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Internet and Emotions - Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society Tova Benski 1st edition
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Internet and Emotions - Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
Tova Benski
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.
250 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white halftones, 8 black & white line drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 29, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415819442 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 250 |
| Dimensions | 234 × 159 × 19 mm · 472 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Benski, Tova |
| Editor | Fisher, Eran (The Open University, Israel) |
