Distributed assemblages of cognition and health (or) how TikTok ate my mind

Mcphie, Jamie ORCID logo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5290-1685 and Clarke, David ORCID logo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4330-0818 (2024) Distributed assemblages of cognition and health (or) how TikTok ate my mind. In: Boyd, Candice, Boyle, Louise, Bell, Sarah, Högström, Ebba, Evans, Joshua, Paul, Alak and Foley, Ronan, (eds.) Routledge handbook on spaces of mental health and wellbeing. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 283-290. Full text not available from this repository.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003345725-29

Abstract

With this chapter, we attempt to think with virtual space as we grapple with the topic/s – health, social media, creative space. But this virtual world isn't simply the binary opposite of a physical world – an actual. It's not some ghostly space devoid of material. Virtual space is entirely material and as such entangles itself ecologically with anything that engages with it, including thinking – cognition. So, thinking this way, what might the health implications be when we think with social media (for example, TikTok)? This chapter thinks itself creatively with the writing, as it moves through, wrestles with, and queer(ie)s the ecological concepts it explores, from assemblages of health and embodied cognition to social media, misogyny, and fascism.

Item Type: Book Section
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032385761 / 9781003345725
Departments: Institute of Science and Environment > Outdoor Studies
Additional Information: Chapter 26 within book.
Depositing User: Anna Lupton
Date Deposited: 12 Nov 2024 09:33
Last Modified: 15 Nov 2024 11:25
URI: https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/8491
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