Emotions Online - Feelings and Affordances of Digital Media

List of contents

1. Digital media and the emotions 2. The online emotional economy 3. Emotional abuse online 4. Hope online 5. Digital wellbeing 6. Digital media and future emotional life

About the author

Alan Petersen is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia. His research interests include the sociology of health and medicine, science and technology studies, and gender studies. He is the author of Digital Health and Technological Promise: A Sociological Inquiry (2018), The Politics of Bioethics (2011), and The Body in Question: A Socio-Cultural Approach (2007), and co-author of The New Genetics and the Public’s Health (2001) and Poststructuralism, Citizenship and Social Policy (1999), among others.

Summary

Digital media have become deeply immersed in our lives, heightening both hopes and fears of their affordances. Emotions Online explores the visions that shape responses to media and the emotional regimes that govern people’s engagements with them.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Petersen, Alan (Monash University Petersen, Petersen Alan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9780367706678
• ISBN: 978-0-367-70667-8
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Personal & public health, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology: emotions, Society and culture: general, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Legal aspects of IT, Human–computer interaction, Medical Sociology, Personal and public health / health education, COMPUTERS / Internet / Online Safety & Privacy, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects