beauty vlogging by Sophie Bishop 122
12 Chemsex: Anatomy of a Sex Panic by Jamie Hakim 131
13 Designing Life? Affect and Gay Porn by Stephen Maddison 141
Part IV: Contagion: Image, Work, Politics and Control
Introduction to Part IV by Tony D. Sampson 153
14 The Mask of Ebola: Fear, Contagion, and Immunity by Yig ˘it Soncul 157
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 168
16 Emotions, Social Media Communication and TV Debates by Morgane Kimmich 178
17 The Failed Utopias of Walden and Walden Two by Robert Wright 188
Index 199
About the Contributors 203