1st Edition

Mediatisation of Emotional Life

Edited By Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Mateusz Sobiech Copyright 2022
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

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.... Read more

Introduction
Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Mateusz Sobiech

Part I
Conceptualisations: Mediatisation of Feelings, Emotions and Relationships

1. Mediatisation of Emotional Life: Theories, Concepts and Approaches
Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech

2. Media Love: On the Mediatisation of Love and Our Love for Media
Mark Deuze

3. Emotion Artificial Intelligence: Deep Mediatised and Machine-reflected Self-emotions
Katalin Feher

4. Geomediatization: A Dialectical Approach to Close Social Relationship Dependence, Normalization and Adaptation
Helena Atteneder

Part II
Analysis: Challenges Caused by Mediation to Relationships

5. Love: Interpretative Film Strategy
Jono Van Belle

6. Intimacy: Different Dimensions of Mediated Relational Lives
Jamie Foster Campbell

7. Attention and Affective Proximity: Alleviating Loneliness and Isolation Through Virtual Girlfriends and Boyfriends
Inge van de Ven

8. Romantic Communication: Affordances and Practices of Mobile (Dis)connection
Anastasia Nikitina

9. Friendship: Communicative Negotiation in Proximity and Distance
Jeannine Teichert

10. Family Relations: Emotional Overload
Tiina Räisä

Part III
Explorations: Key Aspect of Emotional Lives with Media

11. Moving Pictures Creating Emotions: The Film Makers Emotional Strategies in Pandemic
Iwona Grodź

12. Identity Formation: Mediated Resilience of Women Who Go Through Romantic Break-ups
Sucheta Lahiri

13. Loneliness: Generational Differences in Interpersonal Relationships of Users
Valentina Marinescu, Daniela Roventa, Silvia Branea, Ramona Marinache, Bianca Fox

14. FoMO: Envy, Life Satisfaction and Friendship
Charles H. Davis, Szymon Zylinski

15. Erotic Experience: Technology-Mediated Sex Markets
Lorena Caminhas

Biography

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

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