Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect - Politicizing Bodily Vulnerability

List of contents

Introduction 1. Illness Blogs and Online Crowding 2. Global Assemblages of Suffering and Protest 3. Charity, Seduction, and Productive Publics 4. Green Activist Bodies and the Sublime 5. War Commemoration and Affective Media Rhythms 6. Media Witnessing from Chora Epilogue

About the author

Britta Timm Knudsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Aesthetics and Communication at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her previous books include Enterprising Initiatives in the Experience Economy (co-ed, Routledge 2014), Re-investing Authenticity, Tourism, Place and Emotions (co-ed, 2009).
Carsten Stage is Associate Professor in the Department of Aesthetics and Communication, ARTS at Aarhus University, Denmark. His previous publications include "Online a-liveness" in Mediating and Re-Mediating Death (2014) and "Contagious bodies" (co-authored with Knudsen) in Emotion, Space and Society. He is co-editor of Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation.

Product details

• Authors: Britta Timm Knudsen, Britta Timm (Aarhus University Knudsen, Carsten Stage, Stage Carsten
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2014
• EAN: 9781138019065
• ISBN: 978-1-138-01906-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, The arts: general issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, COMPUTERS / Internet / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, COMPUTERS / Web / General, Theatre Studies, Political structure & processes, Humanities, Political campaigning & advertising, Gender studies, gender groups, Performance Art, Political campaigning and advertising, Political structure and processes, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / General, The arts: general topics