[ecrea] CFP: Media and Emotions

*Open Cultural Studies*

New Peer-Reviewed Journal by De Gruyter Open


CFP:*Media and Emotions. The New Frontiers of Affect in Digital Culture* 
(Special Issue)

Editors:*Professor Toby Miller* (UC Riverside, USA), *Dr. Anna 
Malinowska*(University of Silesia, Poland)

The intervention of digitalism and the new media into “a whole way of 
life” (Williams 1960) has had a significant effect on human emotions and 
the ways we express and experience feelings in daily interaction. 
Changes in communication patterns have gestated new manners of conduct, 
visible in phenomena such as virtual love, cyber touching or digital 
kissing [the latter carried out by means of emojis or, more recently, 
with the use of KISSENGER – a real-time internet kiss interface for 
mobiles to be introduced to mass markets in two years or so (Zhang, 
Nishiguchi, Cheok, Morisawa 2016)].

There has been a suspension between new and old modalities of life, 
marked by constant oscillation between the virtual and the real, the 
tangible and the intangible, the haptic and the sensory. These new 
modalities point to a change in the cultural condition which, associated 
with liquefaction (Bauman 2003, 2005), connects to the rise of new forms 
of solidity that uncover new capacities and affordance for our emotional 
selves.

The focus of this special issue is the new media and emotion, analyzed 
in relation to changing life environments and human emotional 
interactions. We invite papers that will re-examine the relationship 
between new media forms, media-ridden realities, and emotional 
structures (interactions, reactions, affordances etc.) with respect to 
cultural processes examined from a myriad of scholarly perspectives and 
methodological approaches.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

·Feelings and the (post)-Anthropocene: emotional interactions between 
human beings, the natural environment, and non-human technologies

·Changes of emotional practice / perception: new sensory dimensions and 
bodily reactions (non-contact interactions etc.)

·Emotions as objects expressed in new technologies

·Affective experiences with the new media

·Technologies of emotions / emotions in technologies

·Emotional labor and the service industries, from goldmining on-line 
games to virtual sex work

·The commodification and governance of feelings

·The relationship between affect theory, phenomenology, and the 
psy-function (psychoanalysis, psychology, and psychopharmacology)

·How media-effects models construct the relationship between new media 
and emotion

·The use of feelings discourse in journalism, political communication, 
and social conflicts

Proposals of 500 words followed by a short bio, listing qualifications 
and publications, should be submitted to (tobym69 /at/ icloud.com) 
<mailto:(tobym69 /at/ icloud.com)> and (a.h.malinowska /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(a.h.malinowska /at/ gmail.com)> by 30 March 2017.

References:

Baumann, Z (2003) /Liquid Love. On the Frailty of Human Bonds/, 
Cambridge: Polity Press.

Baumann, Z (2005) /Liquid Life/, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Williams, R (1960) /Culture and Society/, New York: Anchor.

Zhang E, Nishiguchi S, Cheok A, Morisawa Y (2016) Kissenger – 
Development of a Real-Time Internet Kiss Communication Interface for 
Mobile Phones, conference presentation at /Love and Sex with Robots/, 
Goldsmiths, University of London.

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