Carsten Stage: 3 books

This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media. Through a range of case studies, it shows that a new type of entrepreneurial cancer narrative is currently evolving. This narrative is characterised by using illness to build projects and produce various...

Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect shows how mediations of bodily vulnerability have become a strong political force in contemporary societies. In discussions and struggles concerning war involvement, healthcare issues, charity, democracy movements, contested national pasts, and climate change,...

This book investigates the language created and used on social media to express and respond to personal experiences of illness, dying and mourning.  The authors begin by setting out the established and recent research on social and existential media, affect and language, before focusing on...