Sensing Bodies and Digitally Mediated Distress

Tucker, Ian; Goodings, Lewis

doi:10.2752/174589314x13834112761047

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“…The app provides a number of strategies that are designed to provide individuals with strategies to help themselves to combat stress. As we have seen with other digital media initiatives, 13 a requirement emerges to engage in practices of ‘digital self-care’. The app does not connect users with anyone else, only the virtual Dr Freeman.…”

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“…), accessing health services and consequently engaging in practices of 'digital self-care' are becoming increasingly prominent. 13 In this sense we have to invent new ways of managing our bodies in and through digital technologies. It is not so much that we are extending our bodies through technologies, but that we are working in patterns of activity that are as much technological as biological.…”

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Managing stress through the Stress Free app: Practices of self-care in digitally mediated spaces

Tucker

Goodings

2015

DIGITAL HEALTH

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In this paper we are concerned with the question of how we feel when living in concert with multiple technologies. More specifically, we are focused on the influx of digital apps designed to manage psychological wellbeing. We draw on empirical work exploring one such app, Stress Free, and focus on the experiences of stress and technological tools designed to lessen stress. Our concern is with the way that technologies become part of the experience of stress as opposed to solely understanding the app as a tool aimed to reduce the occurrence and severity of stress. This involves taking a theoretical journey through philosophies of technology that provide valuable resources for conceptualising the relational characteristics of digitally mediated stress. Our wider interest is to speak to broader concerns with the movement to ‘digital care’ and the implications for how we conceptualise technology, self and care therein.

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Managing stress through the Stress Free app: Practices of self-care in digitally mediated spaces

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2015

DIGITAL HEALTH

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“…This is of particular significance because digital technologies are said to threaten a disembodiment of practices: somatic experiences would be reduced to mere data flows and devices. Bodies would thereby simply become codified and rendered digital (compare with Tucker and Goodings 35 ). In contrast, in this article the body is thought of as genuinely engaged with the material technological reality.…”

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‘This really takes it out of you!’ The senses and emotions in digital health practices of the elderly

Urban

2017

DIGITAL HEALTH

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Wearables, fitness apps and home-based monitoring technology designed to help manage chronic diseases are generally considered in terms of their effectiveness in saving costs and improving the health care system. This article looks, instead, at the digital health practices of persons older than 65 years; it considers their actual health practices, their senses and emotions. In a qualitative study 27 elderly persons were interviewed about their digital health practices and accompanied while using the devices. The findings show that digital technologies and ageing bodies are co-productive in performing specific modes of health and the ageing process. The study shows that digital technologies not only encourage the elderly to remain physically active and enable them to age in place, but also that the use of these technologies causes the elderly to develop negative emotions that stand in a charged relationship to ageing stereotypes. Thereby, the sense of seeing has been place in pole position, while the faculty for introspection declines. This means that age-related impaired vision can result in particularly severe consequences. In the discussion it is debated in which concrete ways that digital health technologies have had a negative impact. The sociotechnical practices associated with wearables conform to the primacy of preventing ageing; passive and active monitoring technologies appear as subsystems of risk estimation, which in turn regulates diverse practices. The conclusion highlights the interrelation between notions of successful ageing and the digital practices of the elderly.

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“…Some key theoretical points guided the analytic process throughout. These were: (i) distress is manifest in social‐material environments that constitute everyday life (Brown and Reavey , Brown and Tucker , Goodings and Tucker ); (i) social media are objects that facilitate new encounters, both with other people and technology itself (Hayles , Tucker and Goodings ); and (iii) atmosphere is a useful concept for illuminating co‐producing practices of distress between bodies and technologies (i.e. Elefriends) (Hansen , Tucker ).…”

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Digital atmospheres: affective practices of care in Elefriends

Tucker

Goodings

2017

Sociology Health & Illness

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This paper develops the concept of digital atmosphere to analyse the affective power of social media to shape practices of care and support for people living with mental distress. Using contemporary accounts of affective atmospheres, the paper focuses on the impact/s on feelings of distress, support and care that unfold through digital atmospheres. The power of social media intersects with people's support and care seeking practices in multiple ways and not in a straightforward 'accessing/providing support' model. Indeed, we find that the caring relations that develop through social media often need caring for themselves (Schillmeier, 2014). The paper draws on online and interview data from a larger project investigating how practices of care and support are (re)configured in the mental health-related social media site Elefriends.

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Sensing Bodies and Digitally Mediated Distress

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

Managing stress through the Stress Free app: Practices of self-care in digitally mediated spaces

Managing stress through the Stress Free app: Practices of self-care in digitally mediated spaces

‘This really takes it out of you!’ The senses and emotions in digital health practices of the elderly

Digital atmospheres: affective practices of care in Elefriends

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