Innovative and highly up-to-date: brings together, for the first time, research on different aspects of the interrelations between emotions, the mass media, and society Multidisciplinary and integrative: consolidates research from a variety of disciplines under one unifying conceptual roof International scope: has a pronounced international scope and brings together researchers from Europe, Asia, the US, and Australia Uniqueness: in its approach to combine two obviously intertwined hallmarks of modern societies - the impact of mass media communications on individual as well as public emotionality Wide readership: this volume will be an international standard reference manual for students and researchers with various disciplinary backgrounds alike, in particular media and communication studies, sociology and psychology of mass communication, cultural studies, and political communication.