Emotions in Digital Interactions: Ethnopsychologies of Angels' Mothers in Online Bereavement Communities

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Combining the conceptual tools of interactionist and social constructionist positions, this book presents an in-depth investigation of emotions in digital interactions. Through the central case study of online bereavement communities for women who have suffered perinatal loss, this volume highlights the significance of affective sanctioning as constitutive of group dynamics and practice. The authors chart the emergence of a new ethnopsychology of motherhood—the category of ‘Angels’ Mothers’—arising from the localized practices of a community whose experience of grief is otherwise disenfranchised. Through their detailed theoretical exploration of the centrality of micro-situational dynamics, alongside the rich empirical illustration of collectively shared feeling rules and norms, Rafanell and Sawicka develop a naturalistic approach to the analysis of empirical data, providing insights for policy-making interventions. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction (Irene Rafanell, Maja Sawicka)....Pages 1-8 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 What Counts as Social Reality? (Irene Rafanell, Maja Sawicka)....Pages 11-18 Emotions as Products of the Social: Extrinsic Accounts (Irene Rafanell, Maja Sawicka)....Pages 19-25 Emotions as Constitutive Methods: An Intrinsic Account of the Social (Irene Rafanell, Maja Sawicka)....Pages 27-47 Emergence of Collectives as Status Groups (Irene Rafanell, Maja Sawicka)....Pages 49-52 Methodology and Methods of Data Collection (Irene Rafanell, Maja Sawicka)....Pages 53-60 Front Matter ....Pages 61-61 Emotional Deviance and New Emotional Reality (Irene Rafanell, Maja Sawicka)....Pages 63-98 Concluding Points: Theoretical Models, Social Reality, and Everyday Practice (Irene Rafanell, Maja Sawicka)....Pages 99-111 Back Matter ....Pages 113-120