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 Seigworth
Introduction: On Affect and Social Media by Tony D. Sampson, Darren Ellis and Stephen Maddison
Part One: Digital Emotion
Introduction by Helen Powell
Chapter One: Social media, emoticons and process by Darren Ellis
Chapter Two: Anticipating affect: trigger warnings in a mental health social media site by Lewis Goodings
Chapter Three: Digitally mediated emotion: Simondon, affectivity and individuation by Ian Tucker
Chapter Four: Visceral data by Luke Stark
Chapter Five: Psychophysiological measures associated with affective states while using social media by Maurizio Mauri
Part Two: Mediated Connectivities, Immediacies & Intensities
Introduction by Jussi Parikka
Chapter Six: Social media and the materialisation of the affective present by Rebecca Coleman
Chapter Seven: The education of feeling: Wearable technology & triggering pedagogies by Alyssa D. Niccolini
Chapter Eight: Mediated affect & feminist solidarity: Teens’ using Twitter to challenge ‘rape culture’ in and around school by Jessica Ringrose and Kaitlynn Mendes
Part Three: Insecurity and Anxiety
Introduction by Darren Ellis and Stephen Maddison
Chapter Nine: Wupocalypse Now: Supertrolls and other risk Anxieties in social media interactions by Greg Singh
Chapter Ten: Becoming user in popular culture by Zara Dinnen
Chapter Eleven: #YouTuberanxiety: Affect and anxiety performance in UK beauty vlogging by Sophie Bishop
Chapter Twelve: Chemsex: anatomy of a sex panic by Jamie Hakim
Chapter Thirteen: Designing life? Affect and gay porn by Stephen Maddison
Chapter Four: Contagion: Image, Work, Politics and Control
Introduction by Tony D Sampson
Chapter Fourteen: The mask of Ebola: Fear, contagion, and immunity by Yiğit Soncul
Chapter Fifteen: 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
Chapter Sixteen: Emotions, social media communication and TV debates by Morgane Kimmich
Chapter Seventeen: The Failed Utopias of Walden and Walden Two by Robert Wright
Acknowledgements
Index
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