Digital Health and the Gamification of Life
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Digital Health and the Gamification of Life
How Apps Can Promote a Positive Medicalization
Moretti, Veronica; Maturo, Antonio
Emerald Publishing Limited
10/2018
196
Dura
Inglês
9781787543669
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This book analyzes the role of health apps to promote medicalization. It considers whether their use is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one, with some apps based on a medical framework positively promoting physical activity and meditation, or whether data-sharing can foster social discrimination.
Introduction Chapter 1. Self-Tracking and the Quantification of Everyday Life Chapter 2. Getting Things Done: Gaming and Framing Chapter 3. How Apps Foster Medicalization Chapter 4. The Self of the Quantified Self Chapter 5. The Dark Side of Digital Health Chapter 6. The Positive Medicalization: Digital Meditation Chapter 7. Exercise is (also) Medicine Conclusion
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This book analyzes the role of health apps to promote medicalization. It considers whether their use is an individual matter, rather than a political and social one, with some apps based on a medical framework positively promoting physical activity and meditation, or whether data-sharing can foster social discrimination.
Introduction Chapter 1. Self-Tracking and the Quantification of Everyday Life Chapter 2. Getting Things Done: Gaming and Framing Chapter 3. How Apps Foster Medicalization Chapter 4. The Self of the Quantified Self Chapter 5. The Dark Side of Digital Health Chapter 6. The Positive Medicalization: Digital Meditation Chapter 7. Exercise is (also) Medicine Conclusion
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