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Affect in Media and Communication Studies: Potentials and Assemblages

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  • Brigitte Hipfl

    (Department of Media and Communication Studies, Klagenfurt University, Austria)

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After a general mapping of the different understandings of affect, this article focuses on two aspects of a Deleuze-Guattarian understanding of affect which are of particular relevance for media and communication studies. The first is understanding affect as potential. It is through the forces of encounter that bodies are affected and that these affections then can be turned into action, into their capacity to affect. The second is understanding the perpetual becoming that takes place through continual encounters between bodies; with each encounter, the body changes, however slightly and subtly. The concept of assemblage that allows one to grasp these dynamics and complexities is discussed as an approach towards a much more complex theoretical grounding for processes of agency and power. Working with affect in media and communication studies, a three-fold strategy will be presented: to analyse how media generate affects and capitalise on them; to analyse what media do—in the sense of mobilizing potential; to analyse phenomena of mediated communication as assemblages. The article ends with challenges and new paths for conducting research on affect.

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  • Brigitte Hipfl, 2018. "Affect in Media and Communication Studies: Potentials and Assemblages," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(3), pages 5-14.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:meanco:v:6:y:2018:i:3:p:5-14
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    1. Margreth Lünenborg & Tanja Maier, 2018. "The Turn to Affect and Emotion in Media Studies," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(3), pages 1-4.

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