Traversing Emotional Spaces: Social Media Affordances and Emotion Regulation in Times of Physical Isolation

People’s emotional life is increasingly interwoven with social media. Against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in China, this study investigated social media affordances enacted during people’s emotion regulation processes. By analyzing in-depth interviews with 27 Shanghai reside...

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Published inSocial media + society Vol. 10; no. 1
Main Authors Peng, Lulu, Wang, Jinping, Zheng, Nanxiao, Guo, Xiaoping
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2024
Sage Publications Ltd
SAGE Publishing
Subjects
COVID-19
Emotional regulation
Emotions
Mass media
Self control
Social media
COVID-19
emotion regulation
affordance
social media
in-depth interview
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Summary:People’s emotional life is increasingly interwoven with social media. Against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in China, this study investigated social media affordances enacted during people’s emotion regulation processes. By analyzing in-depth interviews with 27 Shanghai residents going through a 2-month lockdown, we identified intersections between social media affordances and different emotion regulation processes: selectivity and intrapersonal emotion regulation; visibility and emotional self-presentation; bandwidth and interpersonal emotion regulation; connectivity and collective emotion regulation. This study extended our knowledge of mediated emotion regulation processes and enriched our understanding of the dynamic relations between users, media technologies, and emotional and social contexts.
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ISSN:2056-3051
2056-3051
DOI:10.1177/20563051241237273