Home⇛Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies⇛vol. 13 no. 1 (2024)

Theorizing Docile Bodies in Mediatized Spaces

Ben Carlo N. Atim | Michelle Anne N Sto. Tomas

 

Abstract:

This inquiry investigates the media’s role in shaping contemporary discipline practices, specifically the human body, in the context of how the exercise of power intensifies the practice of discipline today. Some authors argue that the human body is not just a cultural text anymore but a practical, direct place of control. Parenting is an archetype of this ‘control.’ The study asserts that the mobility of the parent’s human body is being mediatized. In a mediatized space, media plays a pivotal role in reinforcing the docility of the human body. To prove this, semi-structured interviews were employed among Millennial Filipino parents to (a) narrate current social rules in parenting, (b) identify and categorize codes of mediatized spaces, and (c) demonstrate how these codes indicate aspects of a Foucauldian discipline.



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