Open AccessEmbodied crises: cultural narratives, online social networks, and the mirror syndrome
Author(s) -
Pablo Valdivia,
Rosmery-Ann Boegeholz,
Marc Esteve Del Valle
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
i/c
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2173-1071
pISSN - 1696-2508
DOI - 10.12795/ic.2021.i18.03
Subject(s) - embodied cognition , narrative , beauty , power (physics) , aesthetics , social media , sociology , psychology , art , political science , epistemology , literature , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , law
This article addresses three interrelated phenomena: the irruption of new cultural narratives of power, the role of online social networks in the creation of embodied crises, and the emergence of the Mirror Syndrome as a new computer-mediated medical challenge. In doing so, it exposes the negative consequences that the cultural narratives of beauty canons executed by social media have, above all, for young women’s health.