Article ID: CBB471103837

How Do You Feel? Managing Emotional Reaction, Conveyance, and Detachment on Facebook and Instagram (2017)

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Studies of social media and its uses have focused on how it shapes behavior but less so with emotion. Overcoming this limitation, this article investigates the role of emotion in understanding and shaping actions online, and how, conversely, different uses of social media are leveraged to manage and express emotions, focusing on Facebook and Instagram. To this end, this article draws on 24 in-depth interviews with youth users in Hong Kong to excavate practices of emotional labor and management online, which reveal (1) strategies to manage emotional reactions, centering on critical distance; (2) strategies to manage emotional conveyance by manipulating the temporality of the content they produce; and (3) the creation of a digital blasé that consisted of the atmosphere of Facebook and Instagram, sustained by general emotional detachment, the perceived need to detach, and a sense of “watchedness”. Throughout, emotional detachment was the default state that users entered into when using Facebook and Instagram, as an anticipatory reaction to the emotional exhaustion imposed by imagined content and into which they inevitably returned.

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Authors & Contributors
Christian M. Jones
Mandy de Wilde
Tibor Dessewffy
Dániel Váry
Jennifer Jetter
Agnieszka Rychwalska
Concepts
Social media
Users of technology
Internet
social networking (online)
Technology and society
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
21st century
Places
Middle and Near East
United States
Hungary
Canada
Australia
Korea
Institutions
Facebook (firm)
Twitter (firm)
Google (firm)
LinkedIn (firm)
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