Affective fabrics of digital cultures: feelings,technologies, politics, 3-4 June 2010
Organised by Adi Kuntsman (RICC, The University of Manchester)
This two-day international conference, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, brought into creative tension two fields that are receiving growing scholarly attention: cultural studies of affect, public feelings and the politics of emotion, on the one hand, and scholarship on digital culture, new media and information-communication technologies, on the other. A vibrant and intense two-day encounter between scholars from different disciplines and subjects, the conference centered around the following questions: How does affect work in on-line networks and digital assemblages? What are the affective regimes of on-line sociality and of digital media use? What kind of objects and subjects circulate in and shape contemporary digital cultures? What are the structures of feeling that operate in our everyday digital life ? How do digital media shape our everyday experiences and political horizons of love, boredom, fear, anxiety, embarrassment, hate, hope?
Conference programme Conference poster Original Call for Papers (now closed) Welcome Address
Presentations and selected papers from the conference are now available to view and download.Plenary Presentations (slides and audio)
Conference Papers & Presentations
Smiljana Antonijevic, Stefan Dormans & Sally Wyatt. 'Affect it, digitize it, explore it: Affective labour and digital technologies in scholarly collaboration' presentation
Daniel Ashton. 'From bedroom to beyond: Identifying (with) industry tools and technologies' presentation
Mark Coté. 'The (Non)Local Body: A Transductive Measure of Affect?' paper
Michael Goddard. 'It really makes you sick!: Digital Affective Pathologies and How to Resist Them' paper
Jette Kofoed and Jessica Ringrose. 'Displaced and fixed affects: Re-thinking the meanings of sexualised cyberbullying among teenagers' paper and presentation
Adi Kuntsman. 'Digital archives of feelings: affective politics of wartime photoblogging' paper
Amparo Lasén. 'The changes in embarrassment revealed by new media practices' presentation
Kerstin Leder and co-authors. 'Touching Tales: Emotion in Digital Object Memories' presentation
Alessandra Micalizzi. 'Collective tragedy and digital emotions: The earthquake in Abruzzo “lived” on Facebook' paper and presentation
Karenza Moore. 'Digital Affect and Clubbing Cultures: Reflection, anticipation, counter-reaction' presentation
Jussi Parikka. 'Does Software have Affects, or, What Can a Digital Body of Code Do?' Published as Parikka, Jussi (2010) "Ethologies of Software Art: What Can a Digital Body of Code Do?" In Simon O'Sullivan and Stephen Zepke (Eds.) Deleuze and Contemporary Art. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Stamatia Portanova. 'Seeing Red' paper and presentation
Michaela Quadraro. 'Digital Aesthetics and Affective Politics: Isaac Julien’s Audio-Visual Installations'presentation
Elisabetta Risi. 'Emerging Resentment in Social Networking Websites: Feelings (re)production from the physical to the virtual square'. presentation
Eugénie Shinkle. 'Videogames and the Technological Sublime'. forthcoming in Tate Papers (Tate's online research journal)
Mihirini Sirisena. 'Virtually yours – reflecting on the place of mobile phones in romantic relationships' presentation
Jenny Sundén. '‘She’s a little battleaxe you know the type’: A queer note on games and affect'. Published as: Sundén, Jenny (2010). "A Sense of Play: Affect, Emotion, and Embodiment in World of Warcraft". In Marianne Liljeström and Susanna Paasonen (eds.) Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing Differences. London: Routledge.