Internet and Emotions (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041581944X ISBN 13: 9780415819442

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Tova Benski is chair of the Behavioral Sciences Department at the College of Management in Rishon Lezion.

Eran Fisher is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Communication, Ben Gurion University, Israel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041581944X
• ISBN 13: 9780415819442
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Benski Tova, Fisher Eran