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Title: | Digital Self-Control and the Neoliberalization of Social Media Well-Being |
Other Titles: | International Journal of Communication |
Authors: | Docherty, Niall |
Keywords: | power health media |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | International Journal of Communication |
Citation: | Docherty, N. (2021). Digital Self-Control and the Neoliberalization of Social Media Well-Being. International Journal Of Communication, 15, 20. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/17721/3532 |
Abstract: | Pdebates surrounding social media well-being target individual habit as the locus of critique and change. This article argues that this constitutes a commitment to responsibilized constructs of neoliberal well-being and moralized ideas of atomistic self-care. Empirical analysis reveals how such visions are discursively and materially embedded in both the well-being tools offered by social media platforms and in the mindful “hacks” of user praxis endorsed by their critics. This is shown to operate as part of a sociotechnical imaginary of self-control where the structural factors crucial to well-being are ignored. Well-being is instead aligned with personal choice. This article exposes the contingency of this view by presenting relational concepts of well-being, showing how critical, comparative interpretive analysis can better account for the psychic costs of the attention economy, thus reinvigorating the issue of social media well-being as a site of political action. |
URI: | https://repositorio.consejodecomunicacion.gob.ec//handle/CONSEJO_REP/8986 |
ISSN: | 1932-8036 |
Appears in Collections: | Documentos internacionales sobre libertad de expresión y derechos conexos |
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