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Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion

Feelings, Affect and Technological Change

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  1. Athina Karatzogianni

    1. University of Hull, UK

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  2. Adi Kuntsman

    1. The University of Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures

    1. Introduction: Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures

      • Adi Kuntsman
      Pages 1-17

  3. Affect in the Age of the Digital

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. War By Other Means: What Difference Do(es) the Graphic(s) Make?

      • Patricia Ticineto Clough
      Pages 21-32

    3. Nanoarchitectures: The Synthetic Design of Extensions and Thoughts

      • Luciana Parisi
      Pages 33-51

    4. WikiLeaks Affects: Ideology, Conflict and the Revolutionary Virtual

      • Athina Karatzogianni
      Pages 52-73

  4. Subjects and Objects of Digital Cultures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Affect, Fantasy and Digital Cultures

      • Debra Ferreday
      Pages 77-93

    3. Videogames and the Digital Sublime

      • Eugénie Shinkle
      Pages 94-108

    4. Digital Affect, Clubbing and Club Drug Cultures: Reflection, Anticipation, Counter-Reaction

      • Karenza Moore
      Pages 109-126

    5. Touching Tales: Emotion in Digital Object Memories

      • Kerstin Leder Mackley, Angelina Karpovich
      Pages 127-143
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About this book

Fifteen thought-provoking essays engage in an innovative dialogue between cultural studies of affect, feelings and emotions, and digital cultures, new media and technology. The volume provides a fascinating dialogue that cuts across disciplines, media platforms and geographic and linguistic boundaries.

Reviews

'Studies of Internet communication have tended, for too long, to sideline the importance of the emotions. This book sets out to remedy this important oversight, and succeeds brilliantly. It offers us a rich new theoretical and conceptual vocabulary with which to grasp the affective dynamics of life online. The contributions tease-out from a wide range of empirical case studies the ways in which the emotive power of love, hate, seduction, passion, nostalgia and mourning reverberate through (and beyond) the realm of the Internet, with profound implications for our individual and collective lives. Scholarly, informative and provocative, Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion should be read by all those interested in technology and culture.'

- Majid Yar, Professor of Sociology, University of Hull, UK

'Bringing together cutting-edge theory and specific case studies, this collection bridges the gap between the cultural studies of affect and digital culture, assembling a much needed, much waited for feminist, postcolonial and queer perspective on new media. Ground-breaking and unmissable.'

- Tiziana Terranova, Professor in Sociology of Communication at the University of Naples, Italy

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hull, UK

    Athina Karatzogianni

  • The University of Manchester, UK

    Adi Kuntsman

About the editors

PATRICIA TICINETO CLOUGHProfessor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York, USA DEBRA FERREDAYLecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK MELISSA GREGGLecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia LAURA-ZOË HUMPHREYSJoint Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, USA ANGELINA KARPOVICHLecturer in Multimedia and Broadcasting Technology at Brunel University, UK KERSTIN LEDERResearch Associate in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK KARENZA MOORELecturer in Criminology at Lancaster University, UK LUCIANA PARISIConveys the MA Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmith, University of London, UK MICHAELA QADRAROPh.D. student of at the Università degli Studi di Napoli 'L'Orientale', Naples, Italy TOBIAS RAUN Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University, Denmark JULIA RONEResearcher at the Department of Theory and History of Culture, University of Sofia, Bulgaria EUGÉNIE SHINKLESenior Lecturer in Photographic Theory and Criticism at the University of Westminster, UK MIHIRINI SIRISENAPh.D. candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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