Healthy Users

The Governance of Well-Being on Social Media

Niall Docherty (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39062-1 (ISBN)

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We are often told that social media well-being is simply the result of individual users making healthy digital choices. All it takes is a little self-discipline. In this book, Niall Docherty looks closely at this belief and exposes the complex relations of power expressed through its articulation and enactment. Docherty creatively and empirically shows how the discourses, designs, and habits of online well-being push user conduct in certain directions, at the expense of others. This is a contingent mode of governance that combines logics of neoliberalism, practices of psychologized person-making, and persuasive capitalist interfaces. By highlighting the damaging effects of this current arrangement, Healthy Users charts a path that will change how we understand and study social media well-being in the future.

Niall Docherty is a Lecturer in Data, AI, and Society in the Information School at the University of Sheffield.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Social Media Well-Being, Habit, Power
1 Healthy Use and How to Refuse It
2 Neuroliberal Interfaces
3 Scrolling Guilt, Shame, and Blame
Conclusion: A Different Ethics of Living Well Online

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.04.2025
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39062-8 / 0520390628
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39062-1 / 9780520390621
Zustand	Neuware