Affect and Social Media

Tony D. Sampson is reader in digital culture and communications at the University of East London. He is a cofounder of Club Critical Theory: Southend and director of the EmotionUX Lab at UEL.Darren Ellis CPsychol is a senior lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London. He completed a PhD in social psychology at Loughborough University. His research has focused on conceptualising emotion and affect in a variety of empirical settings, such as through everyday surveillance, stop and search practices, social media, and acts of self-disclosure. Stephen Maddison is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of Research in the School of Arts and Digital Industries at the University of East London. He is a co-director of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research at UEL (http://culturalstudiesresearch.org/). His research addresses questions of sexuality and gender, cultural politics and popular culture.

• Foreword by Gregory J. SeigworthIntroduction: On Affect, Social Media and Criticality by Tony D. Sampson, Darren Ellis and Stephen MaddisonPart I: Digital EmotionIntroduction to Part I by Helen Powell1 Social Media, Emoticons and Process by Darren Ellis2 Anticipating Affect: Trigger Warnings in a Mental Health Social Media Site by Lewis Goodings3 Digitally Mediated Emotion: Simondon, Affectivity and Individuation by Ian Tucker4 Visceral Data by Luke Stark5 Psychophysiological Measures Associated with Affective States while Using Social Media by Maurizio MauriPart II: Mediated Connectivities, Immediacies & IntensitiesIntroduction to Part II by Jussi Parikka6 Social Media and the Materialisation of the Affective Present by Rebecca Coleman7 The Education of Feeling: Wearable Technology and Triggering Pedagogies by Alyssa D. Niccolini8 Mediated Affect and Feminist Solidarity: Teens Using Twitter to Challenge “Rape Culture” in and Around School by Jessica Ringrose and Kaitlynn MendesPar

Affect and Social Media: Emotion, Mediation, Anxiety and Contagion, edited by Tony Sampson, Stephen Maddison, and Darren Ellis, brings together theorists and researchers who offer different perspectives on the ways in which affect shows up in social media, from the boredom at the heart of continual engagement with Facebook to the affective shaping of data and how that interrupts everyday life through wearable technologies. . . . What is evident in the works reviewed is the richness of discussion that emerges in bringing these other fields under the lens of affect.