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Affect and social media: Emotion, mediation, anxiety and contagion

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Contributors

Tony D. Sampson
Editor

Stephen Maddison
Editor

Abstract

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.

Citation

Sampson, T. D., Maddison, S., & Ellis, D. (Eds.). (2018). Affect and social media: Emotion, mediation, anxiety and contagion. London: Rowman & Littlefield

Book Type Edited Book
Publication Date Jul 27, 2018
Deposit Date Feb 7, 2023
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Series Title Radical Cultural Studies
Edition 1st
ISBN 978-1-78660-438-5; 978-1-78660-439-2
Keywords Affect; Emotion; mediation; anxiety; social media
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10336841
Publisher URL https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786604385/Affect-and-Social-Media-Emotion-Mediation-Anxiety-and-Contagion

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