[ecrea] New book: Affect and Social Media

Very pleased to say that our new A&SM book is published today. See the 
reviews and contents below.


  Affect and Social Media


    Emotion, Mediation, Anxiety and Contagion


      Edited by Tony D Sampson, Stephen Maddison, and Darren Ellis


        Part of the series Radical Cultural Studies


        Publication Date: Jul 2018 (today!)

<https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/affect_and_social_media/3-156-e43f234f-a8c8-418f-be9a-52e1d465e53b>


    *Reviews*

Social media play an outsized role in our emotional lives. They 
continually modulate our moods and feelings. They transmit vague 
sensations that run through us like an infection or contagion. In order 
to take the measure of social media today, the essays in this volume 
combine empirical research with far-ranging speculation, offering us 
analyses that are at once surprising and disturbingly familiar.

Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University

Sampson, Ellis and Maddison’s collection is crucial to any understanding 
of contemporary digital culture. Bringing together many directions of 
affect theory, theorising across a radical plurality of sites, they 
skilfully hold on to a vital coherence through critical affect studies 
inspired by feminist and queer theory and by core contributors in the 
field (e.g. Clough, Gregg, Seigworth, Paasonen).

Kate O’Riordan, Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Sussex

This is a thought-provoking, occasionally scary, and thoroughly 
fascinating exploration into the complex networked intensities within 
which we operate. Spanning from pedagogy to pornography, and beyond, it 
comes with an international focus and a profoundly interdisciplinary 
analytical range that make it recommended reading for all interested in 
understanding the key role that social media plays is contemporary culture.

Susanna Paasonen, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku


    *Contents*

Foreword by Gregory J. Seigworth xi


Introduction: On Affect, Social Media and Criticality by Tony D. 
Sampson, Darren Ellis and Stephen Maddison 1


*Part I: Digital Emotion*

Introduction to Part I by Helen Powell 13


1 Social Media, Emoticons and Process by Darren Ellis 18

2 Anticipating Affect: Trigger Warnings in a Mental Health Social Media 
Site by Lewis Goodings 26

3 Digitally Mediated Emotion: Simondon, Affectivity and Individuation by 
Ian Tucker 35

4 Visceral Data by Luke Stark 42

5 Psychophysiological Measures Associated with Affective States while 
Using Social Media by Maurizio Mauri 52


*Part II: Mediated Connectivities, Immediacies & Intensities*

Introduction to Part II by Jussi Parikka 65


6 Social Media and the Materialisation of the Affective Present by 
Rebecca Coleman 67

7 The Education of Feeling: Wearable Technology and Triggering 
Pedagogies by Alyssa D. Niccolini 76

8 Mediated Affect and Feminist Solidarity: Teens Using Twitter to 
Challenge “Rape Culture” in and Around School by Jessica Ringrose and 
Kaitlynn Mendes 85


*Part III: Insecurity and Anxiety *

Introduction to Part III by Darren Ellis and Stephen Maddison 99


9 Wupocalypse Now: Supertrolls and Other Risk Anxieties in Social Media 
Interactions by Greg Singh 101

10 Becoming User in Popular Culture by Zara Dinnen 113

11 YouTubeanxiety: Affect and Anxiety performance in UK Beauty vlogging 
by Sophie Bishop 122

12 Chemsex: Anatomy of a Sex Panic by Jamie Hakim 131

13 Designing Life? Affect and Gay Porn by Stephen Maddison 141


*Part IV: Contagion: Image, Work, Politics and Control *

Introduction to Part IV by Tony D. Sampson 153


14 The Mask of Ebola: Fear, Contagion, and Immunity by Yig ˘it Soncul 157

15 The Newsroom is No Longer a Safe Zone: Assessing the Affective Impact 
of Graphic User-generated Images on Journalists Working with Social 
Media by Stephen Jukes 168

16 Emotions, Social Media Communication and TV Debates by Morgane 
Kimmich 178

17 The Failed Utopias of Walden and Walden Two by Robert Wright 188


Index 199


About the Contributors 203


Don’t forget to take part in our A&SM#4 conference and book launch in 
Nov at UEL (information and cfp here 
<https://viralcontagion.blog/affect-social-media4/>)


The book will also be available at the forthcoming Capacious conference 
<http://capaciousjournal.com/conference/> in August in Lancaster PA, USA.


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