Research Catalog

Title

Affective publics : sentiment, technology, and politics / Zizi Papacharissi.

Author

Papacharissi, Zizi

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

x, 160 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Over the past few decades, we have witnessed the growth of movements using digital means to connect with broader interest groups and express their points of view. These movements emerge out of distinct contexts and yield different outcomes, but tend to share one thing in common: online and offline solidarity shaped around the public display of emotion. Social media facilitate feelings of engagement, in ways that frequently make people feel re-energized about politics. In doing so, media do not make or break revolutions but they do lend emerging, storytelling publics their own means for feeling their way into events, frequently by making those involved a part of the developing story. Technologies network us but it is our stories that connect us to each other, making us feel close to some and distancing us from others. Affective Publics explores how storytelling practices facilitate engagement among movements tuning into a current issue or event by employing three case studies: Arab Spring movements, various iterations of Occupy, and everyday casual political expressions as traced through the archives of trending topics on Twitter. It traces how affective publics materialize and disband around connective conduits of sentiment every day and find their voice through the soft structures of feeling sustained by societies. Using original quantitative and qualitative data, Affective Publics demonstrates, in this groundbreaking analysis, that it is through these soft structures that affective publics connect, disrupt, and feel their way into everyday politics"--

Series Statement

Oxford studies in digital politics

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in digital politics.

Subjects

• Twitter
• Occupy movement
• Online social networks > Political aspects
• Arab Spring, 2010-
• Social media > Political aspects
• Political participation > Technological innovations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- Chapter One: The Present Affect -- Chapter Two: Affective News and Networked Publics -- Chapter Three: Affective Demands and the New Political -- Chapter Four: The Personal as Political: Everyday Disruptions of the Political Mainstream -- Chapter Five: Affective Publics -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 15-652

ISBN

• 9780199999736
• 0199999732
• 9780199999743
• 0199999740

LCCN

• 2014019484
• 40024336479

OCLC

889521748

Author

Papacharissi, Zizi, author.

Title

Affective publics : sentiment, technology, and politics / Zizi Papacharissi.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford studies in digital politics

Oxford studies in digital politics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40024336479

Research Call Number

JFE 15-652