Emotions in Digital Interactions

Irene Rafanell is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of Scotland, UK, where she teaches on gender theory, sociology of the body, social theory and theories of power. She is an Honorary Fellow and a member of the Center for Research on Families and Relationships of the School of Social and Political Studies at Edinburgh University, UK. Her work explores the connections between social theory, social constructionism, sociology of knowledge and the body. Her book Sexed and Gendered Bodies as Social Institutions will be published by Palgrave. She is currently developing research on digital sociology and sociology of emotions analyzing digital communicative interactions. Maja Sawicka is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology of Warsaw University, Poland. In her work, she focuses on emotions perceived as social phenomena, investigating the links between culture, interactional group processes, and individual emotional experiences. She has a wide teaching experience in the field of Social Psychology and Qualitative Research Methods. She is the author of Emotions in Interactions in the Contemporary Polish Society (2018, in Polish).

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: What Counts as Social "Reality?".- Chapter 3: Emotions as Products of the Social: Extrinsic Accounts.- Chapter 4: Emotions as Constitutive Methods: An Intrinsic Account of the Social.- Chapter 5: Emergence of Collectives as "Status Groups".- Chapter 6: Methodology and Methods of Data Collection.- Chapter 7: Emotional Deviance and New Emotional Reality.- Chapter 8: Concluding Points: Theoretical Models, Social Reality and Every-day "Practice".