The Unavoidable Intentionality of Affect: The History of Emotions and the Neurosciences of the Present Day

Reddy, William M.

doi:10.1177/1754073920930781

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“…Eight types of emotion were coded: happiness, moved, sadness, disgust, anger, fear, resonance, and awe (Reddy, 2020). Based on the content of each post, coders are required to first see whether there is any specific emotion expressed (0 ="no," 1 ="yes").…”

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Toward discourse involution within China’s Internet: Class, voice, and social media

Sun

Zhao²,

Liu³

et al. 2020

New Media & Society

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Despite scholarly concern regarding the online discussion in China’s cyberspace, research tracing the trends in discourse expression on social media remains scant. Revolving around the concept of discursive power, this study explicates how the voices of different social classes have been represented and expressed in social media during the past decade. Employing longitudinal content analysis on class-based voice in 2009 ( n = 1374) and 2018 ( n = 25,330), the results demonstrate that online discussion in China’s social media has displayed a trend for “discourse involution,” where the increasing appropriation of the Internet among different social classes results in a continued divide of the discursive power in cyberspace. We argue that this discourse involution is achieved through the asymmetry of discursive expression, centralization of voice representation, and polarization in the emotional expression online. The study contributes to the current debate on the social effects of online discussions using a discursive and class-based approach.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward discourse involution within China’s Internet: Class, voice, and social media

Sun

Zhao²,

Liu³

et al. 2020

New Media & Society

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“…Affect and emotion have been areas of research and investigation for millennia and can be found deeply embedded in the works of both Aristotle and Plato (Ellis and Tucker, 2015: 15–16; Plato, 261:580e). Over time, related terms such as ‘passions’ from Descartes and ‘affectus’ from Spinoza have built from equally lengthy traditions derived from the concept of emotion and its etymological derivation from ‘movement’ from the Latin word ‘motus’ that St. Augustine employed in his thinking (Ellis and Tucker, 2015: 40; Augustine, 1958: 303–4) and have been valuably integrated into the extensive recent studies of the cultural history of emotion (Lynch et al, 2019; Reddy, 2020). In the last 30 years, areas such as affective computing (Picard, 2000) and affective neuroscience have positioned affect as the precursor of emotion and cognition (Fox, 2018; Fox et al, 2018; Picard, 2000; Ellis and Tucker, 2021).…”

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Correlating affect and emotion: Covidiquette and the expanding curation of online persona(s)

Marshall

2022

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Over the last 25 years, major research in media and cultural studies has investigated the play of affect in our cultures. ‘Affect’, as a term derived from its neurophysiological and psychological origins, defines the particular movement of feeling from sensation to its attribution as an identifiable emotion. This article explores the way that ‘affect’ to emotion is being curated online by users particularly of social media as they learn to structure how they are perceived in online culture by others. It also investigates how the specific correlating of affect to emotion is one of the essential algorithmically generated activities of social media and online corporations. To discern this flow of affect and emotion, the article works to identify how this online cultural pandemic has intersected with the COVID-19 pandemic and produced a new level and intensity of affect and emotion curation as greater parts of our connected cultures are being managed and moderated by ourselves as well as governments, corporations and institutions. The neologism ‘covidiquette’ is used to describe this new form of online curation of cultures, and a further pandemic expansion of this movement of affect into attribution – transnationally, governmentally and commercially. Key pathways for investigating this correlation – and curation – of affect are analysed in this paper during 2020 and 2021 and the ever-presence of COVID-19 and its unique capacity to produce a proliferation of sharing, connection and – critically – surveillance.

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“…There has been a wide range of theories about what emotions consist of and how to classify them. 45 One popular approach, known widely as basic emotions theory, posits that there are a limited number of genetically programmed emotionshappiness, sadness, interest, fear, anger, and disgust are the ones generally agreed on -and that all affective experiences are built on combinations or variations of these basic emotions. 46 Basic emotions theory is appealing for its simplicity and intuitive credibility.…”

Section: Conclusion: Theories Of Emotion and Social Implicationsmentioning

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Neuroscience of Emotion, Cognition, and Decision Making: A Review

Levine

2022

MRAJ

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The traditional idea of emotion and cognition in Western culture is that emotion is separate from, and inferior to, cognition. This article reviews results from experimental neuroscience that refute this notion and support the idea that emotion and cognition are partners that depend on each other for organized decision making. Cooperation between cortical and subcortical parts of the brain is essential for behavior that adapts successfully to the environment in pursuit of goals. Concurrently, there has been a rich development of computational neural network theories that combine emotion as a source of values with reason as a process of discerning the actions that will best implement those values. Incorporating the partnership view of emotion and cognition encourages integration of those two aspects of the psyche, with benefit both for mental illness treatment and for making society more cooperative.

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The Unavoidable Intentionality of Affect: The History of Emotions and the Neurosciences of the Present Day

Cited by 13 publications

References 59 publications

Toward discourse involution within China’s Internet: Class, voice, and social media

Toward discourse involution within China’s Internet: Class, voice, and social media

Correlating affect and emotion: Covidiquette and the expanding curation of online persona(s)

Neuroscience of Emotion, Cognition, and Decision Making: A Review

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