[ecrea] CfP : Emotional Publics and Political Feelings in Participatory Media

*Call for Papers*



*Emotional Publics and Political Feelings in Participatory Media*

*6 July 2017, University of Amsterdam*


Organised by the research group “
*Participatory Cultures: *

*post-socialist new media cultures*” (UvA)

Supported by ARTES and SPIN, UvA



*Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2017 *



*Keynote speakers: *


*Dr. Joke Hermes, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Department of Media and
Culture *

*Prof. Dr. Joep Leerssen, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Department of
European Studies*



The workshop “Emotional Publics and Political Feelings in Participatory
Media” aims to bring together scholars whose research considers the role of
emotions in the performance and articulation of political identities in the
participatory spaces of everyday media.



The pervasiveness of media, the ‘everydayness’ that stems from their
accessibility, has dramatically changed the scope, the scale, and the
nature of political participation. Placing such everyday media in focus,
this workshop will be a platform for work on emotional citizenship, or the
emotional and affective articulation of belonging to a larger group such as
(but not limited to) the nation.


Much of the articulation of political subjectivity in everyday media, in
the form of audience call-ins, micro-blogs, or tweets and social
networking, is pervaded with emotion. These spaces, usually not regarded as
political, involve affective participation more often than ‘rational’
debate. This affective participation bears tremendous significance as the
routine political talk that sustains democracies.



We therefore encourage workshop papers to focus on participatory media as a
cultural space that *mediatises* emotions in these acts of everyday
politics. The acknowledgement that communities are bound together by
emotional ties and emotional vocabularies compels us to consider at what
point these communities can be said to constitute ‘publics.’ What forms of
engagement, conversations, or interactions can be considered political, and
what makes social networks, fan communities, or twitter communities
‘publics’? We expect contributions to address the dynamic between online
and offline engagement in this regard. We also invite our participants to
think about how emotions render the personal political in all such
instances, and how they affect styles of political interaction and
engagement. What kinds of topics and issues of common interest become
rallying points for people’s participation, and what vocabularies and
discursive tools become available to them?


We welcome papers that are concerned with both West and East Europe, and
would be equally open to papers on the transnational nature of
participatory media and their role in fostering cosmopolitan emotions and
political participation.



Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes.



We intend to publish selected workshop papers in book form.



Please submit an abstract of no longer than *250 words* which includes your
name and institutional affiliation to (politicalfeelingsworkshop /at/ gmail.com)
(organisers: Sudha Rajagopalan and Krisztina Lajosi-Moore).



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