2nd call for chapters/ Deadline April 15, 2011 Edited book on Internet and Emotions. Research Network 11 of the European Sociological Association (Sociology of Emotions) is engaged in editing a series of books that will focus on various aspects of emotions in society. The intended volume on *Emotions and Internet* is part of this endeavor. It emerged out of discussions in recent conferences and the interest of members of RN 11 in studying the interplay between new forms of virtual environment enabled by the internet and emotions. The book will collect cutting-edge articles that deal empirically and theoretically with internet and emotions, as well as make an attempt to map and theorize this emerging scholarly field. * * During the last couple of decades, at least two novel processes that are of interest to our planned project have been evolving. The first is the penetration of the Internet into virtually every sphere of social life. From friendship, dating, and shopping to economic, political, cultural, and social practices, from social networking to virtual conferencing, no aspect of life as we knew and understood it has remained unaffected. It can be claimed that the Internet is no longer just another tool that people use, but an environment within which people operate and live. The second development that has occurred during these two decades has been the advent of the sociological study of emotions. Theoretical and empirical scholarship has refined our understanding of emotions and the emotional world and has demonstrated that emotions are present in every aspect of social life and play an important role in central processes and structures. The purpose of the present book is to explore the emotional aspects and processes occurring within this new socio-virtual environment. As new emotional practices emerge, new emotional feed-back loops are built, and new emotional language and manifestations crystallize on the Internet, we need to study them empirically and to theorize them. There are ample examples of possible questions. For example, the phenomenon of flaming has received attention among communications scholars but the general question of the language of emotions that is evolving on internet communication has not been explored before. Or the question of feeling rules and emotions display rules in the virtual world; the ways in which anonymity and disembodiment affect the disclosure of emotions on the Internet; the differences and similarities among various genres of CMC as far as the expression of emotions is concerned, etc. are yet to be explored. We are seeking both theoretical and empirical contributions that focus on issues that emerge at the intersection of emotions and Internet at three levels of social organization: The micro level, of the individual and dyadic relations; the mezzo level of groups, organizations, social movements and community, and the macro societal, transnational networks level. Internet and media scholars dealing with some aspect of emotions are particularly welcome to submit their work. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to Dr. Tova Benski via email: tbenski@colman.ac.il Deadline for submission: *April 15 2011.* * * *Tova Benski, Dept. of Behavioral Sciences College of Management Rishon Leziyon, Israel* * * *Eran Fisher, Kreitman School for Advanced Graduate Studies * *& The Department of Communication Studies * *Ben Gurion University, Israel * -- Eran Fisher, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Kreitman School for Advanced Graduate Studies & The Department of Communication Studies Ben Gurion University, Israel ד"ר ערן פישר עמית מחקר פוסט-דוקטורט בית הספר ללימודי מחקר מתקדמים ע"ש קרייטמן והמחלקה לתקשורת אוניברסיטת בן גוריון בנגב --- *Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age*. Palgrave. 2010<http://www.amazon.com/Media-New-Capitalism-Digital-Age/dp/0230616070> *קפיטליזם בעידן התקשורת הדיגיטלית*. רסלינג. 2011<http://www.resling.co.il/book.asp?book_id=631> --- Address: Department of Communication Ben Gurion University P.O. Box 653, Be'er Sheva 84105 Israel