Sensing Bodies and Digitally Mediated Distress
Serres, Simondon, and Social Media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4760719 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Tucker (0000-0002-1314-2222, University of East London), Ian M Tucker, Lewis Goodings (0009-0009-3439-4435, University of Roehampton) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-71 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Senses and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2752/174589314x13834112761047 |
| OpenAlex | W1032846057 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 14 |
In The Five Senses (2008) Michel Serres shows how the body is not an abstracted, dislocated surface that allows for the objectification of the senses and instead illustrates how it is a process: one of continually infolding sensitivities that translate our bodily feelings into a fluid sense of the world. In this article we explore what it means to be a body in the mediated environments of everyday lives of those who visit social media sites that are designed to help people deal with mental distress. We will discuss the way that “bodies” must tack between oft-competing pressures and draws, which emanate from the performance of sense that is contained within these sites. Attempts to “make” sense of the body in such terrains often require an increasingly sophisticated set of skills and expertise and can, despite our best efforts, result in the body being transported to unexpected places. In order to capture a sense of movement, people must try to transform their offline experiences into a set of actions that can be rendered meaningful in terms of an online domain, which we argue is against the way that people sense. We develop a theory of sensory bodies as subject to continual “movement,” drawing on the work of Serres, Simondon, and Manning, before discussing three examples of social media use in mental health, and the potential implications for people having to learn to sense in and through such online spaces
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive science · Distress · Epistemology · Feeling · Objectification · Process (computing · Psychology of self · Psychotherapist · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Computer Science · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology
Simondon, emotion, and individuation
De-hierarchization, trans-linearity and intersubjective participation in ethnographic research through interactive media representations
The emotional in-formation of digital life
Medicated bodies
Embodied well-being through two media technologies
Spatial Justice in the Data-Driven City
Data doubles co-constructing spatial practices
Datafication and urban (in)justice
Digital atmospheres
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |