Affective coding
Strategies of online steganography in fathers’ mental health disclosure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12656121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ranjana Das (0000-0003-0100-1817, University of Surrey, corresponding author), Phil Hodkinson (0000-0002-0900-8469, University of Surrey) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 752-769 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461444819869611 |
| OpenAlex | W2969858603 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 50 |
This article introduces the idea of ‘affective coding’ as a form of affectively loaded, digital social steganography – a form of hiding messages – as it presents findings from interviews with new fathers struggling to cope with and disclose mental illnesses, against the context of cultures of silencing. While previous expositions of online social steganography have considered its role in privacy management or its employment in concealing identities, we conceptualise affective coding as an agentic and discursive-material digital practice of attempted revelation, occupying a liminal space between silence and more explicit attempts to reach out, disclose and seek support. Our findings show men undertaking a range of seemingly minor online acts, each demonstrating subtle strategies of managing self-disclosure and social media architecture, and each encoded with a substantial amount of affective investment. We discuss motivations, strategies and outcomes of affective coding, before discussing its significance for self-disclosure in platform societies
Aesthetics · Coding (social sciences · Context (archaeology · Internet privacy · Liminality · Silence · Social media · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology
Audiences’ Coping Practices with Intrusive Interfaces
Discourse of Twitter and Social Media
Carnal Resonance
Networked Affect
Public Displays of Connection
Paternal postpartum depression, its relationship to maternal postpartum depression, and implications for family health
Affective News and Networked Publics
Mediated Intimacies
Social Consequences of the Internet for Adolescents
"On the Internet No One Knows I'm an Introvert"
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Degree and Reciprocity of Self-Disclosure in Online Forums
Performing for one’s imagined audience
Out-of-place
Skilled Support Within Intimate Relationships
Temporally Inexpensive, Affectively Expensive
Scaling digital walls
The ‘Privacy Paradox’ in the Social Web
Fathers sharing about early parental support in health-care - virtual discussions on an Internet forum
Relationship Formation on the Internet
Culture and social support
F**king Freak! What the Hell Do You Think You Look Like?’
The Aesthetics of Affect
Social Media and Personal Relationships
I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately
Power through the algorithm? Participatory web cultures and the technological unconscious
Embodying emotion sensing space
New kinships, new family formations and negotiations of intimacy via social media sites
Tapestries of Intimacy
On writing fieldnotes
Falling back into Gender? Men's Narratives and Practices around First-time Fatherhood
Digital atmospheres
Invoking Affect
Technologies, Texts and Affordances
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |