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oapen-20.500.12657-500002021-07-14T00:57:38Z Affective Transformations Bösel, Bernd Wiemer, Serjoscha Nonbooks, PBS / Medien, Kommunikation/Medienwissenschaft Medienwissenschaften: Internet, digitale Medien und Gesellschaft Psychologie Algorithmen Medien Politik Ästhetik Demokratie Social Media Affekt Populismus Emotion Philosophie Politikwissenschaft Politisches System: Demokratie Wissenschaft, Technologie und Gesellschaft Psychologie: Emotionen bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies The Affective Turn has lost its former innocence and euphoria. Affect Studies and its adjacent disciplines have now to prove that they can cope with the return of the affective real that technology, economy, and politics entail. Two seemingly contradictory developments serve as starting points for this volume. First, technological innovations such as affective computing, mood tracking, sentiment analysis, and social robotics all share a focus on the recognition and modulation of human affectivity. Affect gets measured, calculated, controlled. Secondly, recent developments in politics, social media usage, and right-wing journalism have contributed to a conspicuous rise of hate speech, cybermobbing, public shaming, “felt truths,” and resentful populisms. In a very specific way, politics as well as power have become affective. Affect gets mobilized, fomented, unleashed. When the ways we deal with our affectivity get unsettled in such a dramatic fashion, we have to rethink our ethical, aesthetical, political as well as legal regimes of affect organization. 2021-07-13T14:01:44Z 2021-07-13T14:01:44Z 2020 book ONIX_20210713_9783957961662_12 9783957961662 9783957961655 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50000 eng application/pdf Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 9783957961662.pdf meson press 10.14619/1655 10.14619/1655 4d4a8ec1-ecfe-4e5c-bc76-d4ece9897968 9783957961662 9783957961655 ScholarLed 243 open access
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The Affective Turn has lost its former innocence and euphoria. Affect Studies and its adjacent disciplines have now to prove that they can cope with the return of the affective real that technology, economy, and politics entail. Two seemingly contradictory developments serve as starting points for this volume. First, technological innovations such as affective computing, mood tracking, sentiment analysis, and social robotics all share a focus on the recognition and modulation of human affectivity. Affect gets measured, calculated, controlled. Secondly, recent developments in politics, social media usage, and right-wing journalism have contributed to a conspicuous rise of hate speech, cybermobbing, public shaming, “felt truths,” and resentful populisms. In a very specific way, politics as well as power have become affective. Affect gets mobilized, fomented, unleashed. When the ways we deal with our affectivity get unsettled in such a dramatic fashion, we have to rethink our ethical, aesthetical, political as well as legal regimes of affect organization.
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