Dis/Assembling Schizophrenia on YouTube: Theorizing an Analog Body in a Virtual Sphere
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Published on: October 28, 2020
1The Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA. ehfletch@utmb.edu.
Abstract:
As visual technologies become increasingly networked online, websites like YouTube provide a space to share vlogs (video blogs) online, suggest related content for viewers, and help in/form virtual communities, including those of mental illness. Within this space, vlogs of schizophrenia and comments generated about them by other users can represent transitional, dialogical states of illness that speak back to the analog body and affect a body's way of being in the world. Moreover, as vlogs create resistance against static definitions of schizophrenia, they may foster a creativity, experimentation, and inventiveness that transforms understandings of schizophrenia within the sciences and humanities.
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