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Mediated Humanitarian Affect

dc.contributor.editorBösel, Bernd
dc.contributor.editorWiemer, Serjoscha
dc.creatorRoss, Andrew A. G.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-10T14:41:47Z
dc.date.available2020-11-10T14:41:47Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis contribution reflects on the cultural pol- itics of affective media in the field of global humanitarianism. Liberal advocates of internet connectivity continue to celebrate mobile and other digital networking technologies as vehicles for global dialogue and transnational justice. A key conceit of this tradition is an ontological linkage between the scale of mediated communication, the sensorial range of human experience, and the capaciousness of moral attention. In reference to recent developments in digital humanitarian advocacy, this chapter disrupts these linkages and tells a more complex story about the politics of mediated humanitarian affect. Digital humanitarian campaigns enhance moral sensitivities but also engender new forms of digital labor, data gathering, and political control. Crisis mapping technologies expand opportunities for liberal institutions to manage distant populations according to specific rationalities of governance. And the algorithms that circulate video advocacy campaigns are translating distant conflicts into new sites for enjoyment and moral urgency. The case of mediated humanitarian affect reveals the extent to which human affective energies are being captured by the technologies and regimes of power characteristic of neoliberal societies.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14989
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15978
dc.languageeng
dc.publishermeson
dc.publisher.placeLüneburg
dc.relation.isPartOfisbn:978-3-95796-166-2
dc.relation.isPartOfdoi:https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14986
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectAffektde
dc.subjectNeoliberalismusde
dc.subjectKampagnende
dc.subjectHumanitarismusde
dc.subject.ddcddc:302.23
dc.titleMediated Humanitarian Affecten
dc.typebookPart
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeBookParten
local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:08:32
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.14619/1655
local.source.booktitleAffective Transformations: Politics-Algorithms-Media
local.source.epage184
local.source.spage169

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