Atmospheres and Digital Media: Connection and Disconnection Across Everyday Life

by Ana Jorge (Editor), Sofia P. Caldeira (Editor)

Overview

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

From parenting and pilgrimage to activism and mourning, this thought-provoking book explores how digital connection—and disconnection—shapes the emotional texture of our lives.

Using the concept of ‘affective atmospheres’, the authors examine the feelings that emerge in the interactions between people, platforms and places. Drawing on rich, real-world examples, it explores how digital media infuse our homes, beliefs, rituals and politics with emotion, tension and meaning.

A timely exploration of the emotional labour of online life, this book offers fresh insights into how we feel our way through digital culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529252637
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2026
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176

About the Author

Ana Jorge is Senior Researcher at CICANT and Associate Professor at Lusófona University.

Sofia P. Caldeira is Researcher at CICANT and Assistant Professor at Lusófona University.

Ana Jorge is Senior Researcher at CICANT and Associate Professor at Lusófona University.
Sofia P. Caldeira is Researcher at CICANT and Assistant Professor at Lusófona University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Atmospheres in Media Dis/connections

2. There is No Affective Place Like Home: Post-Digital Parenting

3. Everyday Digital Activism and Social Media Ambiences

4. Affective Temporalities in Pilgrimage: Self, Communitas and Effervescence on the Way

5. Affective Intensities of Dis/connection in Mourning

6. Afterword