AFFECT AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Affect and Social Media is an edited collection of twenty bite sized articles by leading scholars from across disciplinary boundaries It is comprised of four distinct but related sections which are interspersed with artistic illustrations depicting the affectivities that flow through social media The term 39affect39 denotes a rather slippery concept that is not as easily caught as for example 39emotion39 or 39feeling39 Quite often it denotes a more than or an excess to that which is felt in the human body or indexed through cultural grids of meaning It can exist in ways which defy expectations conventions and representations It is often understood as that which is vital to the emergence of the new and hence sociocultural revolution As life shifts ever more online we find ourselves caught up in the affective flows of computer mediated practices into an ever expanding and indeterminate horizon This compilation of articles that were initially presented at an international conference in East London were selected on the basis of their ability to depict and conceptualise these radical movements of sociality