[ecrea] Call for paper: Affect, Politics, Social Media

Call for papers: Affect, Politics, Social Media

In prolongation of Affect and Social Media #3 /Conjunctions: 
Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation /welcomes proposals 
that  interpret and explore affective and emotional encounters with 
social media and the ways in which the interfaces of social media in 
return modulate affectivity. Fake news have come to be a highly debated 
framework to understand the consequences of the entanglements of affect, 
politics and social media. But theories on fake news often fail to grasp 
the consequences and significance of social media content that are not 
necessarily fake, but are merely intended to affectively intensify 
certain political positions.

It is in this context that it becomes crucial to understand the role of 
affect in relation to the ways in which social media interfaces 
function, how affective relations are altered on social media and not 
least how politics is transformed in the attempt to capitalize on the 
affective relations and intensities potentially fostered on social media.

This special issue invites empirical, theoretical and practical 
contributions that focus on recent (political) media events - such as 
Brexit, the US and French elections and the refugee crisis - and how 
these unfolded on, and are informed by, social media. Proposals might, 
for instance, address how the Trump campaign allows us to develop a new 
understanding of the relationship between social media and politics. As 
such the issue seeks papers that develop new understandings of affective 
politics and take into account shared experiences, affective 
intensities, emotional engagements and new entanglements with social media.


For more information, including author guidelines, please visit 
http://www.conjunctions-tjcp.com/

Deadline 28 November 2017
Articles must be submitted to (conjunctions /at/ cc.au.dk) 
<mailto:(conjunctions /at/ cc.au.dk)>


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