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Key Features of Digital Media Consumption: Implications of Users’ Emotional Dimension

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Media and Metamedia Management

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This chapter contains two objectives: (1) To identify general factors that are distinctive of digital consumption in the current media ecosystem and (2) to describe the connotations that said consumption has on human beings’ emotional dimension. It further attempts to present key elements of this consumption, namely (a) the overabundance of information available to the user, (b) the acceleration of time as it is experienced, (c) the emergence of attention as currency, (d) the multiplicity of screens and devices, and (e) the socialization of consumption. The chapter finally concludes that the development of a critical and conscious media consumption, which is associated with emotional management, is one of the main issues in the analysis of digital technology and its everyday use.

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  1. Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra (UNAV), Pamplona, Spain

    Javier Serrano-Puche

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  1. Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Francisco Campos Freire

  2. Faculty of Social and Communication Sci., Universidad de Vigo Faculty of Social and Communication Sci., Pontevedra, Spain

    Xosé Rúas Araújo

  3. Faculty of Science Communication, University of A Coruña Faculty of Science Communication, A Coruña, Spain

    Valentín Alejandro Martínez Fernández

  4. Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Xosé López García

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Serrano-Puche, J. (2017). Key Features of Digital Media Consumption: Implications of Users’ Emotional Dimension. In: Freire, F., Rúas Araújo, X., Martínez Fernández, V., García, X. (eds) Media and Metamedia Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 503. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46068-0_62

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