Tobias Linné Taiwan Lecture Series II｜NYCU Animal and Media Forum: Interspecies Intimacy and Animal Emotional Labour in Social Media

2025-09-04 - 2025-11-04

Tobias Linné

HB326, HA Building 2, Guangfu Campus

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Tobias Linné holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media, where he teaches media and communication studies across all undergraduate levels. Since 2012, he has served as the course leader for Critical Animal Studies: Animals in Society, Culture, and the Media. From 2013 to 2014, he coordinated the research theme Exploring “the Animal Turn”: Changing Perspectives on Human-Animal Relations in Science, Society, and Culture, funded by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University. In 2016, he co-founded the Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network. In 2024, LUCASN published  Reimagining Species Relations to celebrate their ten years of work.  

 

Tobias Linné Taiwan Lecture Series

Series I丨9/17  📍NSYSU  “Animal Studies in Co-Becoming”workshop

Presentation: Teaching about human-animal relations: Tears, Connections, and Action for Animals Registration Form  

Series  II丨 9/19  📍NYCU  Animal and Media Forum

Presentation: Interspecies Intimacy and Animal Emotional Labour in Social Media 

Series  III  丨9/20 📍plantārium 2025 Outstanding Animal Protection Teachers Award Ceremony & Master Dialogue

Panel Discussion: Effective Altruism and Animal Protection Registration Form

Series  IV 丨9/27📍HCU  23rd International Conference on Venerable Yinshun’s Teaching Theories and Practices: Buddhism and Contemporary Animal Ethics

Presentation: Humanity’s dark shadow: Co-existingwith Rats Registration Form

 

Tobias Linné Taiwan Lecture Series II  

📌Guest Lecture by Tobias Linné丨Interspecies Intimacy and Animal Emotional Labour in Social Media 

🔶Abstract

Cute and funny animal videos are a staple in contemporary digital media cultures, generating both attention and billions of views, while also creating economic value. In this presentation mediated performances of interspecies relations between humans and other animals are analyzed as expressions of animal emotional labour and affective capitalism. What is the social and cultural significance of these kinds of public display of personal affects and emotions of animals? And what does this mediated emotion sharing mean for the animals that are part of it?  

Date: 2025/9/19 (Fri) 9:30-12:00

Venue: HB326, HA Building 2, Guangfu Campus, NYCU

Speaker: Tobias Linné (Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, Sweden)

Discussant: Lan Lo (Initiator of Book Translation Project, Taiwan Animal Equality Association)

Discussant: Yu-Hui Tai (Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

Moderator:  Yen-Ling Tsai (Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

 

Note:

● The lecture will be conducted in English with simultaneous English-to-Chinese interpretation.

● This lecture is for in-person attendance only and requires online pre-registration.

🔗Online Registration

Registration Deadline: 16/9

 

Organizer：

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences / Master's Program in Ethnicity and Culture, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Research Cluster on “Environmental Crises and Multi-species Justice in the 21st Century: Toward Decolonization Beyond the Human”, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Communicative Ecology Analysis Course offered by the Department of Communication and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Co-organizer：

Higher Education SPROUT Project, Ministry of Education(MOE)

NYCU Student Union – Chiao Tung Branch