TY - CHAP
T1 - Fashion blogging as a technology of bodily becoming
T2 - The fluidity and firmness of digital bodies
AU - Nielsen, Louise Yung
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This chapter discusses the relation between the body and media and examines how the body is performed through its entanglement with exercise, clothing and plastic surgery. It argues that the images, and that intimacy is present in very different manners on the two blogs analysed. The chapter focuses on two (Danish) blogs: Sidsel and Lasse and Gina Jaqueline. Lasse's use of the before-and-after photo testifies to an attempt to isolate the body and to view bodily improvement through a 'neutral' or 'objective' lens. Gina declares that lip enhancement through injection will happen in the near future. The chapter highlights the intertwined relation between bodies and media and also examines how this intimate relation is performed on the personal fashion blog. It investigates the fashion blog as a producer of both new bodies and new ways of experiencing and performing bodies. The chapter also analyses bodily performance, drawing on feminist theory concerning the body.
AB - This chapter discusses the relation between the body and media and examines how the body is performed through its entanglement with exercise, clothing and plastic surgery. It argues that the images, and that intimacy is present in very different manners on the two blogs analysed. The chapter focuses on two (Danish) blogs: Sidsel and Lasse and Gina Jaqueline. Lasse's use of the before-and-after photo testifies to an attempt to isolate the body and to view bodily improvement through a 'neutral' or 'objective' lens. Gina declares that lip enhancement through injection will happen in the near future. The chapter highlights the intertwined relation between bodies and media and also examines how this intimate relation is performed on the personal fashion blog. It investigates the fashion blog as a producer of both new bodies and new ways of experiencing and performing bodies. The chapter also analyses bodily performance, drawing on feminist theory concerning the body.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Mediated-Intimacies-Connectivities-Relationalities-and-Proximities/Andreassen-Petersen-Harrison-Raun/p/book/9781138631878
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781138631878
SN - 9781138631861
T3 - Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education
SP - 267
EP - 281
BT - Mediated intimacies
A2 - Andreassen, Rikke
A2 - Petersen, Michael Nebeling
A2 - Harrison, Katherine
A2 - Raun, Tobias
PB - Routledge
CY - London/New York
ER -