Ways of feeling: The transformation of emotional experience in music listening in the context of digitisation

Abstract

This dissertation argues that digitisation and Internet technologies are changing the emotional experience of music listening and explores the ways in which they may do so. I have conducted a cyberethnography of Internet users and perform a language analysis of their experiences. I synthesise this approach with the field of somatechnics, in order to understand the body as always-already positioned in relation to the techno-social schema.