FOMO: An Affect of the Mobile Village

Artman, N.
ECA 2016 Convention
March 2016, Baltimore, MD

This panel introduces the concept of affect theory to a broader exploration of digital media technologies. The complexity of communications media, and the ecological implications produced therein, have essentially created a multiverse of “perpendicular ecologies.” This interplay between digital displays of perceptual intensity (affect) and direct displays of physical involvement (effect)–affect as medium–provides the overarching thematic framework for the individual panel presentations.