ISBN:
9781529210163
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (231 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Health-Social aspects
;
Health attitudes
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
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URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781529210163/type/BOOK
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