Electronic Emotion

This book spotlights an understudied area ICT and emotions from multiple angles. We get treated to thoughtful distillations of existing bodies of work and are alerted to areas ripe for research. It is just the right book for getting the proverbial snowball rolling in an emerging area of research. (Harmeet Sawhney, Editor-in-Chief, The Information Society) Anyone interested in the socio-technical landscape of the 21st century ought to read this book. It provides an excellent history on debates about emotion and presents empirical studies of the contemporary world that show just how important emotion is. (Richard Harper, Professor of Socio-Digital Systems, Principal Researcher, Socio-Digital Systems Microsoft Research) At last an intelligent collection of essays which examines the emotions underlying much of our social relations with ICTs. An important contribution to our understanding of computer-mediated communication and new media technologies. (Brian Loader, Editor, Information Communication and Society)

The Editors: Jane Vincent is Visiting Fellow at the University of Surreys Digital World Research Centre. Leopoldina Fortunati is Professor of the Sociology of Communication at the Faculty of Education, University of Udine.

Contents: Leopoldina Fortunati/Jane Vincent: Introduction Leopoldina Fortunati: Old and New Media, Old Emotion Joachim R. Hflich: Mobile Phone Calls and Emotional Stress Satomi Sugiyama: Decorated Mobile Phones and Emotional Attachment for Japanese Youths Naomi Baron: The Myth of Impoverished Signal: Dispelling the Spoken Language Fallacy for Emoticons in Online Communication Maria Bortoluzzi: An Inconvenient Truth: Multimodal Emotions in Identity Construction Tom Denison/Stefanie Kethers/Nicholas McPhee: Implementing E-Research Environments: The Importance of Trust Jane Vincent: Emotion, My Mobile, My Identity Giuseppina Pellegrino: Learning from Emotions Towards ICTs: Boundary Crossing and Barriers in Technology Appropriation.