[Commlist] Stimulating Media: Cognitive and Sensory Approaches — Media Theory special issue published

We are delighted to announce the publication of the latest special issue 
of MEDIA THEORY:

STIMULATING MEDIA: COGNITIVE AND SENSORY APPROACHES
Vol. 10, No. 1 (2026)
Edited by Tony Sampson, Jernej Markelj and Diana Lengua


The full issue is now available open access here:
https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/issue/view/54

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
- On Modes of (Over)Stimulation — Tony D. Sampson, Jernej Markelj, Diana 
Lengua

Articles
- Copium Compendium: How Do You Cope in this Digital Age of Permacrisis? 
— Geert Lovink
- Internet Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Anaesthetic Media, from Brain 
Rot to Lobotomycore — Tina Kendall
- The Masculine Urge to Rawdog Life: Male Paranoia and the Gendering of 
Digital Detox — Jernej Markelj, Jakko Kemper
- ASMR NPC: On Streaming Video and Digital Possession — Malcolm Ogden
- Digital Reset: Critical and Creative Interventions to Rewire 
Sense-Making — Ganaele Langlois, Rory Sharp, Craig Fahner, Alexandra 
Juhasz, Ioana Jucan, Roopa Vasudevan
- They're Eating the Pets: Social Media Platforms & the Stimulation of 
Franchised Laughter — Theresa M. Senft, Christopher John Müller, 
Benjamin Nickl
- Countering Chaotic Hyperstimulation with Noise: From the Chaotic 
Post-cinematic Condition to Flicker, Strobes and Drones — Michael N. Goddard
- Keep Computer Awake: Mouse Jigglers and the Technicity of Attention — 
Nick Seaver
- Presence Without Consciousness: Media, Machines, and the Metaphysics 
of Synthetic Experience — Diana Lengua

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