Emotions, Technology, and Behaviors: (Emotions and Technology)

Exploring the connections between technology, emotions, and behaviors is increasingly important as we spend more and more time online and in digital environments. Technology, Emotions, and Behavior explains the role of technology in the evolution of both emotions and behaviors, and their interaction with each other. It discusses emotion modeling, distraction, and contagion as related to digital narrative and virtual spaces. It examines issues of trust and technology, behaviors used by individuals who are cut off from technology, and how individuals use technology to cope after disasters such as Hurricane Sandy. Technology, Emotions and Behaviors ends by exploring the construct of empathy and perspective-taking through online videos and socially shared activities. Practitioners and researchers will find this text useful in their work.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Looking Back at the Enlightenment to Understand Contemporary Relationships Between Technology, Science, and the Emotional Life of Human Beings Chapter 2: Postmodernity and Online Intimacy: from Virtual Communities to Facebook Chapter 3: Enactive Emotion and Virtual Environments Chapter 4: Cultural and Gender Differences in Communicative Feedback Expressing Agreement Chapter 5: Emotion Modeling in Digital Narrative: Computational Approaches Chapter Six: Interactions between Emotional Distractions and Cognitive Load Chapter 7: Emotional Contagion and Socialization into Virtual Interaction Chapter 8: How, When, and Why Do We Trust Technology Too Much? Chapter 9: Disconnect to Connect--Emotional Responses to Loss of Technology During Hurricane Sandy Chapter 10: Pathos and Punishment--The Emotional Appeal of Digilante Rhetoric Chapter 11: Cyberbullying and its Emotional Consequences--What We Know and What We Can Do Chapter 12: Emotions in Social Computer Games--Relations with Bullying, Aggression, and School Belonging Chapter 13: Empathy Online Chapter 14: Emotions as Modulators of Perspective Taking in Digital Environments

About the Author :
Sharon Tettegah is a faculty member and Program Chair of Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching and Agency in the College of Education, at the University of Illinois, at Urbana Champaign. She also has an appointment in the Cognitive Neuroscience in Bio-Intelligence and Human Computer Interaction at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. In addition, she is a Research Scientist and affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Her research centers on the intersection of STEM learning, Emotions, Equity and Social justice. She was also a Program Director in 2010-2012 at the National Science Foundation where she managed five programs in the Directorates of Education and Human Resources, Computer and Information Science and Engineering and including a NSF cross-cutting program on Science, Engineering, Education for Sustainability (SEES). Dorothy L. Espelage, Ph.D., is an Edward William Gutgsell & Jane Marr Gutgsell Endowed Professor and Hardie Scholar of Education, in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is an University Scholar and has fellow status in Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) and recent recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Prevention Science of the American Psychological Association. She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Indiana University in 1997. She has conducted research on bullying, homophobic teasing, sexual harassment, dating violence, and gang violence for the last 20 years. As a result, she presents regularly at regional, national, and international conferences and is author on over 120 peer-reviewed journal articles and 25 chapters. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, Immediate Past Vice-President of Division E (Counseling/Human Development) of the American Educational Research Association, and co-Director of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence. She has presented thousands of workshops and in-service training seminars for teachers, administrators, counselors, and social workers across the U.S.