Affective News and Electronic Elsewheres
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Affec%ve News and Electronic Elsewheres
Zizi Papacharissi Professor and Head, Communica%on, U of Illinois-‐Chicago
@zizip :: uic.edu/~zizi :: [email protected]
Premise Research indicates that informa%onal and conversa%onal uses à complex networked social awareness systems • Prac%ces characterized by produsage (Bruns)
• Systems are hybrid (Chadwick) • Environments are ambient (Hermida) New(er) networked spaces of news storytelling prodused, hybrid, ambient
Mobility and Priva%za%on Mobile (narra%ves) (Farman, 2012) – Enabled/sustained by mobile devices – Geo-‐social • Help “conceptualise individuals’ physical, psychological and/or social connec%ons to par%cular geographic territory without necessarily loca%ng them within these physical spaces” (Hess, 2013).
Priva%zed and atomized • Pluralize+connect Liminal • Oral+print, primary+secondary orality
Liminality and Affect LIMINALITY: a posi%on of social and structural ambiguity, or as “the Nay to all posi%ve structural asser%ons, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configura%ons of ideas and rela%ons may arise” (Turner,1967, p. 97). AFFECT: a prepersonal intensity corresponding to the passage from one experien%al state of the body to another and implying an augmenta%on or diminu%on in that body's capacity to act (Deleuze & Guagari, 1987/1980 )
Affec%ve news streams :news collabora%vely constructed out of subjec%ve experience, opinion, and emo%on all sustained by and sustaining ambient news environments. We may understand affec%ve news as the product of hybrid news values and ambient, always-‐on news environments. Affec%ve news streams blend fact, opinion, and sen%ment to the point where discerning one from the other is difficult, and doing so misses the point. Characterized by premedia%on, affec%ve news streams may be filled with an%cipatory gestures that are not predic%ve of the future, but communicate a predisposi%on to frame it, and in doing so, lay claim to latent forms of agency that are also affec%ve and networked. :sustain electronic elsewheres discursively render spaces where the long-‐disconnected publics of ci%zens and journalists may reconnect : reflec%ve of a digital orality
σας ευχαριστω! = thank you!
all photos my own, from exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Chicago Art Expo. For more on my work, see www.uic.edu/~zizi