Table of Contents

Preface: Haunted Data Part 1: Priming and Networked Affect: data mediation and media contagions 1.Transmedial Storytelling, Weird Science and Archives of the Future 2.Social Media Contagion(s): An analysis of Priming Controversies within Cognitive Science 3.Data-mediation and Hauntological Analysis: The “Clever Hans Charge” Part 2: Feeling Futures: Mediating Futures 4.Feeling the Future 5.Pornception and Big Data 6.Open Science and Quantum Matters 7.Conclusion: Affect and Archives of the Future Index

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Haunted Data explores how the rapidly changing landscape of computers, science and data affects and shapes our emotional lives

About the Author

Lisa Blackman is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. This is her fifth book. Previous books include Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation (2012).

Reviews

Be prepared to be haunted in the best way possible: spooked over and over again by joy and wonder. Lisa Blackman tells stories of the ghosts of sciences past, present, and future, stories that will shake affect studies to its bones.
*Gregory J. Seigworth, Professor of Communication Studies, Millersville University, USA*

Eschewing the straight path of data analytics, Lisa Blackman has written an alien phenomenology of datafication that returns to us the haunted life of data, its affective ghosts and afterlives. A study in the psychomediation of datafied software culture, Blackman offers a unique and important contribution to the critical study of contemporary computational media.
*Tiziana Terranova, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and New Media, University of Naples, Italy*