Emotional Practices and processes of subjectivation in digital society: the case of online suicides

Abstract

This article presents new paradigms for the construction of a link between emotion and identity in digital communities. To this end, we offer an analysis of some of the social processes and experiences tested by the users of these digital spaces, achieved through a qualitative ethnological work. These life stories are articulated over strategies and tactics of negotiation through which these users are shaping their identity, either following their own point of view or that of the community that take them in. To render adequately the complexity of these processes we will try to make visible the role that emotions play within these digital practices by focusing on the effects produced in social relationships in terms of inclusion and exclusion, through the case of the digital suicide.