Emotions Beyond Borders: Identity, Social Media and Affective Experiences In Digital Society
Emotions Beyond Borders: Identity, Social Media and Affective Experiences In Digital Society
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RC42 Social Psychology (host committee)
RC58 Society and Emotions
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
How do social media platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) influence people’s emotional experiences? How are global digital infrastructures based on artificial intelligence redefining identities and emotional expressions? How are users of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media platforms that utilise AI reshaping algorithmic structures?
Digital environments take up a significant amount of people’s daily lives. It is within these environments that people stay informed, communicate and also construct their identities. With the advent of artificial intelligence and the expansion of social media, the databases that formed the basis of digital infrastructure have become so complex that they have facilitated a personalised and ad hoc service tailored to the ways in which people consume content online.
In the field of emotions, digital infrastructures, together with algorithms, deliver a personalised experience that may be influencing the way in which people construct their identities and their emotional experiences. Whilst emotional expressions, such as moral outrage, solidarity or vulnerability, are deeply influenced by socialisation and cultural memories, they are also shaped by political polarisation, provoking emotional reactions on social media that in many cases become violent.
Digital environments take up a significant amount of people’s daily lives. It is within these environments that people stay informed, communicate and also construct their identities. With the advent of artificial intelligence and the expansion of social media, the databases that formed the basis of digital infrastructure have become so complex that they have facilitated a personalised and ad hoc service tailored to the ways in which people consume content online.
In the field of emotions, digital infrastructures, together with algorithms, deliver a personalised experience that may be influencing the way in which people construct their identities and their emotional experiences. Whilst emotional expressions, such as moral outrage, solidarity or vulnerability, are deeply influenced by socialisation and cultural memories, they are also shaped by political polarisation, provoking emotional reactions on social media that in many cases become violent.
This panel will present empirical data, theoretical and conceptual approaches, and methodological innovations to examine the tension between algorithmic emotional convergence and cultural differentiation, with the aim of describing how people (re)interpret and (re)configure digital spaces.
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