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Emotion Online

Theorizing Affect on the Internet

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Kristyn Gorton
      Pages 1-26
  3. Theoretical Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
    2. Theorizing Emotion and Affect

      • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Kristyn Gorton
      Pages 29-51
    3. Screening Emotion

      • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Kristyn Gorton
      Pages 52-74
    4. Global Emotion

      • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Kristyn Gorton
      Pages 75-100
  4. Close Readings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
    2. Social Media, Happiness, and Virtual Communities

      • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Kristyn Gorton
      Pages 103-125
    3. Emo-Techno-Ecology: Fear and Anger about Climate Change

      • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Kristyn Gorton
      Pages 126-152
    4. The Hate and Shame of Women’s Bodies Online

      • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Kristyn Gorton
      Pages 153-176
  5. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Joanne Garde-Hansen, Kristyn Gorton
      Pages 177-187
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 188-236

About this book

Travelling through theories of emotion and affect, this book addresses the key ways in which media studies can be brought to bear upon everyday encounters with online cultures and practices. The book takes stock of where we are emotionally with regard to the Internet in the context of other screen media.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK

    Joanne Garde-Hansen

  • Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York, UK

    Kristyn Gorton

About the authors

Joanne Garde-Hansen is Reader in Media and has published Save As…Digital Memories (with Hoskins and Reading, 2009), Media and Memory (2011) and Geography and Memory (with Jones, 2012). She is Associate Professor of Culture, Media and Communication at the University of Warwick, UK.

Kristyn Gorton is Senior Lecturer in Television Studies at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Theorising Desire: From Freud to Feminism to Film (2008) and Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion (2009). She has written numerous articles on television and film for journals such as Critical Studies in Television, Studies in European Cinema and the Journal of British Film and Television.

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