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

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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