Mood and Mobility

Mood and Mobility
Author: Richard Coyne
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2024-05-21
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262552019
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An argument that as we engage with social media on our digital devices we receive, modify, intensify, and transmit moods. We are active with our mobile devices; we play games, watch films, listen to music, check social media, and tap screens and keyboards while we are on the move. In Mood and Mobility, Richard Coyne argues that not only do we communicate, process information, and entertain ourselves through devices and social media; we also receive, modify, intensify, and transmit moods. Designers, practitioners, educators, researchers, and users should pay more attention to the moods created around our smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Drawing on research from a range of disciplines, including experimental psychology, phenomenology, cultural theory, and architecture, Coyne shows that users of social media are not simply passive receivers of moods; they are complicit in making moods. Devoting each chapter to a particular mood—from curiosity and pleasure to anxiety and melancholy—Coyne shows that devices and technologies do affect people's moods, although not always directly. He shows that mood effects are transitional; different moods suit different occasions, and derive character from emotional shifts. Furthermore, moods are active; we enlist all the resources of human sociability to create moods. And finally, the discourse about mood is deeply reflexive; in a kind of meta-moodiness, we talk about our moods and have feelings about them. Mood, in Coyne's distinctive telling, provides a new way to look at the ever-changing world of ubiquitous digital technologies.

The Melodrama of Mobility

The Melodrama of Mobility
Author: Nancy Abelmann
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2003-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0824864859
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How do people make sense of their world in the face of the breakneck speed of contemporary social change? Through the lives and narratives of eight women, The Melodrama of Mobility chronicles South Korea's experience of just such dizzyingly rapid development. Abelmann captures the mood, feeling, and language of a generation and an era while providing a rare window on the personal and social struggles of South Korean modernity. Drawing also from television soap operas and films, she argues that a melodramatic sensibility speaks to South Korea's transformation because it preserves the tension and ambivalence of daily life in unsettled times. The melodramatic mode helps people to wonder: Can individuals be blamed for their social fates? How should we live? Who can say who is good or bad? By combining the ethnographic tools of anthropology, an engagement with prevailing sociological questions, and a literary approach to personal narratives, The Melodrama of Mobility offers a rich portrait of the experience of compressed modernity in the non-West.

The Mobility Workout Handbook

The Mobility Workout Handbook
Author: William Smith
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2016-12-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1578266203
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BETTER PERFORMANCE, BETTER RESULTS—WITH MOBILITY! From golf to tennis, swimming to running, cross training to strength training, everyday athletes everywhere can benefit from mobility training. Essential for promoting better performance and reducing risk of injury, mobility refers to how well your body moves through a given movement pattern. The Mobility Workout Handbook is your complete guide to incorporating this critical aspect of fitness into your workout routines. Exercise, paired with proper mobility training, is what enables professional athletes to work to their fullest potential without fear of injury or burnout…and now you can too! Fitness experts Will Smith, David Kirschen, and Mike Volkmar have brought their decades of experience together to provide an effective and easy-to-follow series of sports-specific mobility routines. Designed to help increase range of motion and allow for better performance at all levels of the fitness spectrum, these cutting-edge training routines bring the leading concepts in injury prevention and mobility development to the everyday athlete. The Mobility Workout Handbook includes: • 100 mobility routines, with endless possible variations • Expert-designed workouts of the day (WODs), tailored to a variety of sports and fitness activities • Detailed, easy-to-understand exercise descriptions to help you master each movement • Tips on how to supplement your existing workout regimen and completely customize your fitness experience to your needs • Everyday Tracker journal pages to help you keep track of your progress Revamp your body and revitalize your routines with all-in-one mobility workouts!

8 Keys to Mental Health Through Exercise (8 Keys to Mental Health)

8 Keys to Mental Health Through Exercise (8 Keys to Mental Health)
Author: Christina Hibbert
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-04-25
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0393711234
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Inspiring strategies from a wellness expert for keeping fit, relieving stress, and strengthening emotional well-being. We all know that exercise is good for physical health, but recently, a wealth of data has proven that exercise also contributes to overall mental well-being. Routine exercise alleviates stress and anxiety, moderates depression, relieves chronic pain, and improves self-esteem. In this inspiring book, Christina Hibbert, a clinical psychologist and expert on women's mental health, grief, and self-esteem, explains the connections between exercise and mental well-being and offers readers step-by-step strategies for sticking to fitness goals, overcoming motivation challenges and roadblocks to working out, and maintaining a physically and emotionally healthy exercise regimen. This book will help readers to get moving, stay moving, and maintain the inspiration they need to reap the mental health benefits of regular exercise. The 8 keys include improving self-esteem with exercise, exercising as a family, getting motivated, changing how you think about exercise, and the FITT principle for establishing an effective exercise routine.