Contested Order of Emotions: (Anti)Feminist Discourse on Social Media (D02 [B02])

• Subject Area: Communication Sciences
• Term: since 2015
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 258523721

The research project will analyze feminist and anti-feminist publics on social media focusing on the following research questions: How do affective publics mobilize (anti-)feminist discourses? Which affects and emotions are at the center of (anti-)feminist discourses? How do different platform infrastructures shape the users’ affective media practices? Applying a cross-platform and mixed-method research design, the main objective of the project is to conceptualize the media-technological and algorithmic environments shaping these publics as Infrastructures of Feeling.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1171: Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Margreth Lünenborg