Carsten Stage Boeken

The book offers a theoretical framework for analyzing bodily vulnerability within modern media culture, complemented by empirical case studies on topics like online war commemoration, protest strategies, and illness blogging. It investigates how global media interacts with affect theory and examines the body as a means of biopolitical protest, highlighting the significance of vulnerability in contemporary societal issues.

This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media. Networked cancer: Affect, Narrative and Measurement offers a theoretical framework for understanding this entrepreneurial cancer narrative through an introduction focusing on the key concepts of illness narrative, social media and affect.