The main purpose of the first meeting of the reading group is to think about how the group will develop over the next academic year. Our proposed focus is 'Affect, Emotion, Media', with a particular focus on new media. The next meeting will be in the Michaelmas term 2007; the time and venue will be posted on our website. For an indicative list of readings, see below.

Affect, emotion, media: methods in feminist research reading group Indicative reading list

Alison Adam (2002) "The Ethical Dimensions of Cyberfeminism' in M. Flanagan and A. Booth, eds, Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture, MIT Press

Lauren Berlant (2006) 'Cruel Optimism' Differences 17 (5)

Patricia Ticineto Clough (ed) (2007) The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social Duke University Press

Gilles Deleuze (1992) 'Ethology: Spinoza and Us' in Jonathon Crary and Sanford Kwinter (eds) Incorporations Zone

Vinciane Despret (2004) 'The Body We Care for: Figures of Anthropo-zoo-genesis' Body and Society 10 (2-3)

Radhika Gajjala (2000) 'An Interrupted Postcolonial/Feminist Cyberethnography: Complicity and Resistance in the "Cyberfield"' Feminist Media Studies 2 (2)

Andil Gosine (2007) 'Brown to Blonde at Gay.Com: Passing White in Queer Cyberspace' in K O'Riordan and D.J. Phillipds, eds., Queer Online: Media Technology and Sexuality, Peter Lang

Clare Hemmings (2005) 'Invoking Affect' Cultural Studies 19 (5).

Lena Karlsson 2007 'Desperately Seeking Sameness: The processes and pleasures of identification in women's diary blog reading' Feminist Media Studies 7 (2).

Catharina Landstrom (2007) 'Queering Feminist Techology Studies' Feminist Theory 8 (1)

Sianne Ngai, (2005) 'Introduction' Ugly Feelings, Harvard University Press.

Elspeth Probyn `A-ffect: Let her RIP` (2005) M/C online,http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0512/13-probyn.php

Denise Riley (2005) Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect Duke University Press

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (2006) 'Teaching/Depression'

Katheleen Stewart (2007) 'CULTURAL POESIS:The Generativity of Emergent Things' Ordinary Affects, Duke University Press. see also `The Perfectly Ordinary Life'