ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Fact-based media production such as journalism and documentary filmmaking depend on truthfulness, reliability, and accuracy. Traditionally, their epistemologies set objectivity, rationality, and mind against subjectivity, emotionality, and bodily experience. Recently, media studies have seen an emotional turn: a rapid increase in scholarly attention to the role of emotions, affect, and bodily sensations in media production, content, and consumption. Yet, the epistemic value of emotions and bodies – how they limit and enable what media professionals know – is yet to be seriously considered. Furthermore, the rational/emotional dichotomy mindset has contributed to a professional culture that…
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