1st Edition

Emotion in the Digital Age Technologies, Data and Psychosocial Life

By Darren Ellis, Ian Tucker Copyright 2021
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

Emotion in the Digital Age examines how emotion is understood, researched and experienced in relation to practices of digitisation and datafication said to constitute a digital age . The overarching concern of the book is with how emotion operates in, through, and with digital technologies. The digital landscape is vast, and as such, the authors focus on four key areas of digital... Read more

1. Emotion in the Digital Age

2. The History and Emergence of Emotion-Technology Relations

3. Artificial Intelligence and Emotion

4. Social Media and Emotion

5. Digital Mental Health

6. Surveillance and Emotion

7. Digital Futures and Emotion

Biography

Darren Ellis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of East London, UK, and co-author of Social Psychology of Emotion.

Ian Tucker is Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of East London, UK, and co-author of Social Psychology of Emotion.

"In this book, the authors delve deep into the affective vibrancies and forces of digital life. As they show, feelings are the foundation of many online interactions and content. Feelings are aroused with and through the internet and compel us to want to stay engaged online - to upload, like, comment, share and post photos, videos, emojis, GIFs and memes. This book provides important insights into these processes."

Prof. Deborah Lupton, author of Data Selves: More-than-Human Perspectives (Polity) and Digital Food Cultures (Routledge)

"From affective atmospheres to woebots, from artificial intelligence to the emojification of the everyday, Darren Ellis and Ian Tucker pursue how bodies, collective and individual, are continually shifting in conjunction with technological and digital processes. Always empirically situated, Ellis and Tucker’s nuanced psycho-social approach to affect and emotion reveals possibilities for critical intervention into our contemporary moment while simultaneously opening pathways for future-oriented analyses to undertake."

 Prof. Gregory J. Seigworth, co-editor of the Affect Theory Reader (Duke University Press, 2010) and co-editor of Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry