Johanssen, J. 2018. Not Belonging to one’s Self: Affect on Facebook’s Site Governance page. International Journal of Cultural Studies . 21 (2), pp. 207-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877916666116
| Title | Not Belonging to one’s Self: Affect on Facebook’s Site Governance page |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Johanssen, J. |
| Abstract | This article makes a contribution to a growing number of works that discuss affect and social media. I use Freudian affect theory to analyse user posts on the public Site Governance Facebook page. Freud’s work may help us to explore the affectivity within the user narratives and I suggest that they are expressions of alienation, dispossession and powerlessness that relate to the users’ relations with Facebook as well as to their internal and wider social relations. The article thus introduces a new angle on studies of negative user experiences that draws on psychoanalysis and critical theory. |
| Keywords | Freudian affect theory, user experience, Facebook, data ownership |
| Journal | International Journal of Cultural Studies |
| Journal citation | 21 (2), pp. 207-222 |
| ISSN | 1367-8779 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Publisher | Sage |
| Accepted author manuscript | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877916666116 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published in print | 01 Mar 2018 |
| Published online | 31 Aug 2016 |
| Published | 31 Aug 2016 |