Surfing the Anthropocene; The Big Tension and Digital Affect

ISBN-13: 9781433179785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 286 str.

Eric S. Jenkins

Opis

Surfing the Anthropocene seeks to enhance the understanding of political experience in a digital media environment for students and academics alike by diagramming the various modes of that experience and illustrating how a big tension-between the scale and the speed of the online environment-characterizes digital life today.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments - Introduction - Making Sense: New Materialism and Affect Theory - The Time and Space of Gaming, Gardening, and Global Warming - The Digital Atmosphere: Of Love and Smartphones - The Digital Hydrosphere: On Twitter's Billowing, Prodigious Flood - The Digital Lumisphere: On Surveillance and the Ethics of Witnessing - The Digital Climate: Hot Facebook Meets Cool Democracy - Lessons from the Garden: Ameliorating the Big Tension - Index.

O autorze

Eric S. Jenkins is an associate professor of communication at the University of Cincinnati, the recipient of numerous top paper awards at national and international conferences, and the author of Special Affects: Cinema, Animation, and the Translation of Consumer Culture (2014).