Atmospheric video blogs on infertility
This paper explores how the presence of bodies, objects and spaces in a video blog on YouTube about infertility attunes the viewer. The paper questions mediated experiences as matters of reflexivity and image value and points to how the aesthetic dimension of mediated experiences with infertility is...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2014-01-01
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Series: | Body, Space & Technology Journal |
Online Access: | https://www.bstjournal.com/articles/49 |
Summary: | This paper explores how the presence of bodies, objects and spaces in a video blog on YouTube about infertility attunes the viewer. The paper questions mediated experiences as matters of reflexivity and image value and points to how the aesthetic dimension of mediated experiences with infertility is of experiential value. I begin by discussing the relevance of aesthetics and the concept of atmosphere in relation to mediated experiences in new media. I then illuminate how the atmospheric body, technology and time, space and particular modalities of everyday life and their constellation are significant for the viewer’s involvement in the mediated fertility project. |
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ISSN: | 1470-9120 |