There is a lot to feel right now, and we want to compile research that takes up these feelings. Research regarding emotions, affect, sensations, and feelings is an intentionally broad category. We welcome submissions using a variety of approaches to tackle questions and themes that may fall under this umbrella.
We have a few categories of work and topics that might relate to this issue, but this is only a starting point:
- Queer theory
- Feminist theory
- Far-right and alt-right studies
- Affect theory
- Climate communication
- Labour studies
- Theories of emotion
- Affective economies
- Emotion/affect and AI
- Collective feeling
- Care as affective engagement
- Design and commodification of emotion/affect
Stream invites you to submit a full paper, research in progress, or extended abstract for this edition. Stream is a peer-reviewed journal produced by Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication Graduate Caucus. Submissions for this edition are welcome from fields of interdisciplinary studies which intersect with communication, media studies, and affect theory. All final papers should be five to 20 pages in length and submitted as a Word document (.doc or .docx) or a rich text (.rft) format. Please find Stream’s guidelines here. Please note that only works entirely authored by students currently enrolled in master’s and/or doctoral programs will be accepted. Texts co-authored by postdocs, working professionals, instructors, and/or professors do not qualify for publication with Stream. Deadline to apply: May, 10, 2024.