Media, Emotions, and Daily Life: Learning Bloggers’ Practice of Mediatization Emotions in Self-Presentation

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10.2991/978-2-38476-327-6_20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Learning Blogger; Self-presentation; Theory of Mediatization; Emotional Practice Community; Emotional Support

Abstract

Social media has extended the space of self-expression, thus becoming a virtual field for creating emotions, and even affecting the public's daily lives. With the increase in social structural pressure, more attention is paid to learning bloggers, who, through the learning status presented by videos, build emotional power featuring social support attributes under the media context. This study, from the theoretical perspective of mediatization theory and self-presentation theory, further explores the self-presentation strategies of digital learning bloggers through in-depth interviews with and participant observation of some bloggers, and reveals the emotional practices they put into this process and its impact on daily life. The research finds that learning bloggers realize the mediatization of self-presentation through symbolic scenes, disciplinary behaviors, emotional sounds, and perspective selection, thus creating emotions and maintaining the emotional practice community formed between them and the audience. It further expands the boundaries of self-presentation theory. Digital platforms blur the boundaries of “foreground” and “background” metaphorized by Erving Goffman, which makes emotional factors even closer link between them.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jinghan Wang
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/17
TI  - Media, Emotions, and Daily Life: Learning Bloggers’ Practice of Mediatization Emotions in Self-Presentation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 4th International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 162
EP  - 178
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-327-6_20
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-327-6_20
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