Collective Emotions in Cyberspace

This is the home page of the CyberEmotions consortium, which began in February 2009 for a period of four years. The project focuses on the role of collective emotions in creating, forming and breaking-up ecommunities.

The project involves nine partners in six different countries in Europe, including experts in the psychology of emotions, complexity, web data collection, artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

What are collective emotions in cyberspace? Although there are very many definitions of emotion, for our purposes, emotions in cyberspace are emotional web messages: messages posted on the web that may be perceived by the human creators or by readers as having an intended or unintended emotional content or context. Collective emotions in cyberspace are sets of emotional web messages that are generated as a result of interactions amongst multiple human web users.

Please contact the project leader Professor Janusz Holyst jholyst [at] if.pw.edu.pl with any enquiries.