Gonzalez-Polledo, EJ. 2018. Can Digital Health Save Democracy? Meeting the Cosmopolitical Challenge of Digital Worlds. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 6(2), pp. 631-643. ISSN 2195-3325 [Article]

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This article explores the challenges and opportunities of social media health activisms to shape public participation in the digital future of healthcare. As health becomes ever more entangled with digital technologies, a growing ecology of digital health services promise greater individual autonomy to learn about and managing medical conditions, as well as accessing health services and engaging in forms of self-care. Cautioning against optimist visions of digital health and their promise of empowerment and autonomy, the article explores how health activisms on social media are reclaiming visions of healthcare that move beyond individual and depoliticised models of health technologies. The notion of cosmopolitics is employed to conceptualise relations between technology and health that implicate human and non-human interests in entanglements between health, morality and technology.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v6i2.939
Additional Information:	Special Thematic Section on "Rethinking Health and Social Justice Activism in Changing Times"
Keywords:	Health, Digital health, Surveillance, Politics, Social media, Healthcare futures
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Anthropology
Dates:	Date Event February 2018 Submitted 31 October 2018 Accepted 21 December 2018 Published
Item ID:	25075
Date Deposited:	21 Nov 2018 16:36
Last Modified:	16 Dec 2020 19:38
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/25075

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