Emotions, Technology, and Social Media

ISBN-13: 9780128018576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 188 str.

Sharon Tettegah

Opis

Emotions, Technology, and Social Media discusses the ways the social media sphere uses emotion and technology, and how each of these has become part of the digital culture. The book explores this expression within a psychological theoretical framework, addressing feelings about social media, and its role in education and knowledge generation. The second section investigates the expression of feelings within social media spaces, while subsequent sections adopt a paradigm of active audience consumption to use social media to express feelings and maintain social connectivity.

• Discusses the significant relationships between Web 2.0 technologies and learning traits
• Presents studies about Facebook usage and individual emotional states
• Investigates the shared emotions in the construction of "cyberculture"
• Shows the extent to which scientists use social media in their work, and the ways in which they use the social media
• Analyzes the consequences of the online disinhibition effect
• Examines YouTube as a source of opinions and discussions which can be used to track the emotions evoked by videos and the emotions expressed through textual comments
• Details how Reddit users' media choices are emotionally useful and gratifying in the "memeplex"
• Links social interaction and the emotional life with that of digital devices and resources

Recenzje

"...brings an eclectic combination of essays together, allowing the reader to explore this topic from many vantage points." --PsycCRITIQUES

Spis treści

I. FEELINGS ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA 1. Investigating Students' Feelings toward Web 2.0 Technologies in an Undergraduate Course 2. Human Emotions in Facebook 3. Students' perceptions towards the use of Facebook in formal learning 4. Emotions and Cognitions of Scientists towards Social Media (Web 2.0) and its Professional Use

II. FEELINGS IN SOCIAL MEDIA SPACE 5. The role of shared emotions in the construction of Cyberculture: From Cultural Industries to Cultural Actions (The case of Crowdfunding) 6. Facebook Use and Academic Outcomes Among Securely and Insecurely Attached Learners 7. Affect, People and Digital Networks 8. Understanding emotional expressions in social media through educational data mining

III. FEELINGS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA-AUDIENCE USES AND GRATIFICATIONS 9. The Digital Wall: Social Media's Disinhibiting Effect on Adolescent Behavior 10. Emotions in the Social Web 11. Motivation and Gratification in the Reddit Memeplex 12. Emotions And Social Interaction In The Digital Age

O autorze

Sharon Tettegah is a Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Former Program Chair of Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching and Agency in the College of Education, at the University of Illinois, at Urbana Champaign. She has an appointment in the Cognitive Neuroscience in Bio-Intelligence at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. In addition, she is a Research Scientist and affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Her research centers on the intersection of STEM learning, Emotions, Equity and Social justice. She was also a Program Director in 2010-2012 at the National Science Foundation where she managed five programs in the Directorates of Education and Human Resources, Computer and Information Science and Engineering and including a NSF cross-cutting program on Science, Engineering, Education for Sustainability (SEES). She is also the Series Editor for Emotions and Technology with Elsevier, Academic Psychology Division.