Routledge International Handbook of Emotions and Media

In times of a worldwide pandemic, the election of a new US president, "MeToo," and "Fridays for Future," to name but a few examples, one thing becomes palpable: the emotional impact of media on individuals and society cannot be underestimated. The relations between media, people, and society are to a great extent based on human emotions. Emotions are essential in understanding how media messages are processed and how media affect individual and social behavior as well as public social life. Adopting a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach to the study of emotions in the context of media, the second, entirely revised and updated, edition of Routledge International Handbook of Emotions and Media comprises areas such as evolutionary psychology, media psychology, media sociology, cultural studies, media entertainment, and political and digital communication. Leading experts from across the globe explore cutting-edge research on the role of emotion in selecting and processing media contents, the emotional consequences of media use, politics and public emotion, emotions in political communication and persuasion, as well as emotions in digital, interactive, and virtual encounters. This compelling and authoritative Handbook is an essential reference tool for scholars and students of media, communication science, media psychology, emotion, cognitive and social psychology, cultural studies, media sociology, and related fields.

Katrin Döveling is Full Professor in Media and Communication at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt. Elly A. Konijn is Full Professor in Media Psychology at the Department of Communication Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam.

Part I. Emotions and Media: From Motives to Meanings and Measurements 1. Emotions and the Media: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 2. The Descent of Emotions in Media: Darwinian Perspectives 3. Emotions are Key in Processing Media Messages: From Noise to Nucleus 4. The Measurement of Positive and Negative Affect in Media Research Part II. Emotions in the Selection and Processing of Media Content 5. The Role of Affect and Mood Management in Selective Exposure to Media Messages 6. Media-based Emotional Coping: Examining the Emotional Benefits and Pitfalls of Media Consumption 7. Tragic and Poignant Entertainment: The Gratifications of Meaningfulness 8. The Role of Morality in Emotional Responses to Entertainment Part III. Emotional Consequences of Media Use 9. The Affective Consequences of Media Use 10. The Influence of Form and Presentation Attributes of Traditional Media on Emotion 11. Fun Boxes to Empathy Machines: The Emotions of Digital Games 12. Disaster News and Public Emotions Part IV. Emotion and Media in Politics and Persuasion 13. Emotion, Media, and the Global Village 14. Creating Fear: Transforming Terrorist Attacks into Control and Consumption 15. The Role of Emotion in Persuasion 16. Embodied Politics and Emotional Expression in the Populist Era: Research Advances Amid a Disruptive Decade 17. Media, Politics, and Affect Part V. Emotions and Interactive Media 18. Emotionally Resonant Media: Advances in Sensing, Understanding, and Influencing Human Emotion Through Interactive Media 19. Nonverbal Synchrony, Media, and Emotion 20. Emotion and Digital Media: Emotion Regulation in Interactive, On-Demand, and Networked Media