Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion

Feelings, Affect and Technological Change

  • Athina Karatzogianni
  • Adi Kuntsman
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Table of contents

  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

  5. Virtual Intimacies

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 145-145
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    2. White Collar Intimacy
      Melissa Gregg
      Pages 147-164
    3. DIY Therapy: Exploring Affective Self-Representations in Trans Video Blogs on YouTube
      Tobias Raun
      Pages 165-180
    4. Virtually Yours: Reflecting on the Place of Mobile Phones in Romantic Relationships
      Mihirini Sirisena
      Pages 181-193

  6. Feelings, Technologies, Politics

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 195-195
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    2. Symptomologies of the State: Cuba’s ‘Email War’ and the Paranoid Public Sphere
      Laura-Zoë Humphreys
      Pages 197-213
    3. The Seducer’s Net: Internet, Politics and Seduction
      Julia Rone
      Pages 214-229
    4. Digital Aesthetics and Affective Politics: Isaac Julien’s Audiovisual Installations
      Michaela Quadraro
      Pages 230-244
    5. Epilogue: The Politics of the Affective Digital
      Athina Karatzogianni
      Pages 245-249

About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

emotion feelings Internet media New Media video

Editors and affiliations

  • Athina Karatzogianni
    • 1
  • Adi Kuntsman
    • 2
  1. 1.University of HullUK
  2. 2.The University of ManchesterUK

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