Electronic Emotion: The Mediation of Emotion via Information and Communication Technologies

Electronic Emotion: The Mediation of Emotion via Information and Communication Technologies
ISBN-10
3039118668
ISBN-13
9783039118663
Category
Cellular telephones
Pages
250
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Peter Lang
Authors
Jane Vincent, Leopoldina Fortunati, Professor Colin B Grant

Description

Electronic emotion is the emotion lived, relived or discovered through machines. It is the emotion that users of information and communication technologies (ICTs) feel when using or not using different devices. Through ICTs emotion is amplified, shaped, stereotyped and re-invented but at the same time sacrificed. This book addresses a number of questions such as: What does electronic emotion actually mean? How does emotion change when mediated by information and communication technologies? How are the production and the consumption of electronic and mediated emotion articulated? What emotional investment do people express in ICTs? The editors have brought together a distinctive group of scholars from multiple disciplines including social sciences, linguistics and information sciences to discuss and provide some answers to these questions.

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