Emo phenomenon – An actual problem in adolescence

Munteanu, Anca; Costea, Iuliana; Paloş, Ramona; Jinaru, Adrian; Dragomir, Gabriel-Mugurel

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.03.339

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“…Scholars note how this affective disposition implicit in emo music-fatalistic and dark, yet dramaticbolsters the subculture's appeal to not only youths who feel misunderstood, marginalized and excluded from mainstream society (Carrillo-Vincent 2013;Fathallah 2010) but also teenagers and young people in general because it speaks to the emotionally charged tensions of growing up and coming-of-age in modern society (Trager 2018). To this end, research generally observes that emo music invokes themes of social rejection and alienation, loneliness, heartbreak, and turbulent social relationships (Carrillo-Vincent 2013), with numerous studies emphasizing emo music's preoccupation with depression, anxiety, self-contempt, self-harm, and suicide (e.g., Arunrangsiwed and Arunrangsiwed 2019;Trnka 2017;Munteanu et al 2011). While these thematic qualities are readily identified in emo music, studies evince a range of empirical subjects in explaining these themes in relation to various facets of emo identities and experience, such as style, gender, and moral panic.…”

Section: Emotive Themes In Emo Musicmentioning

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“…Most of the research on emo and moral panic address the subculture's ostensible "glorification" of depression and "advocation" for practices around self-harm and suicide. Munteanu et al (2011), for example, argue that emo subculture fosters intense emotional experiences centered around negativity, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and the glamorization of selfdestructive behaviors and tendencies. The authors also note that the subculture comprises an exclusive group built around these emotions, which exacerbates social isolation, the absence of healthy and adaptive interpersonal relationships, and emotional distress.…”

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Self-images, emotions, and music videos: studying reflexivity and the emergence of subcultural selves for 'emo kids' in Singapore

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In this thesis, I investigate the ways that interactions with music videos shapes emotions and sense of self for participants of the emo subculture in Singapore (comprising those who self-identify as 'emo kids'). My interest is in how music videos become symbolic, reflexive resources for youths as meaningful, subcultural self-meanings and self-images emerge-in other words, how they began to see themselves as emo kids during their teenage years. Specifically, I explore how these self-images represent reflexive, emotionbased embodiments that culminate towards the emergence of meaningful subcultural selves in emo kids' everyday lives. Based on interviews with 15 emo kids, my analysis focuses on interpretive processes of meaning-making as interviewees interacted with various emo music videos from the early 2000s-2010s. Taking a grounded approach, I draw from both socio-cognitive and symbolic interactionist frameworks as sensitizing concepts that are useful to unpack my findings and analysis. Overall, my emo kid interviewees expressed that interacting with emo music videos on YouTube facilitated three ways of reflexively "seeing themselves in music videos". First, self-images embedded in music videos represented ways that my participants were able to internally articulate discrete feelings and reflexively understand these emotional embodiments as "feeling emo". Second, self-images embedded in music videos represented ways that my participants could reflexively embody a subcultural worldview grounded in affective, social dispositions. These self-images were made meaningful as "naturally seeing myself as an emo kid". Third, self-images embedded in music videos represented ways that my participants reflexively embodied a subcultural experience of self-awareness-an affective subcultural meta-reflexivity. These self-images were described as "seeing myself as emo kids see themselves". Overall, I discuss how these findings about digital media interactivity and reflexive, emotional embodiments relate to the ideas about subcultures, self-making, and sociality. This study thus offers important insights that bridge central concerns across the fields of self and identity, sociology of emotions, subcultures, music sociology, and digital media studies.

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Section: Emotive Themes In Emo Musicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-images, emotions, and music videos: studying reflexivity and the emergence of subcultural selves for 'emo kids' in Singapore

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There and Back Again: Linking Online and Offline Spaces in/of Czech Emo Subculture

Heřmanský

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Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music

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Young Adults' Mental Illness Aesthetics on Social Media

Vidamaly

Lee

2021

International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning

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Social media posts expressing mental illness such as depression are trending in today's society. The aesthetics of dark and depressing posts are highlighted in blogs or social media accounts of young individuals. Consequently, this study investigated why young people use mental illness as an aesthetic on social media. On top of that, this study contributes to the limited body of research on this subject. This study applied a method known as netnography, an analysis of social interactions online. Furthermore, the actor-network theory (ANT) was employed as an analytical tool to explore insights and draw conclusions. Seven mediators were identified as possible causes that prompted mental illness aesthetic use, including Tumblr, media, attention seekers, coping mechanism, victimhood, emo culture, and mental health awareness. These findings provided insights into developing interventions and systematic methods to discuss mental illness properly. This study also identified current challenges in social media research regarding mental illness detection.

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Emo phenomenon – An actual problem in adolescence

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Self-images, emotions, and music videos: studying reflexivity and the emergence of subcultural selves for 'emo kids' in Singapore

Self-images, emotions, and music videos: studying reflexivity and the emergence of subcultural selves for 'emo kids' in Singapore

There and Back Again: Linking Online and Offline Spaces in/of Czech Emo Subculture

Young Adults' Mental Illness Aesthetics on Social Media

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