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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797903503321

Autore

Coyne Richard

Titolo

Mood and mobility : navigating the emotional spaces of digital social networks / / Richard Coyne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2016]

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-262-33090-3

0-262-33089-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Disciplina

004.01/9

Soggetti

Digital media

Human-computer interaction - Psychological aspects

Mood (Psychology)

Online social networks - Psychological aspects

Web sites - Design

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-358) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; What Is a Mood?; Moved by the Mob; Captivated by Curiosity; Piqued by Pleasure; Addicted to Vertigo; Enveloped in Haze; Intoxicated by Color; Haunted by Media; Gripped by Suspense; Fogged by Ignorance; Aroused by Machines; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

We are active with our mobile devices; we play games, watch films, listen to music, check social media, and tap screens and keyboards while we are on the move. In Mood and Mobility, Richard Coyne argues that not only do we communicate, process information, and entertain ourselves through devices and social media; we also receive, modify, intensify, and transmit moods. Designers, practitioners, educators, researchers, and users should pay more attention to the moods created around our smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Drawing on research from a range of disciplines, including experimental psychology, phenomenology, cultural theory, and architecture, Coyne shows that



users of social media are not simply passive receivers of moods; they are complicit in making moods. Devoting each chapter to a particular mood -- from curiosity and pleasure to anxiety and melancholy -- Coyne shows that devices and technologies do affect people's moods, although not always directly. He shows that mood effects are transitional; different moods suit different occasions, and derive character from emotional shifts. Furthermore, moods are active; we enlist all the resources of human sociability to create moods. And finally, the discourse about mood is deeply reflexive; in a kind of meta-moodiness, we talk about our moods and have feelings about them. Mood, in Coyne's distinctive telling, provides a new way to look at the ever-changing world of ubiquitous digital technologies.