Outsourced Dreamwork: TikTok, Scrolling, and the Here-Else

Friday, November 15, 2024
12:00-1:30pm -- Wilson 142

IHGC Personhoods Lab Presents:

Samuele Collu, Assistant Professor of Medical and Psychological Anthropology at McGill University

Dr. Collu's research addresses the entanglement between psychic life, therapeutic practices, and digital devices. His forthcoming book, entitled Into the Loop: Affect, Therapy, and Screens, will be published by Duke University Press. He is currently working on "Dreams I Scroll Through," a manuscript that draws from multimodal ethnographic researchto explore the affective experience of binge-scrolling through social media.

Reception to follow.

Cosponsored by the Health Ethics and Society Program