In press

Some publishing developments this week:

- The Affect Reader manuscript is finally finished and off to the publisher (isn’t it Greg?!). Until we actually get a contract, it’s probably best to keep the contents under wraps, but for the moment I’m just so pleased and proud to have made it this far. Working as co-editor with Greg has meant overcoming some significant barriers of time and geography, without taking into account the difficulties of co-ordinating a range of contributors across continents. But it will be an important achievement if this book brings Greg some appropriate recognition for his long-standing commitment to scholarship in this area — work that is brilliantly on display in the introductory chapter. Fingers crossed more people can read it soon.

- The first chapter Catherine and I wrote together, ‘Broadcast Yourself: Moral Panic, Youth Culture and Internet Studies’ has been published in a new collection, Youth, Media and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region edited by Usha M. Rodrigues and Belinda Smaill. The contents page and introduction is available in PDF here.

- The proofs arrived for my forthcoming piece in the special commentary section of Feminist Media Studies, ‘The New Architectures of Intimacy? Social networking sites and genders” edited by Usha Zacharias and Jane Arthurs. Other authors in this feature will include Catherine (another sample from our book in progress), Becky Walker, Nicole S. Cohen and Leslie Regan Shade, Yuping Mao, Rustem Ertug Altinay and Sarah Gorman.

- An article that summarises the project of my last book, “Communicating Investment: Cultural studies, affect and the academy” was published in The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies (along with an excellent piece by Nick Couldry on Reality TV and neoliberalism).

- Colleagues Marianne Liljeström and Susanna Paasonen (who I was visiting this time last year) have been offered a contract for their edited collection, Disturbing Differences: Working with Affect in Feminist Readings. My chapter will be called “Writing scholarly affects: Fallible voices as feminist practice.”