This book explores how our moods are shaped and shared through our interactions with digital media. Richard Coyne argues that digital media goes beyond mere information exchange or entertainment; it not only reflects our moods but also transforms, amplifies, and enables their transmission to others.
Coyne demonstrates that these emotional effects extend beyond the moments we spend online. Our moods, ever shifting and evolving, take shape within digital environments. Drawing on insights from phenomenology, cultural theory, architecture, philosophy, and psychology, Coyne examines a range of emotional states --curiosity, melancholy, anxiety, and more-- one chapter at a time.
Sharing moods through digital platforms is not simply a reactive emotional gesture; it is a dynamic process that reshapes how we interact socially. Far from being passive consumers, users of digital media actively participate in constructing their emotional worlds. This book offers a fresh and thought-provoking perspective on how digital technologies and online spaces are transforming the emotional fabric of contemporary life.
