The emotive politics of digital mood tracking
Luke Stark
Abstract
Through a values in design (VID) analysis, this article assesses two mood-tracking apps (Moodscope and MoodPanda) to argue the particular interface design choices of these applications serve to influence their users’ sense of sociality and self-fashioning. The design features of these artifacts signal a broader shift in the sociotechnical definitions and discourses of the feeling of an individual, enabling an emergent emotive politics at work across contemporary digital media technologies.
Topics & Concepts
EmotiveSociotechnical systemFeelingSocialityPoliticsMoodDigital mediaSociologyTracking (education)Computer sciencePsychologySocial psychologyCognitive psychologyHuman–computer interactionPolitical scienceWorld Wide WebKnowledge managementPedagogyLawEcologyAnthropologyBiologyInnovative Human-Technology InteractionEthics and Social Impacts of AIDigital Economy and Work Transformation