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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746083903321

Autore

Flore Jacinthe

Titolo

The Artefacts of Digital Mental Health / / by Jacinthe Flore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9789819943227

9819943221

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (117 pages)

Collana

Health, Technology and Society, , 2946-3378

Disciplina

616.89

Soggetti

Science - Social aspects

Social medicine

Digital media

Science and Technology Studies

Medical Sociology

Health, Medicine and Society

Digital and New Media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Artefacts in the making of digital mental health -- Apps and chatbots: The emergence of algorithmic subjectivity -- Wearable devices: Bodies living and becoming with vital artefacts -- Ingestible sensors: Embodied care with/for data -- Coda.

Sommario/riassunto

Dr Jacinthe Flore is a Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies in the discipline of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, at The University of Melbourne, Australia. The Artefacts of Digital Mental Health focuses on smartphone apps, wearables devices, and ingestible sensors, which are at the centre of research, development, and investment in mental health and digitalisation. The book aims to examine digital mental health through three artefacts that are defined by their ubiquity, everydayness, popularity, innovation and hype, and emergent qualities. It engages with theoretical approaches to technology, mental health, and wellbeing informed by Science and Technology Studies, sociological studies of health and mental health, and sociomaterialism. The book



brings together different theories of mental health, subjectivity, the body, care, and digitalisation alongside biodigital artefacts as exemplars of transformations in digital mental health.