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Digital media, the developing brain and the interpretive plasticity of neuroplasticity
In: Transcultural psychiatry, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 192-215
ISSN: 1461-7471
The use and misuse of digital technologies among adolescents has been the focus of fiery debates among parents, educators, policy-makers and in the media. Recently, these debates have become shaped by emerging data from cognitive neuroscience on the development of the adolescent brain and cognition. "Neuroplasticity" has functioned as a powerful metaphor in arguments both for and against the pervasiveness of digital media cultures that increasingly characterize teenage life. In this paper, we propose that the debates concerning adolescents are the meeting point of two major social anxieties both of which are characterized by the threat of "abnormal" (social) behaviour: existing moral panics about adolescent behaviour in general and the growing alarm about intense, addictive, and widespread media consumption in modern societies. Neuroscience supports these fears but the same kinds of evidence are used to challenge these fears and reframe them in positive terms. Here, we analyze discourses about digital media, the Internet, and the adolescent brain in the scientific and lay literature. We argue that while the evidential basis is thin and ambiguous, it has immense social influence. We conclude by suggesting how we might move beyond the poles of neuro-alarmism and neuro-enthusiasm. By analyzing the neurological adolescent in the digital age as a socially extended mind, firstly, in the sense that adolescent cognition is distributed across the brain, body, and digital media tools and secondly, by viewing adolescent cognition as enabled and transformed by the institution of neuroscience, we aim to displace the normative terms of current debates.
To speak for human nature: Cosmopolitics, critique and the neurosciences
In: BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 104-109
ISSN: 1745-8560
Brain development during puberty: state of the science
In: Developmental science, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 11-14
ISSN: 1467-7687
Critical Neuroscience: Linking Neuroscience and Society through Critical Practice
In: BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 61-77
ISSN: 1745-8560
"Let's pull these technologies out of the ivory tower": The politics, ethos, and ironies of participant-driven genomic research
In: BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 494-519
ISSN: 1745-8560