Healthy Users (eBook)

The Governance of Well-Being on Social Media

Niall Docherty (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
288 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39064-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.
 

Inhalt

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
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39064-4 / 0520390644
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39064-5 / 9780520390645