Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change

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.

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.