UID:
almafu_9961387696502883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 220 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-5292-1018-6
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1-5292-1017-8
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1-5292-1016-X
Series Statement:
Policy Press scholarship online
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2024).
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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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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 -- Digital food: moulding bodily consumption to social media aesthetics -- Life-stylisation of the digital health self -- Social media etiquettes -- Gendered, idealised and sexualised bodies -- Balancing oversharing and showing off -- Conclusions -- 7 Future Directions for the Digital Health Self -- Self and community surveillance in digital health practices -- Committing to health 'optimisation' via social media sharing -- Restrictive notions of 'healthiness' -- Self-tracking and social media as extensions of self -- The behavioural economics of technology 'addiction' -- Future research -- The digital health self -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5292-1015-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.56687/9781529210163
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781529210163/type/BOOK
