Healthy users the governance of well-being on social media / Niall Docherty.
| Author/creator | Docherty, Niall |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025] |
| Description | xi, 275 pages 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : social media well-being, habit, power -- Healthy use and how to refuse it -- Neuroliberal interfaces -- Scrolling guilt, shame, and blame -- Conclusion : a different ethics of living well online. |
| Abstract | "We are often told that social media well-being is simply the result of individual users making healthy digital choices. All it takes is a little self-discipline. In this book, Niall Docherty looks closely at this belief and exposes the complex relations of power expressed through its articulation and enactment. Docherty creatively and empirically shows how the discourses, designs, and habits of online well-being push user conduct in certain directions, at the expense of others. This is a contingent mode of governance that combines logics of neoliberalism, practices of psychologized person-making, and persuasive capitalist interfaces. By highlighting the damaging effects of this current arrangement, Healthy Users charts a path that will change how we understand and study social media well-being in the future"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024059235 |
| ISBN | 9780520390621 cloth |
| ISBN | 9780520390638 paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |