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Putting the spotlight on neoliberalism as a pervasive tool that dictates wellness as a moral obligation, this book critically analyses how users navigate relationships between self-tracking technologies, social media and health management.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kent, Rachael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
Temas:
Health > Social aspects.
Health attitudes.
Social media.
Attitude to Health
Social Media
Sociologie de la santé.
Attitudes à l'égard de la santé.
Médias sociaux.
social media.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Health > Social aspects
Health attitudes
Social media
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • The Digital Health Self: Wellness, Tracking and Social Media
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Transformations of Health in the Digital Society
  • What is digital health?
  • Digital health and its history
  • The welfare state
  • The birth of neoliberalism and healthism
  • Digital self-care and COVID-19 pandemic
  • Self-tracking and social media as digital health tools
  • Neoliberalism and new materialism
  • The role of data
  • Making sense of our health through digital technology
  • Social media and performing the digital health self
  • Commodification of sociality and sharing
  • Book structure
  • 2 Understanding Our Bodies through Datafication
  • From self-quantification to self-tracking
  • From self-tracking to the datafication of health
  • Surveillance cultures of the digital health self
  • From the datafication of health to digital phenotyping
  • The choice architecture of coercive self-tracking technologies
  • Gamification and 'nudging' the digital health self
  • Quantifying narratives of the digital healthy self
  • 'Likes' as currency
  • A 'like' for a 'like'!
  • Conclusions
  • 3 Surveillance Cultures of the Digital Health Self
  • Digital health self under surveillance
  • The ambiguous health goal of self-betterment
  • Bio-political dimensions of the digital health self
  • Pride in self-surveillance and self-tracking
  • Traversing agential boundaries: competition with oneself and one's device
  • Self-representation and expected community surveillance
  • Competition and comparison in community surveillance
  • Input versus output health management discourse
  • Conclusions
  • 4 Discipline and Moralism of Our Health
  • Identifying the moralism and disciplining of health
  • (Perceived) lack of self-discipline
  • Health and fitness progression
  • legitimating inactivity
  • Disciplinary challenges of invisible illness
  • Regulation of rest
  • Self-surveillance, shame and body image
  • Disciplining the 'healthy role model'
  • Burdens of disciplinary self-tracking
  • Conclusions
  • 5 Health 'Disciples': Technology 'Addiction' and Embodiment
  • Health 'disciples'
  • 'Lay expertise' of health and its history
  • Developing lay expertise for the digital health self
  • 'Credibility arena' of health/fitness (micro-)influencers
  • Technological issues of being a 'health disciple'
  • Avoiding 'obsessive' health performativity
  • From social media use and compulsion to 'addiction'
  • The choice architecture of attention
  • Behavioural 'addictions' exacerbated through technology
  • Tools of temptation
  • Digital detoxing and quitting social media
  • Motivations to digitally detox
  • Co-evolving with social media sharing
  • Conclusions
  • 6 Sharing 'Healthiness'
  • Introduction
  • Motivations to share
  • Curating continuity of the digital health self

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