Media today are emotion initiators. Daily news on the Covid-19 pandemic may fill us with fear, concern, and worries for our health. We follow news updates on elections and crises with concern and hope. We may feel overjoyed engaging in social interaction in social media with close friends who may be far away. We feel relieved watching a movie, listening to music, regulating our emotions in interactive media systems (such as virtual and augmented reality), on-demand entertainment media.
These examples show: Emotions and media need to be studied from a wide array of perspectives, each bringing distinctive insights. The Routledge International Handbook of Emotions and Media (Döveling, Konijn 2021) provides an up-to date- inter/transdisciplinary understanding of emotion and media reaching from psychologists to sociologists and media and communication perspectives.
Aiming to represent the different insights, this class will engage in discourse on these highly relevant interdisciplinary schools of emotion research and discuss fruitful perspectives that are elaborated in the Routledge International Handbook of Emotions and Media by experts from all over the globe. The Students will actively reflect on emotions in their lives and comprehend emotions in daily interactions on a micro-, a meso- and a macro level. The benefits and challenges implicated in crossing disciplines that study emotions and media, from mediatized emotion to digital affect cultures (Döveling et al 2018) are discussed. Potentially, special international guests may be invited giving insight into their contribution to the understanding of emotions and media.
Literature:
Döveling, K. & E. A. Konijn (Ed.) (2021). Routledge International Handbook of Emotions and Media. London: Routledge. Online in the library of Hda
Bowman, N, D., Cohen, E., Döveling, K. (2021). Emotion and digital media: Emotion regulation in interactive, on-demand, and networked media. In K. Döveling & E. A. Konijn (Ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Emotions and Media. (316-328). London: Routledge. Online in the library of Hda: https://hds.hebis.de/hda/Record/HEB488856094