Abstract
<span lang="EN-US" style="">This article develops an ethnographic approach for analyzing the entanglements of digital media and emotions in everyday life. Using the practice of taking selfies at the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe” in Berlin as an example, it engages in a discussion of practice and affordance theories as well as ethnographic approaches to the study of emotions. In three related sections, it offers a particular conceptualization of “media practices” which builds upon the concept of “affordances,” an introduction to the analysis of “emotional practices,” and a section proposing the ethnographic concept of “emotional affordances.” This concept, the article argues, can serve as a key link in understanding doing emotion through digital media.</span>
Highlights
This article develops an ethnographic approach for analyzing the entanglements of digital media and emotions in everyday life
This article laid out the basic concepts of practice and affordance theories in relation to the study of digital media and emotions
It developed a particular concept of media practices that builds strongly upon the concept of affordances
Summary
This article develops an ethnographic approach for analyzing the entanglements of digital media and emotions in everyday life. From the perspective of practice theories, smartphones afford a large variety of media practices directly related to visitors’ experiences of the memorial: taking pictures (including selfies), shooting videos, uploading pictures and videos to Facebook, Instagram or other platforms, receiving comments on these pictures from friends, answering comments, etc.
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