Affective Transformations: Politics - Algorithms - Media
Abstract: 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
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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9783957961662
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Online-Ressource, 243 S.
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
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Psychologie
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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2020
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Veröffentlichung
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Lüneburg
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meson press
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2020
- Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
- DOI
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10.14619/1655
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022081607243249360788
- Rechteinformation
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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25.03.2025, 13:45 MEZ
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Beteiligte
- Bösel, Bernd
- Wiemer, Serjoscha
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
- meson press
Entstanden
- 2020