Emotions Online: Feelings and Affordances of Digital Media

ISBN-13: 9780367706654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str.

Australia) Petersen Alan (Monash University

Opis

Digital media have become deeply immersed in our lives, heightening both hopes and fears of their affordances. Emotions Online explores the visions that shape responses to media and the emotional regimes that govern people’s engagements with them.

Spis treści

1. Digital media and the emotions  2. The online emotional economy  3. Emotional abuse online  4. Hope online  5. Digital wellbeing  6. Digital media and future emotional life

O autorze

Alan Petersen is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia. His research interests include the sociology of health and medicine, science and technology studies, and gender studies. He is the author of Digital Health and Technological Promise: A Sociological Inquiry (2018), The Politics of Bioethics (2011), and The Body in Question: A Socio-Cultural Approach (2007), and co-author of The New Genetics and the Public’s Health (2001) and Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy (1999), among others.