Monday, April 5, 2021

 Communication plays a significant part in the online culture world.  Culture encloses all human action and its meanings by providing a frame of reference for social action.  The micro-level shows the small-scale social media use for personal ends where the emotional attention is inward rather than outward.  The meso-level sees groups of emotionally resonant people come together over a specific event and find support via the digital world, the macro-level globalized emotional flows through various discourses and imagery.  For example, we see a news article about the tsunami.  The effects of the tsunami are viewed on a global scale.  Diving deeper the micro-level is more on the local level.  With good circulation, you can run into the meso-level.  The meso-level can attract a small group.  For example, a group of people mourning the same person.  The macro-level is what attracts a large group worldwide. The loss of a celebrity is on the macro level.  Emotional bonding is a feature of the macro-level manifestation of digital affect culture. Emotion as a social adhesive brings people together with broader socio-political issues that surpass them (Doeveling, Harju & Sommer, 2018).






Doeveling, K., Harju, A. A., & Sommer, D. (2018). From Mediatized Emotion to Digital Affect Cultures: New Technologies and Global Flows of Emotion. SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY4(1). https://doi-org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1177/2056305117743141


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