Carsten Stage

Britta Timm Knudsen

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.

Politicizing Bodily Vulnerability

Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect

Skam gor os ilde tilpas. Sa snart vi foler os negativt bedomt, pibler sveden frem, rodmen stiger op i kinderne, og vi kigger febrilsk efter et musehul at krybe i. Heldigvis ser andre mennesker os ikke nodvendigvis sadan, som vi frygter. Alligevel er der ifolge Carsten Stage, blufAerdig skamforsker ved Aarhus Universitet, ingen grund til at bide hovedet af al skam. Skam kan vAere en konstruktiv kilde til selvrefleksion og endda til politisk mobilisering. For uden nogen skam i livet ville vi ikke slet ikke kunne finde ud af at leve sammen.

Skam

Tina Thode Hougaard

This book investigates the language created in Facebook groups that relate shared experiences of illness, dying and mourning. It develops a theoretical and analytical framework for understanding the use and rhythms of emojis, interjections and other forms of “intensive” writing in social media of this kind.

An Affective Approach

The Language of Illness and Death on Social Media

This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media. Through a range of case studies, it shows that a new type of entrepreneurial cancer narrative is currently evolving. This narrative is characterised by using illness to build projects and produce various forms of economic and social value, to stimulate affectively involved and large-scale public participation and to communicate across various social media platforms. Networked cancer: Affect, Narrative and Measurement offers a theoretical framework for understanding this entrepreneurial cancer narrative through an introduction focusing on the key concepts of illness narrative, social media and affect. The chapters examine the importance of connective mobilization, virality, experimental selfies, dark affects and new commemorative practices for understanding entrepreneurial cancer narratives. This study will be of great interest to scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as those interested in narrative medicine, health communication and affect and participation.

Affect, Narrative and Measurement

Networked Cancer

Om den rolle, som avisartikler, tv-nyheder og dokumentarfilm spillede undervejs, og om hvordan de nationale medier er medskabere af vores identitet som danskere, hvor "muslim" er den identitetskategori, som "det danske" sættes i forhold til.

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