Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect
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Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect

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Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect

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Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect shows how mediations of bodily vulnerability have become a strong political force in contemporary societies. In discussions and struggles concerning war involvement, healthcare issues, charity, democracy movements, contested national pasts, and climate change, performances of bodily vulnerability is increasingly used by citizens to raise awareness, create sympathy, encourage political action, and to circulate information in global media networks. The book thus argues that bodily vulnerability can serve as a catalyst for affectively charging and disseminating particular political events or issues by means of media. To investigate how, when and why that happens, and to evaluate the long-term social impacts of mediating bodily vulnerability, the book offers a theoretical framework for understanding the role of bodily vulnerability in contemporary digital media culture. Likewise, it presents a range of close empirical case studies in the areas of illness blogging, global protests after the killing of Neda Agda Soltan in Iran, charity communication, green media activism, online war commemoration and digital witnessing related to conflicts in Sarajevo and Ukraine.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
9781317698678
Edition
1
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Web Development
Index
Computer Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: Politicising Bodily Vulnerability
  8. 1 Illness Blogs and Online Crowding
  9. 2 Global Assemblages of Suffering and Protest
  10. 3 Charity, Seduction, and Productive Publics
  11. 4 Green Activist Bodies and the Sublime
  12. 5 War Commemoration and Affective Media Rhythms
  13. 6 Media Witnessing from Chora
  14. Epilogue: Vulnerable Power
  15. Index