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Intensive Media: Aversive Affect and Visual Culture 1st ed. 2013 Edition
Author(s): A. McCosker (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: January 1, 2013
- Edition: 1st ed. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 193 pages
- ISBN-10: 1349445274
- ISBN-13: 9781349445271
Book Description
There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media explores the discomfort and fascination initiated by instances of pain and suffering, their ‘aversive affects’, as they trouble but also vitalise contemporary media environments.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘McCosker’s book is a very interesting read with its focus on pain images as forms of mediation aimed at appealing to a shared human vulnerability, on the affective and political complexity of pain images, and on the development of concepts to describe
more-than-representational forms of communication.’ – Carsten Stage, Journal of Media and Communication Research
About the Author
Anthony McCosker lectures in Media and Communications in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne University, Australia. His research explores media affect, digital and visual cultures and social media practices and publics.
