Digital Feeling

By Sarah Riley and Adrienne Evans

Book Overview

This book offers a trailblazing account of postfeminist sensibility as a digital feeling that shapes how we understand the world around us. It explores how we feel in a world where the digital has become intertwined with our intimate relationships to ourselves and to others. The book develops a novel approach that draws on feminist theories of affect, emotion, and structures of feeling, to analyse the entanglements of the digital and the non-digital, and the public and the private, and to show how good feeling shapes a contemporary moment that often leads us back to normativity and reproduces systemic inequality. This is achieved through several different digital media spheres, including: the Instagram account Barbie Savior, #fitspo content, TikTok influencers and their Get Ready With Me videos, the archive of hot men on TubeCrush, and the intimacies of the internet cat, suggesting that each offers a snapshot of our current emotional landscapes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031235614
• ISBN13: 9783031235610
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"