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.
Chapters 5 and 10 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
Introduction; Part I Conceptualisations: Mediatisation of Feelings, Emotions and Relationships; 1. Mediatisation of Emotional Life: Theories, Concepts and Approaches; 2. Media Love: On the Mediatisation of Love and Our Love for Media; 3. Emotion Artificial Intelligence: Deep Mediatised and Machine-reflected Self-emotions; 4. Geomediatization: A Dialectical Approach to Close Social Relationship Dependence, Normalization and Adaptation; Part II Analysis: Challenges Caused by Mediation to Relationships; 5. Love: Interpretative Film Strategy; 6. Intimacy: Different Dimensions of Mediated Relational Lives; 7. Attention and Affective Proximity: Alleviating Loneliness and Isolation Through Virtual Girlfriends and Boyfriends; 8. Romantic Communication: Affordances and Practices of Mobile (Dis)connection; 9. Friendship: Communicative Negotiation in Proximity and Distance; 10. Family Relations: Emotional Overload; Part III Explorations: Key Aspect of Emotional Lives with Media; 11. Moving Pictures Creating Emotions: The Film Makers Emotional Strategies in Pandemic; 12. Identity Formation: Mediated Resilience of Women Who Go Through Romantic Break-ups; 13. Loneliness: Generational Differences in Interpersonal Relationships of Users; 14. FoMO: Envy, Life Satisfaction and Friendship; 15. Erotic Experience: Technology-Mediated Sex Markets
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.
