This book presents an introduction to strategies for qualitative digital social research on emotions in a digital world.
The book emphasizes the connections that exist between emotional ecologies, emotions as texts, and the virtual / mobile / digital world that brings us closer to a hermeneutics of the practices of feeling. In the context of -Society 4.0-, the book explores:
- Changes in the organization of daily life and work in virtual, mobile and digital environments.
- The impact of apps and social networks on sensations, emotions and sensibilities.
- Necessary changes in social research to employ the power of these apps and networks for social enquiry.
As such, this book shares a set of social inquiry practices developed and applied to capture and understand emotions today. It should be considered as a first step in a long journey of exploring the close connections between sensibilities, emotions, and social research me
