Emotions in the Digital World Exploring Affective Experience and Expression in Online Interactions

Robin L. Nabi, PhD is Professor of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published close to 100 articles and book chapters on the role of emotion in media processes and effects, with particular emphasis on media use and well-being and the persuasive effect of emotion-based messages. She co-edited the SAGE Handbook of Media Processes and Effects, and she has served as a managing editor of Media Psychology. She was inaugurated as a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2017.

Jessica Gall Myrick, PhD, is a professor in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State University. Her research examines the interplay of emotional and cognitive processes in shaping audience responses to media messages about health, science, and the environment. Myrick also studies the role of media coverage of celebrities and pets in shaping our culture and health-related attitudes and behaviors. Her research has been featured by news outlets across the globe.