Reader in Digital Culture and Communication, University of East London
Dr Tony D. Sampson is reader in digital culture and communications in the School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI), co-founder of Club Critical Theory and organiser of the Affect and Social Media conferences (A&SM 3 at UEL on 25th May 2017).
Tony’s publications include The Spam Book (Hampton Press, 2009) Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks (Minnesota, 2012), The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture (Minnesota, 2016) and Affect and Social Media (Rowman and Littlefield, due in 2018).
He is currently writing a new book on experience capitalism and occasionally blogs at http://viralcontagion.wordpress.com/
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