Electronic emotion : the mediation of emotion via information and communication technologies

Contents: Leopoldina Fortunati/Jane Vincent: Introduction - Leopoldina Fortunati: Old and New Media, Old Emotion - Joachim R. Hoflich: Mobile Phone Calls and Emotional Stress - Satomi Sugiyama: Decorated Mobile Phones and Emotional Attachment for Japanese Youths - Naomi Baron: The Myth of Impoverished Signal: Dispelling the Spoken Language Fallacy for Emoticons in Online Communication - Maria Bortoluzzi: An Inconvenient Truth: Multimodal Emotions in Identity Construction - Tom Denison/Stefanie Kethers/Nicholas McPhee: Implementing E-Research Environments: The Importance of Trust - Jane Vincent: Emotion, My Mobile, My Identity - Giuseppina Pellegrino: Learning from Emotions Towards ICTs: Boundary Crossing and Barriers in Technology Appropriation.