ABSTRACT
People use technology in a variety of ways to express their emotions on a daily basis. They text their mothers everyday with family news, they email their colleagues to share jokes and build camaraderie, they Facebook their school friends to exchange information and photos, and they use webcams to Skype their family and friends who live in distant places. In doing this, the type of emotion and the expression of emotion, as well as the emotion itself, are shaped in subtle ways by the technological forms being used and the technology in turn is shaped by its societal uses. Few studies have analyzed the relationship between emotions and the varied modes of technology used and yet everyday more and more people develop a wide-ranging repertoire of digital emotional practices.
