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010 _a 2014019484
020 _a9780199999736 (hardback)
020 _a9780199999743 (paperback)
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_beng
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_dDLC
050 0 0 _aJF799.5
_b.P37 2015
082 0 0 _a323.042
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100 1 _aPapacharissi, Zizi.
245 1 0 _aAffective publics :
_bsentiment, technology, and politics /
_cZizi Papacharissi.
264 1 _aOxford ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bOxford University Press,
_c[2015].
300 _ax, 160 pages ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
520 _a"Over the past few decades, we have witnessed the growth of movements using digital means to connect with broader interest groups and express their points of view. These movements emerge out of distinct contexts and yield different outcomes, but tend to share one thing in common: online and offline solidarity shaped around the public display of emotion. Social media facilitate feelings of engagement, in ways that frequently make people feel re-energized about politics. In doing so, media do not make or break revolutions but they do lend emerging, storytelling publics their own means for feeling their way into events, frequently by making those involved a part of the developing story. Technologies network us but it is our stories that connect us to each other, making us feel close to some and distancing us from others. Affective Publics explores how storytelling practices facilitate engagement among movements tuning into a current issue or event by employing three case studies: Arab Spring movements, various iterations of Occupy, and everyday casual political expressions as traced through the archives of trending topics on Twitter. It traces how affective publics materialize and disband around connective conduits of sentiment every day and find their voice through the soft structures of feeling sustained by societies. Using original quantitative and qualitative data, Affective Publics demonstrates, in this groundbreaking analysis, that it is through these soft structures that affective publics connect, disrupt, and feel their way into everyday politics"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aPolitical participation
_xTechnological innovations.
650 0 _aSocial media
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aOnline social networks
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aArab Spring, 2010-
650 0 _aOccupy movement.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General.
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