Emotion Online Theorizing Affect on the Internet

by Garde-Hansen, Joanne; Gorton, Kristyn

• ISBN13: 9780230283770
• ISBN10: 0230283772
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-05-28
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Emotion Online: Theorizing Affect on the Internet takes stock of where we are emotionally with regards to the Internet in social and cultural terms. Online users are switching between personal, national, international and global modes of being and feeling that shape private and public experiences. Drawing upon the well-established discipline of media studies, the book travels theoretically through, across, in and between examples of traditional media as they merge and emerge online. Garde-Hansen and Gorton explore how we feel about, and how we feel in, our online media ecology in the context of global media platforms.

Author Biography

Joanne Garde-Hansen is Reader in Media and has published Save As…Digital Memories (with Hoskins and Reading, 2009), Media and Memory (2011) and Geography and Memory (with Jones, 2012). She is Associate Professor of Culture, Media and Communication at the University of Warwick, UK.

Kristyn Gorton is Senior Lecturer in Television Studies at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Theorising Desire: From Freud to Feminism to Film (2008) and Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion (2009). She has written numerous articles on television and film for journals such as Critical Studies in Television, Studies in European Cinema and the Journal of British Film and Television.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: THEORETICAL APPROACHES
1. Theorizing Emotion and Affect
2. Screening Emotion
3. Global Emotion
PART II: CLOSE READINGS
4. Social Media, Happiness and Virtual Communities
5. Emo-techno-ecology: Fear and Anger about Climate Change
6. The Hate and Shame of Women's Bodies Online
Conclusion