Affective Publics

Sentiment, Technology, and Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID23398657
AuthorsZizi Papacharissi (0000-0001-7301-4620, corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages160
Publication date2014-12-03
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byAffective publics: Sentiment, technology, and politics, Marc Perelló-Sobrepere, 2017
VenueAffective publics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199999736.001.0001
OpenAlexW905961703
Open LibraryOL27172369M
ISBN9780199999736
LanguageEN
Citations received1.111

"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"

Affect (linguistics) · Index (typography) · Mainstream · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Publics · Sociology · World Wide Web · Communication · Computer Science · Law · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · 2010 · Arab Spring · General · Occupy movement · Online social networks · Political aspects · Political participation · Political Process · Protest movements · Social media · Technological innovations · Twitter

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