Emotions Matter conference & workshop

I've been asked by the conference organizers to introduce a few of the speakers at this weekend's Emotions Matter conference at Carleton University. When I originally approached them about participating in the conference, I really thought my thesis theme would fit more strongly into the sociology of emotions area. While it no longer does, I'm still interested in fear and risk discourses around everyday understanding s of digital life. Outside of political science, that seems to fall into this then. So while it may not directly relate, it should still be quite interesting for me.

I'm particularly looking forward to Andrea Doucet and Natasha Mauthner's talk on emotions in knowing.

I might try to experiment with twittering or blogging the conference.