Internet and Emotions

Nothing seems more far removed from the visceral, bodily experience of emotions than the cold, rational technology of the Internet. But as this collection shows, the internet and emotions intersect in interesting and surprising ways. Internet and Emotions is the fruit of an interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars from the sociology of emotions and communication and media st...

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Nothing seems more far removed from the visceral, bodily experience of emotions than the cold, rational technology of the Internet. But as this collection shows, the internet and emotions intersect in interesting and surprising ways. Internet and Emotions is the fruit of an interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars from the sociology of emotions and communication and media studies. It features theoretical and empirical chapters from international researchers who investigate a wide range of issues concerning the sociology of emotions in the context of new media. The book fills a substantial gap in the social research of digital technology, and examines whether the internet invokes emotional states differently from other media and unmediated situations, how emotions are mobilized and internalized into online practices, and how the social definitions of emotions are changing with the emergence of the internet. It explores a wide range of behaviors and emotions from love to mourning, anger, resentment and sadness. What happens to our emotional life in a mediated, disembodied environment, without the bodily element of physical co-presence to set off emotional exchanges? Are there qualitatively new kinds of emotional exchanges taking place on the internet? These are only some of the questions explored in the chapters of this book, with quite surprising answers.

Introduction: Investigating Emotions and the Internet Tova Benski and Eran Fisher Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
1. Power, Identity and Feelings in Digital Late Modernity: The Rationality of Reflexive Emotion Displays Online Jakob Svensson
2. Feeling Through Presence: Toward of Theory of Interaction Rituals and Parasociality in Online Social Worlds David Boyns and Daniele Loprieno
3. Measuring Emotions in Individuals and Internet Communities Dennis Küster and Arvid Kappas
Part II: Emotions Display
4. Grief 2.0: Exploring Virtual Cemeteries Nina R. Jakoby and Simone Reiser
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Introduction: Investigating Emotions and the Internet Tova Benski and Eran Fisher Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
1. Power, Identity and Feelings in Digital Late Modernity: The Rationality of Reflexive Emotion Displays Online Jakob Svensson
2. Feeling Through Presence: Toward of Theory of Interaction Rituals and Parasociality in Online Social Worlds David Boyns and Daniele Loprieno
3. Measuring Emotions in Individuals and Internet Communities Dennis Küster and Arvid Kappas
Part II: Emotions Display
4. Grief 2.0: Exploring Virtual Cemeteries Nina R. Jakoby and Simone Reiser
5. Islamic Emoticons: Pious Sociability and Community Building in Online Muslim Communities Andrea L. Stanton
6. Emotional Socialization on a Swedish Internet Dating Site: The Search and Hope for Happiness Henrik Fürst
7. Emotion to Action?: Deconstructing the Ontological Politics of the "Like" Button Tamara Peyton
Part III: Mediating Interpersonal Intimacy
8. Transconnective Space, Emotions and Skype: The Transnational Emotional Practices of Mixed International Couples in the Republic of Ireland Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain
9. Send Me a Message and I’ll Call You Back: The Late Modern Webbing of Everyday Love Life Natàlia Cantó-Milà, Francesc Núñez and Swen Seebach
Part IV: Mediating Emotional Space
10. Emerging Resentment in Social Media: Job Insecurity and Plots of Emotions in the New Virtual Environments Elisabetta Risi
11. Cosmopolitan Empathy and User-Generated Disaster Appeal Videos on YouTube Mervi Pantti and Minttu Tikka
12. Anger, Pain, Shame, and Cyber-Voyeurism: Emotions Around E-Tragic Events Alessandra Micallizzi
13. Emotional Investments: Australian Feminist Blogging and Affective Networks Frances Shaw
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