Article
Shooting Pains: Addressing Illness-Related Pain through Video Autobiography
Probing the Boundaries
(2010)
Abstract
This paper examines autobiographical videos and emergent uses of social software sites such as YouTube to explore the possibilities of first-person media as a pain management tool. Beyond the therapeutic possibilities, the paper also explores the potential of such personal media acts as a means of breaking down taboos around pain and illness – offering up models for managing, discussing, and even ‘performing’ pain in the public sphere.
Keywords
- Video diary,
- autobiography,
- performativity,
- social media,
- vlog,
- pain diary,
- pain management,
- illness,
- digital democracy,
- public sphere.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2010
Publisher Statement
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Citation Information
Broderick Fox. “Shooting Pains: Addressing Illness-Related Pain Through Video Autobiography,” Making Sense of Pain: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Jane Fernandez ed., Probing the Boundaries (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press) 249-257, 2010.