Carsten Stage: Cancer and Social Media - Assemblages of Affect, Biological Citizenship and ValuationVideomitschnitt der Veranstaltung "Affect and its Methods"
5. April 2016
The lecture will investigate the current rise of activist and entrepreneurial forms of cancer communi- cation on social media platforms. Here individual narratives of suffering, treatment, and sometimes healing, are increasingly intertwined with crowdfunding activities and mobilisation in relation to health care issues. The talk will approach these illness narratives as taking part in highly complex and dilem- matic assemblages of affect, valuation (measured in e.g. donation, like, share or comment scores) and biological citizenship.
Carsten Stage is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. Previous publications include Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect: Politicising Bodily Vulnerability (Routledge, 2015), Affective Methodologies: Developing Cultural Research Strate- gies for the Study of Affect (co-ed, Palgrave, 2015), and ‘The Online Crowd’ in Distinktion (2013). He is co-editor of Conjunctions: Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation. His current research focuses on illness communication, cultural participation, affect, and social media.