Innovative and highly up-to-date: brings together, for the first time, research on different aspects of the interrelations between emotions, the mass media, and society Multidisciplinary and integrative: consolidates research from a variety of disciplines under one unifying conceptual roof International scope: has a pronounced international scope and brings together researchers from Europe, Asia, the US, and Australia Uniqueness: in its approach to combine two obviously intertwined hallmarks of modern societies - the impact of mass media communications on individual as well as public...