Emotions in the Digital World: Exploring Affective Experience and Expression in Online Interactions

This volume will examine the ways in which rapidly changing technologies and patterns of media use influence, and are influenced by, our emotional experiences. Through a social science lens, the contributing authors explore how technology shapes our emotional experiences, offering readers a nuanced, interdisciplinary perspective on this increasingly relevant social phenomenon.

Robin L. Nabi is Professor of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters on the role of emotion in media processes and effects, with particular emphasis on media use and well-being and the persuasive effect of emotion-based messages. She co-edited the SAGE Handbook of Media Processes and Effects and served as a managing editor of Media Psychology. She was inaugurated as a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2017.

Jessica Gall Myrick is Donald P. Bellisario Professor of Health Communication in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State University. Her research examines the interplay of emotional and cognitive processes in shaping audience responses to media messages about health, science, and the environment. Myrick also studies the role of media coverage of celebrities and pets in shaping our culture and health-related attitudes and behaviors. Her research has been featured by news outlets across the globe.