"Hate, empathize, mobilize" - new article by Prof. Dr. Margreth Lünenborg in the magazine "Kompetent"
News from May 19, 2022
In the new issue of the magazine “Kompetent”, which is dedicated to topics of the digitalization of Germany, Prof. Dr. Margreth Lünenborg contributes with an article about the role of emotions in digitalized public communication. In it, she highlights how the role of emotions within public communication has changed due to digitalization, and how affective media practices today produce emotional dynamics such as “shitstorms” and “candystorms”.
The article in German is available online.