About the Afemed project #

This website and the content published here are part of the Afemed reseach project.

Afemed examines the “affective turn” in the media which has marked a series of changes, ranging from the digitalisation of newsrooms and new forms of employment to the crumbling of existing professional ideologies of journalistic work. Theoretically, the project is centred around feminist epistemology, to go beyond the views which perceive reason and emotion in an opposing way. The foregrounding of knowledge coming from the embodied experience, feelings and beliefs as they occur in the working process and everyday life enables a deeper insight into the affective social dynamics of hybrid media, which cannot be fully understood only through the analysis of technological changes that are the focus of most of the existing research. Our point of departure is that relations in the media are not only determined with regard to the means of production, but are also constituted in connection with the emotional work and feelings that cut across the public and private spheres. The project’s research approach takes into account the interaction between external macro (field) structure, and the “affective turn” at the meso and micro (organizational and personal) levels in media practice and the imagining of the journalistic profession.