Social media and the co-production of bodies online

Bergson, Serres and Facebook’s Timeline

Bibliographic Data

ID11268403
AuthorsLewis Goodings (0009-0009-3439-4435, University of Roehampton, corresponding author), Ian Tucker (0000-0002-1314-2222, University of East London)
Year2014
Volume36
Issue1
Pages37-51
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0163443713507813
OpenAlexW1998071602
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited15

Social media’s networked form of communication provides people with bodies that are combinations of embodied and technologically mediated action. This creates multiple forms of visibility within the infospheres (Terranova) of social media, which require simultaneous production of bodies in and through offline and online spaces. Bergson’s non-dualistic model of bodies as images addresses the challenges of experiencing ‘bodies online’; understood as expressions that blur the subject–object and representation–being dualisms. This article explores how socially mediated bodies are disposed for action in ways that involve negotiating communication through the mediated noise (Serres) of social media, along with managing bodies that are faced with the spatialisation of time through new features such as Facebook’s Timeline

Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Internet privacy · Media studies · Negotiation · Object (grammar · Political science · Representation (politics · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Timeline · Visibility · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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