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.
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Stark, L. (2020). The emotive politics of digital mood tracking. New Media and Society, 22(11), 2039–2057. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820924624
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