LGBTQI+ icons between resistance and normalization

Looking for Mediatization of Emotions in Hashtags

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6193523
AutoresGevisa La Rocca (0000-0003-2548-5473, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Enna “Kore”, Enna, Italy, autor correspondente), Cirus Rinaldi (0000-0002-4047-9234, Department of Cultures and Societies, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy)
Ano2020
Volume30
Fascículo1
Páginas26-45
Data de publicação2020-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Review of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0390-6701 • E-ISSN: 1469-9273
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03906701.2020.1724367
OpenAlexW3008174960
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas44

The mediatization of emotions emerges as an affordance of social media, the study of which involves paying attention to digital practices and to the construction and expression of public affection. This happens both for the great events and for the daily demonstrations of support or its denial. In this article we work on the phenomenon of the mediatization of emotions linked to two LGBTQI+ icons and expressed in hashtags on Twitter. Placing it in a specific context – the one of well-known television characters who have declared their homosexual orientation or transgender identity. The objective is to understand if the cloud of feelings they have created on Twitter is to be attributed to a true globally mediatized emotional exchange, or just an expression of emotions on the social media, and discover which emotional dynamics, linked to the LGBTQI+ world, they express

Affection · Affordance · Cognitive psychology · Denial · Feeling · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Social media · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology