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

Mon Jan 19 20:47:23 GMT 2015




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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