[ecrea] New book: global media, biopolitics and affect: politicizing bodily vulnerability

NEW BOOK in the Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture series
GLOBAL MEDIA, BIOPOLITICS AND AFFECT: POLITICIZING BODILY VULNERABILITY
By Britta Timm Knudsen (Associate Professor, Aarhus University) and 
Carsten Stage (Associate Professor, Aarhus University)

Book description: Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect shows how 
mediations of bodily vulnerability have become a strong political force 
in contemporary societies. In discussions and struggles concerning war 
involvement, healthcare issues, charity, democracy movements, contested 
national pasts, and climate change, performances of bodily vulnerability 
is increasingly used by citizens to raise awareness, create sympathy, 
encourage political action, and to circulate information in global media 
networks. The book thus argues that bodily vulnerability can serve as a 
catalyst for affectively charging and disseminating particular political 
events or issues by means of media. To investigate how, when and why 
that happens, and to evaluate the long-term social impacts of mediating 
bodily vulnerability, the book offers a theoretical framework for 
understanding the role of bodily vulnerability in contemporary digital 
media culture. Likewise, it presents a range of close empirical case 
studies in the areas of illness blogging, global protests after the 
killing of Neda Agda Soltan in Iran, charity communication, green media 
activism, online war commemoration and digital witnessing related to 
conflicts in Sarajevo and Ukraine.

http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9781138019065/

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Carsten Stage
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Dep. of Aesthetics and Communication
Aarhus University, Denmark
Nobelparken (1485/538), Jens Chr Skous Vej 2
8000 Aarhus - Denmark
+45 871 63175 / + 45 21931266

// Website
http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/persons/carsten-stage(143c9f12-b105-49f0-99e5-3d3a3dae7006).html

// Co-editor of Conjunctions: Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural 
Participation
www.conjunctions-tjcp.com

// Forthcoming edited collection
Affective methodologies (co-ed, 2015)

// Recent books
Global media, biopolitics and affect. Politicizing Bodily Vulnerability 
(2014)
http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9781138019065/
Fiktionalitet (2013)
http://samfundslitteratur.dk/bog/fiktionalitet
Tegningekrisen (2011)
http://unipress.dk/udgivelser/t/tegningekrisen/















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