New publication on electronic emotion edited by COST 298 members J. Vincent and L. Fortunati

09.11.09

Panel Discussion organised by Digital World Research Centre (DWRC):

 

‘Electronic emotion – how do you feel emotion in mediated environments?’

 

Wednesday 25 November 2009 | Room 21AC03 | 12:00 - 13:00pm

DWRC invite you to join the fourth in its Seminar Series, an event which is being held in conjunction with the launch of the new publication: ‘Electronic Emotion. The mediation of emotion via information and communication technologies’ edited by Jane Vincent and Leopoldina Fortunati, published in Professor Colin B. Grant’s Interdisciplinary Communications Studies series with Peter Lang Oxford.

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Programme

Introduction by Professor David Frohlich, Director DWRC

Panel Discussion 12.00pm - 13.00pm

Panel Presentations:

• Jane Vincent – Visiting Fellow Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences University of Surrey

• Dr Stephen Smith – Senior Lecturer in Emotion Labour, Brunel Business School, Brunel University

• (TBC) Tilde Bekker – Assistant Professor, Faculty of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology

 

The panellists will each give a short discourse on the topic and they will then take questions from the audience for a discussion chaired by Jane Vincent. Informal networking with light refreshments will follow the discussion.

 

Copies of the book will be available for sale or order at 30% off the list price of £33 during the seminar. Books may be ordered in advance at this price for collection on the day.

 

Please contact j.vincent@surrey.ac.uk for more details.

RSVP dwrc@surrey.ac.uk

 

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‘This book spotlights an understudied area - ICT and emotions - from multiple angles. We get treated to thoughtful distillations of existing bodies of work and are alerted to areas ripe for research. It is just the right book for getting the proverbial snowball rolling in an emerging area of research’

Harmeet Sawhney, Editor-in-Chief, ‘The Information Society’

 

‘Anyone interested in the socio-technical landscape of the 21st century ought to read this book. It provides an excellent history on debates about emotion and presents empirical studies of the contemporary world that show just how important emotion is.’

Richard Harper, Professor of Socio-Digital Systems, Principal Researcher,

Socio-Digital Systems Microsoft Research

 

‘At last an intelligent collection of essays which examines the emotions underlying much of our social relations with ICTs. An important contribution to our understanding of computer-mediated communication and new media technologies’

Brian Loader, Editor, ‘Information Communication and Society’

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