Mood and mobility
Subtitle: navigating the emotional spaces of digital social networks
By: Richard Coyne
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780262029759
Subjects: Digital media; Design; Online social networks; Mood (Psychology); Psychological aspects; Web sites; Human-computer interaction
Description: 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.  -- Provided by publisher.

Drawng 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 moodfrom curiosity and pleasure to anxiety and melancholyCoyne shows that devices and technologies do affect peoples 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 Coynes distinctive telling, provides a new way to look at the ever-changing world of ubiquitous digital technologies.  -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-358) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: What is a mood?; title: Moved by the mob; title: Captivated by curiosity; title: Piqued by pleasure; title: Addicted to vertigo; title: Enveloped in haze; title: Intoxicated by color; title: Haunted by media; title: Gripped by suspense; title: Fogged by ignorance; title: Aroused by machines; title: Epilogue: From head to world.