Mediatisation of Emotional Life

Mediatisation of Emotional Life

Edited by Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech and Mateusz Sobiech

This volume brings together an international team of authors to investigate a wide range of issues concerning the fundamental role of media technologies in shaping contemporary emotional life. Chapters explore key aspects of the mediatisation of emotional life, feelings and interpersonal relations: love, intimacy, loneliness, friendship, family relations, erotic, sexual and romantic experiences.

The authors explain the key aspects of strong user–media relationships and human relationships based on media use and investigate problems such as the formation of identity based on social media, the role of communication applications and the effects of mobile and locative media on our relationships, as well as artificial intelligence, on our perception of our emotions. With a focus on new media, the book also draws on the scope of traditional media that express and shape emotions, taking into account the classic approaches to emotionality of messages from the perspective of film creators and recipients.

This cutting-edge collection will be of interest to scholars and students of media and communication studies, especially digital media and new technologies, psychology, pedagogy, sociology of everyday life and cultural studies.

Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license

Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license

Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech is Assistant Professor with Habilitation at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland, and member of IAMCR.

Mateusz Sobiech is a doctoral student in the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

The above text is from the publisher’s description of the book:

Title: Mediatisation of Emotional Life
Editors: Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech and Mateusz Sobiech
Published: 2022
Pages: 266
Publisher: Routledge

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