The Artefacts of Digital Mental Health
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Offers a cutting-edge analysis of the emergence, applications and socio-technical networks of digital mental health Deploys a framework drawn from work in science and technology studies, new materialism and sociology Traces the expansion of digital mental health in the context of broader shifts in human-computer interactions
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Jacinthe Flore
Themen in »The Artefacts of Digital Mental Health«
digital media mental health smart technology mental health and illness digital mental health STS digital technography artificial intelligence sociomaterialism science and technology studies
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“The Artefacts of Digital Mental Health offers a cutting-edge analysis of the emergence, applications and socio-technical networks that constitute digital mental health care. Drawing together diverse theoretical insights on mental health, subjectivity, the body, care, and digitalisation, Jacinthe Flore provides a lively analysis of how artefacts such as smartphone apps, wearables devices, and ingestible sensors are transforming mental health care practices. It will be a ‘go to’ book for critical scholars looking to rethink mental health beyond either biomedical or social constructionist accounts to explore how emerging technologies come to matter.” (Simone Fullagar, Professor, Griffith University, Australia)
“In this timely new book, Jacinthe Flore offers a well-argued exploration of how digital technologies are being enrolled into the field of mental health. Flore carefully shifts debate away from solutionist interpretations of the significance of these artefacts for mental health, focusing instead on how the exploration of digital mental health presents us with the opportunity to rethink mental health itself.” (Flis Henwood, Professor Emeritus of Social Informatics, University of Brighton, UK)
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