Download or read book Affective Publics written by Zizi Papacharissi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital technologies network us but it is our stories that connect us to each other, making us feel close to some and distancing us from others. Affective Publics explores how storytelling practices on Twitter facilitate affective engagement for publics tuning into a current issue or event by employing three case studies: Arab Spring movements, various iterations of Occupy, and everyday casual political expressions as traced through the archives of trending topics on Twitter.