Digital Feeling
Description
This book offers a trailblazing account of postfeminist sensibility as a digital feeling that shapes how we understand the world around us. It explores how we feel in a world where the digital has become intertwined with our intimate relationships to ourselves and to others. The book develops a novel approach that draws on feminist theories of affect, emotion, and structures of feeling, to analyse the entanglements of the digital and the non-digital, and the public and the private, and to show how good feeling shapes a contemporary moment that often leads us back to normativity and reproduces systemic inequality. This is achieved through several different digital media spheres, including: the Instagram account Barbie Savior, #fitspo content, TikTok influencers and their Get Ready With Me videos, the archive of hot men on TubeCrush, and the intimacies of the internet cat, suggesting that each offers a snapshot of our current emotional landscapes.
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"This excellent book navigates through the ever-changing media landscape to understand postfeminism as a structure of feeling in a digital context. The impressive range of chapters theorize the contemporary affective and emotional postfeminist conjuncture, from social media to labour to bodies and intimate publics. This is a must-read for all in feminist media studies!" (Sarah Banet-Weiser, Distinguished Professor, Annenberg University of Pennsylvania and Southern California)"Postfeminism meets structures of feeling in this brilliant, original and readable book. Adrienne Evans and Sarah Riley have done it again. Not only do they elaborate a new concept of digital feeling, but they also work through numerous fascinating and up-to-date case studies from #fitspo to TubeCrush. I can't wait to recommend this book to my students!" (Rosalind Gill, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, University of London)
"Adrienne Evans and Sarah Riley engage deeply with theories of affect, gender, and culture, to provide a nuanced account of digital media. They discuss fascinating examples to illuminate new gendered "structures of feeling". This book will be of great value to students and scholars of digital culture and feminism." (Amy Shields Dobson, Senior Lecturer in Digital and Social Media, Curtin University)
" Digital Feeling is innovative, theoretically rich and timely. This book takes scholarship on postfeminist media cultures into new directions by considering postfeminism as a structure of feeling. Using diverse and engaging case studies, this book taps into a digital culture that is highly oriented towards feelings, vibes and moods." (Clare Southerton, Lecturer in Digital Technology and Pedagogy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)More details
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Persons
Adrienne Evans is Reader in Media in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University, where she leads the Postdigital Intimacies research theme. Her research draws on feminist cultural theory to understand personal, social, intimate, and cultural relationships, as well as their manifestations in digital culture.
Sarah Riley is a Professor in Critical Health Psychology at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the director of its Health Psychology Master's programme. Her research examines discourse, affect, and materiality in relation to digital technology, subjectivity, gender, bodies, and neoliberalism.
Content
1. Postfeminist Sensibility as a Structure of Feeling.- 2. Gender, Race, Nation. and Barbie Savior.- 3. Sweat Is Just Fat Crying.- 4. Making-Up Enterprising Selves.- 5. Hot Men on the Commute.- 6. Cute! Cats! Intimacies of the Internet.- 7. Epilogue: Digital Feeling.
