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Emotion Online: Theorizing Affect on the Internet takes stock of where we are emotionally with regards to the Internet in social and cultural terms. Online users are switching between personal, national, international and global modes of being and feeling that shape private and public experiences. Drawing upon the well-established discipline of media studies, the book travels theoretically through, across, in and between examples of traditional media as they merge and emerge online. Garde-Hansen and Gorton explore how we feel about, and how we feel in, our online media ecology in the context of global media platforms.
An accessible introduction to the concept of desire, and a coherent critique of the competing theorizations of desire within contemporary theory, this book explores competing theories of desire within contemporary theory, tracing the concept's evolution through Freud, to feminist theory, to film representation. Its historical approach provides a narrative of competing theories. It draws on contemporary film and TV examples, such as In the Mood for Love, Safe and Sex and the City, to deepen our understanding of desire as it is presented on screen.What is the nature of desire? This books gives an accessible introduction to the concept, and a coherent critique of the competing theories of desire within contemporary theory. Through analysis of representations of desire in television and films, it considers ways in which the concept is theorized and presented on screen.
Travelling through theories of emotion and affect, this book addresses the key ways in which media studies can be brought to bear upon everyday encounters with online cultures and practices. The book takes stock of where we are emotionally with regard to the Internet in the context of other screen media.
What is the nature of desire? This book gives an accessible introduction to the concept, and a coherent critique of the competing theories of desire within contemporary theory. Through analysis of representations of desire in television and film, it considers ways in which the concept is theorized and presented on screen.
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