2025 Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) Annual Conference

Authors

Event: 2025 Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) Annual Conference 2025
Venue: University College Cork
Date: 8th to 9th May 2025

Billy Goodwin, University College Cork

A third-year PhD student in the Department of Sociology & Criminology at University College Cork (UCC). Prior to beginning his PhD, he completed a master’s degree in Sociology at UCC. Billy’s research explores the affective and political dynamics of indignation in contemporary digital culture. Drawing on critical theory, affect studies and political philosophy, his work investigates how indignation operates as both a moral sentiment and a form of governance within accelerated, media-saturated societies. Accordingly, his research engages the frameworks of Foucault, Baudrillard and Hartmut Rosa, with particular interest in the intersections between dignity, affective economies and platform capitalism.