Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : propaganda by other means / Megan Boler and Elizabeth Davis
Theorizing media and affect. Affect, media, movement : interview with Susanna Paasonen and Zizi Papachrissi / Megan Boler and Elizabeth Davis
Reverberation, affect, and digital politics of responsibility / Adi Kuntsman
"Fuck your feelings" : the affective weaponization of facts and reason / Sun-ha Hong
Blockchain, affect, and digital technologies / Olivier Jutel
Becoming kind : a political affect for post-truth times / Ed Cohen
Beyond behaviorism and black boxes : the future of media theory interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Warren Sack, and Sarah Sharma / Megan Boler and Elizabeth Davis
Affective media, social media, and journalism : new relationships. Pioneering countercultural conservatism : Limbaugh, Drudge, and Breitbart / Anthony Nadler
Breitbart's attacks on mainstream media : victories, victimhood, and vilification / Jason Roberts and Karin-Wahl Jorgensen
Algorithmic enclaves : affective politics and algorithms in the neoliberal social media landscape / Merlyna Lim
Hashtagging the Quèbec mosque shooting : Twitter discourses of resistance, mourning, and Islamophobia / Yasmin Jiwani and Ahmed Al-Rawi
Hindu nationalism, news channels, and "post-truth" Twitter : a case study of "love jihad" / Zeinab Farokhi
Computational propaganda and the news : journalists' perceptions of the effects of digital manipulation on reporting / Kerry Ann Carter Persen and Samuel C. Woolley
Exploitation of emotions in digital media : propaganda and profit. Empathic media, emotional AI, and the optimization of disinformation / Vian Bakir and Andrew McStay
The heart's content : the emotional turn at Upworthy / Robert Hunt
Empires of feeling : social media and emotive politics / Luke Stark
Nudging interventions in regulating the digital gangsters in an era of friction-free surveillance capitalism / Leslie Regan Shade
Digital propaganda and emotional micro-targeting : interview with Jonathan Albright, Carole Cadwalladr, Paolo Gerbaudo, and Tamsin Shaw / Megan Boler and Elizabeth Davis

"This interdisciplinary, international collection examines how sophisticated digital practices and technologies exploit and capitalize on emotions, with particular focus on how social media are used to exacerbate social conflicts surrounding racism, misogyny and nationalism. Radically expanding the study of media and political communications, this book bridges humanities and social sciences to explore affective information economies: how emotions are being weaponized within mediatized political landscapes. The chapters cover a wide range of topics: how clickbait, "fake news," and right-wing actors deploy and weaponize emotion; new theoretical directions for understanding affect, algorithms, and public spheres; and how the wedding of big data and behavioral science enable new frontiers of propaganda, as seen in the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal. The collection includes original interviews with luminary media scholars and journalists. The book features contributions from established and emerging scholars of communications, media studies, affect theory, journalism, policy studies, gender studies, and critical race studies, to address questions of concern to scholars, journalists, and students in these fields and beyond"--