Emotions in the Digital World

This volume will examine the ways in which rapidly changing technologies and patterns of media use influence, and are influenced by, our emotional experiences. Through a social science lens, the contributing authors explore how technology shapes our emotional experiences, offering readers a nuanced, interdisciplinary perspective on this increasingly relevant social phenomenon.

Robin L. Nabi is Professor of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters on the role of emotion in media processes and effects, with particular emphasis on media use and well-being and the persuasive effect of emotion-based messages. She co-edited the SAGE Handbook of Media Processes and Effects and served as a managing editor of Media Psychology. She was inaugurated as a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2017.
Jessica Gall Myrick is Donald P. Bellisario Professor of Health Communication in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State University. Her research examines the interplay of emotional and cognitive processes in shaping audience responses to media messages about health, science, and the environment. Myrick also studies the role of media coverage of celebrities and pets in shaping our culture and health-related attitudes and behaviors. Her research has been featured by news outlets across the globe.

PART 1: FOUNDATIONS OF EMOTION AND DIGITAL MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY
Ch 1: Perspectives on Emotion in the Digital Age
Chris Skurka and Robin L. Nabi
Ch 2: Emotions and Technological Affordances
Elizabeth Cohen and Jessica Gall Myrick
PART II: EXPERIENCING EMOTIONS IN DIGITAL CONTEXTS
Ch 3: Psychophysiological Responses to using Digital Media
Russell B. Clayton
Ch 4: Media and Emotions: Insights from a Neuroscience Perspective
Matt Minich, Ran Tao, and Christopher N. Cascio
Ch 5: Social Media and the Social Brain
Mary E. Andrews, Rui Pei, Nina Lauharatanahirun, Alexandra M. Paul, and Emily B. Falk
Ch 6: Computational Sentiment Analysis: Promises and Pitfalls
Yotam Ophir and Dror Walter
Ch 7: Virtual Reality and Emotion: A 5-year Systematic Review of Empirical Research (2015-2019)
David M. Markowitz and Jeremy N. Bailenson
PART III: ONLINE WELL-BEING: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Ch 8: Social Media Use, Emotional Experiences, and Well-Being: A Consideration of Anxiety, Depression, and Hope
Robin L. Nabi, Lara Wolfers, and Jesse King
Ch 9: The Role of Emotion in Maladaptive Internet Use: Internet Addiction, Problematic Internet Use, and Deficient Self-Regulation
Stephen A. Rains and Robert S. Tokunaga
Ch 10: Online Social Aggression: Harassment and Discrimination
Jesse Fox
Ch 11: Social Media and Mental Health: Reviewing Effects on Eudaimonic Well-Being
Adrian Meier and Leonard Reinecke
Ch 12: Online Inspiration
Mary Beth Oliver and Arthur A. Raney
PART IV: SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DYNAMICS OF ONLINE INTERACTION
Ch13: Social Media Self-Presentation and Emotion: Evidence of Selective Self-Presentation, Self-Affirmation, and Social Sharing
Catalina L. Toma
Ch 14: Online Hate: A Prosocial Explanation of Antisocial Behavior and Affordances of Social Media
Joseph B. Walther
Ch 15: Media Use and Empathy
Marie-Louise Mares and Susan S. Kong
Ch 16: Online Emotional Social Support and Coping with Stress and Crises
Jessica Gall Myrick, Rachelle L. Pavelko, and Olivia Cohen
Ch 17: Social Media, Jealousy, and Romantic Relationships
Sonja Utz
PART V: ENGAGEMENT WITH ONLINE INFORMATION
Ch 18: Emotion and Online Information Selection
Kate T. Luong and Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick
Ch 19: Emotion, Information Sharing, and Social Media
Ariel Hasell and Robin L. Nabi
Ch 20: Emotion, Affective Polarization, and Online Communication
Yphtach Lelkes and Sean Fischer
Ch 21: Emotion, Digital Media, and Misinformation
Brian E. Weeks
Ch 22: Love Bombs and Twitter Terror: Emotion and Affect in Terrorist Websites and Other Online Media
Sean Aday