This volume brings together an international team of authors to investigate a wide range of issues concerning the fundamental role of media technologies in shaping contemporary emotional life.

Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech is Assistant Professor with Habilitation at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

Mateusz Sobiech is a doctoral student in the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

Introduction; Part I Conceptualisations: Mediatisation of Feelings, Emotions and Relationships; 1. Mediatisation of Emotional Life: Theories, Concepts and Approaches; 2. Media Love: On the Mediatisation of Love and Our Love for Media; 3. Emotion Artificial Intelligence: Deep Mediatised and Machine-reflected Self-emotions; 4. Geomediatization: A Dialectical Approach to Close Social Relationship Dependence, Normalization and Adaptation; Part II Analysis: Challenges Caused by Mediation to Relationships; 5. Love: Interpretative Film Strategy; 6. Intimacy: Different Dimensions of Mediated Relational Lives; 7. Attention and Affective Proximity: Alleviating Loneliness and Isolation Through Virtual Girlfriends and Boyfriends; 8. Romantic Communication: Affordances and Practices of Mobile (Dis)connection; 9. Friendship: Communicative Negotiation in Proximity and Distance; 10. Family Relations: Emotional Overload; Part III Explorations: Key Aspect of Emotional Lives with Media; 11. Moving Pictures Creating Emotions: The Film Makers Emotional Strategies in Pandemic; 12. Identity Formation: Mediated Resilience of Women Who Go Through Romantic Break-ups; 13. Loneliness: Generational Differences in Interpersonal Relationships of Users; 14. FoMO: Envy, Life Satisfaction and Friendship; 15. Erotic Experience: Technology-Mediated Sex Markets