Global media, biopolitics, and affect : politicizing bodily vulnerability /

Global media, biopolitics, and affect : politicizing bodily vulnerability /

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Author / Creator:	Timm Knudsen, Britta.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
Description:	166 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 27 Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 27
Subject:	Human body in mass media. Human body -- Political aspects. Mass media -- Political aspects. Communication in politics -- Technological innovations. Biopolitics. Biopolitics. Human body in mass media. Human body -- Political aspects. Mass media -- Political aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10308012

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Other authors / contributors:	Stage, Carsten.
ISBN:	9781138019065 (hardback) 1138019062 (hardback) 9781315779171 (ebk)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect shows how mediations of bodily vulnerability have become a strong political force in contemporary societies. In discussions and struggles concerning war involvement, healthcare issues, charity, democracy movements, contested national pasts, and climate change, performances of bodily vulnerability is increasingly used by citizens to raise awareness, create sympathy, encourage political action, and to circulate information in global media networks. The book thus argues that bodily vulnerability can serve as a catalyst for affectively charging and disseminating particular political events or issues by means of media. To investigate how, when and why that happens, and to evaluate the long-term social impacts of mediating bodily vulnerability, the book offers a theoretical framework for understanding the role of bodily vulnerability in contemporary digital media culture. Likewise, it presents a range of close empirical case studies in the areas of illness blogging, global protests after the killing of Neda Agda Soltan in Iran, charity communication, green media activism, online war commemoration and digital witnessing related to conflicts in Sarajevo and Ukraine"--

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Call Number:	P96.B64T56 2014
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