Healthy users : the governance of well-being on social media / Niall Docherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Docherty, Niall.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social media addiction--Prevention.

Social media addiction.

Well-being.

Internet users--Psychology.

Internet users.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Governance of well-being on social media

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520390645

0520390644

OCLC:

1514640517