In her new paper Soziale Medien, Emotionen und Affekte Prof. Margreth Lünenborg is discussing the mutual relations between emotions and social media on the basis of the research on emotions and affect studies. It is shown how social platforms are aiming at the influence of users and how interactions in social media can be understood as affective media practices.

The paper is part of Handbuch Soziale Medien and can be downloaded here.