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[Commlist] New book - Digital Media and Participatory Cultures of Health and Illness

Mon Jan 10 13:47:51 GMT 2022




Stefania Vicari's new book /Digital Media and  Participatory Cultures of Health and Illness /has just been published by Routledge.

https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Media-and-Participatory-Cultures-of-Health-and-Illness/Vicari/p/book/9781138603127


This book explores how the complex scenario of platforms, practices and content in the contemporary digital landscape is shaping participatory cultures of health and illness.

The everyday use of digital and social media platforms has major implications for the production, seeking and sharing of health information, and raises important questions about health peer support, power relations, trust, privacy and knowledge. To address these questions, the book navigates contemporary forms of participation that develop through mundane digital practices, like tweeting about the latest pandemic news or keeping track of our daily runs with Fitbit or Strava. In doing so, it explores both radical activist practices and more ordinary forms of participation that can gradually lead to social and/or cultural changes in how we understand and experience health and illness.


*CONTENTS*


1. Introduction: Pandemic snapshots, digital media, and participatory cultures of health and illness

*PART 1: Theoretical foundations*

2. Digital media, participation, and citizenship

3. Health advocacy and activism

*PART 2: The rise of digitised and networked health*

4. The rise of the epatient in the internet that was

5. From patient organisations to patient networks

*PART 3: Platforms*

6. Participatory cultures of health and illness on mainstream social media

7. Participatory cultures of health and illness on digital health platforms


8 Conclusion: Understanding participatory cultures of health and illness in contemporary societies

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