Governing Global Emotions : Technology and the New Science of Feeling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pykett, Jessica.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.

Summary:

What goes wrong when emotions get turned into digital data to be measured, monitored and managed.Data from facial emotion recognition, brain-computer interfaces, virtual reality, global emotion surveys and sentiment analysis offer an extraordinary new terrain for scientific exploration.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Feelism in Government, Technology, and Culture

Decoding Human Experience by Coding Emotions

Emotionalisation of Public and Policy Discourse

Contesting Global Emotions

Methodological Note

About the Book

2. Situating Global Emotions

Worldly Emotions: Where Are Emotions and What Do They Do?

Political Affects: How Are Emotions Political?

Emotional Injustice: What Do Emotions Explain?

Digital Emotional Governance

3. Emotion Science and Its Critics

Searching for a New Era of Affectivism

Central Claims in Emotion Science

Critical Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Emotion Science

Machinic Emotions: What Is Being Measured and Why Does This Matter?

Digital Emotional Science

4. Cultural Politics of Digital Media Ecologies

Media Anthropologies and Digital Ecologies

Visual Cultures and Subjectivity

Economic Value, Power, and Governance

Digital Emotional Power

5. Emotional Data Bodies

Boomtime for Digital Emotions Products and Services

Applications of Emotion Science in Affective Computing

A Media Ecology Analysis of Emotion Sensing Technics

Doing Things With Digital Emotions

6. Empathic Cities

Spatial Concepts for Understanding Digital Emotional Governance

Complex Urban Systems of Emotional Wellbeing in the New Sciences of Cities

Critical Neurogeographies for Empathic Cities

Managing Cities With Digital Emotions

7. Global Economic Emotions

Who Gets to Design the Future of GDP?

How GDP Becomes History and Happiness Becomes the Future

Heterodox Economics for Democratised Emotional Governance

Measuring National Progress through Emotions

8. Anticipatory Ethics

Ethical Preparedness for Digital Emotion Sensing

Conclusions

Future Research and Developments.

Abbreviations

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-691-28452-0

9780691284521

OCLC:

1586549770