Digital Emotions
I just finished reading Blink – really interesting, I especially liked the research on facial expressions by psychologist Paul Ekman. Ekman’s work codes facial expressions with the emotions they represent in amazing detail, and makes me want to become much more sophisticated in observation. I feel like I was handed a really easy example to practice on – the Emily Gould cover story in the NY Times Magazine that is getting so much comment around the web led me to watch her interview by Jimmy Kimmel. Watch this – even an amateur like me can easily figure out what all her eye rolls, eyebrow movements, and other facial gestures mean – it makes a great companion piece to the NY Times article because while you can read her article and have some sympathy for her, the sympathy vanishes once you watch the video.