1st Edition

Emotion, Embodiment and the Virtual World Interactions within the Virtualization Process of Life

By Vincenzo Auriemma Copyright 2025
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book seeks to understand emotions in the virtual world. It explores embodiment, hybridization, and emotions within interactions mediated by a virtual avatar. The work aims to contribute to reflection within the sociology of emotion, creating a line of continuity that starts from the classical concept of empathy, passing through its virtualization and arriving at the transformation of... Read more

Preface by Adrian Scribano

Part I: Overview

Introduction

1. Embodiment and Avatars: Analysis and Investigation in the Virtual World

Part II: Emotions, Relationships, and Interactions, the Virtualization of Lives

2. Empathy and Technology: Virtualized Emotions, Haptic Feedback, and Virtualization of the Body

3. Love, Digital Sexuality, and Artificial Intelligence

4. Anger and Fear in the Virtualized World

Part III: Virtualization and Society: Virtual Squares, Languages and Modes of Interaction

5. Languages and Slang: The Twitch Generation

6. Social Emotions on the Internet

7. Representation of Daily Life Online

Part IV: The Other Side of Virtualization: Risks and Dangers in the Virtual World

8. Virtual City: Lawlessness and Discrimination

9. Dark Web and Deep Web

Conclusions

Biography

Vincenzo Auriemma is PhD in sociology from the University of Salerno, Italy, and his interests are related to empathy and transdisciplinary analysis between sociology and social neuroscience. He is currently working on two researches aimed at analysing empathy within work groups and emotional embodiment in the metaverse. He collaborates with various structures and institutions to promote neurosociology in Italy. Recently, several of his articles related to the concept of embodiment in the metaverse and a monograph on empathy have been published.