Author Archives: meganboler

At long last, our research essay drawn from our multi-year research project funded by Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council: “Digital Affect Culture and the Logics of Melodrama: Online Polarization and the January 6 Capitol Riots through the Lens of Genre and Affective Discourse Analysis” is now published in Social Media and Society https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241228584Continue reading “Just published by Social Media + Society!”

Delighted to share a new essay, “Cruel, Convenient, and Intimate Publics: Berlant’s Lessons for Loneliness and Digital Media Commons“, co-authored with Ali Azhar, in a Special Section ‘Lauren Berlant and Media Theory‘, edited by Carolyn Pedwell & Simon Dawes on of the open access journal Media Theory (December 2023).

Had an amazing time attending two conferences in San Francisco this February– Creating Change 2023 which ran Feb 17-21, organized by the National LGBTQ Task Force, and the San Francisco Writers Conference (Feb 15-18, 2023). It was amazing going back and forth between the two venues, from workshops on publishing to panels on Education asContinue reading “Networking in SF Bay Area: Creating Change Natl LGBTQ Conference and SF Writers Conferences!”

How social media echo chambers influence your emotions and your political compass An expert explains how Facebook lives on psychology, politics and your attention, by Megan DeLaire, Dec 22, 2020 “The fact that we no longer have privacy in the digital sphere means our political system is increasingly being run by algorithms, by social mediaContinue reading “Boler in Media”

Trump would have done ‘terrible damage’ in second term: Political experts in Canada sound off on the future of U.S. politics under Joe Biden, Kamala Harris “Once disinformation or misinformation goes out, the opportunity to correct it is extremely difficult,” Boler told Yahoo Canada. “Even if people do see that correction, a very small percentage tendContinue reading “Boler in Media, Biden Wins, November 7”

Some of my least incendiary remarks regarding Twitter’s 11th hour decision to finally suspend Trump from Twitter (Global TV National News January 8):

Megan Boler, Professor, SJE OISE and Elizabeth Davis, PhD Candidate, SJE OISE editors, The Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda By Other Means (Routledge 2021) Wednesday December 2, 2020 1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. EDT  Register through Zoom: https://oise-utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcuqqrTwsG9JDgYJPM6E6xtRdBTgdzaSd Join us for a presentation and discussion of the U.S. election, the rise of (digital) fascism, and the shifting discoursesContinue reading “Join us this Wednesday Dec. 2! “The Least Racist Person in this Room”: Digital Affect, the U.S. Election, and the Upside Down of Identity Politics”

Thrilled to announce our new book just published by Routledge — (use code FLR40 for a 20% discount on purchase)! from our Introduction: Digital media has ushered in propaganda by other means—new strategies for mobilizing and capturing affect and emotion. How are feelings like fear, disgust, outrage, and resentment being used to capture attention, generateContinue reading “New Book! Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda By Other Means, eds. M. Boler and E. Davis”

In early October I had the opportunity to present at the international Comparative Approaches to Disinformation Workshop held at Harvard University, an incredible event with phenomenally cutting-edge presentations from around the world (sponsored by The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy). My talk, “Affect,Continue reading “Harvard Disinformation Workshop”

Following our successful collaborations, and the International Symposium (supported by a SSHRC Connections Grant) we hosted at the University of Toronto this past June, I am co-editing with Elizabeth Davis a cutting-edge collection titled Affect, Algorithms and Propaganda: Interdisciplinary Research for the Age of “Post-Truth” Media. Our aim is to have the book published byContinue reading “Forthcoming Edited Collection, “Affect, Algorithms and Propaganda: Interdisciplinary Research for the Age of ‘Post-Truth’ Media,” coming in 2020!”