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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 174-183 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Health Promotion International |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
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Health promotion in the digital era: a critical commentary. / Lupton, Deborah.
In: Health Promotion International, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2015, p. 174-183.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Health promotion in the digital era: a critical commentary
AU - Lupton, Deborah
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - A range of digitized health promotion practices have emerged in the digital era. Some of these practices are voluntarily undertaken by people who are interested in improving their health and fitness, but many others are employed in the interests of organizations and agencies. This article provides a critical commentary on digitized health promotion. I begin with an overview of the types of digital technologies that are used for health promotion, and follow this with a discussion of the socio-political implications of such use. It is contended that many digitized health promotion strategies focus on individual responsibility for health and fail to recognize the social, cultural and political dimensions of digital technology use. The increasing blurring between voluntary health promotion practices, professional health promotion, government and corporate strategies requires acknowledgement, as does the increasing power wielded by digital media corporations over digital technologies and the data they generate. These issues provoke questions for health promotion as a practice and field of research that hitherto have been little addressed
AB - A range of digitized health promotion practices have emerged in the digital era. Some of these practices are voluntarily undertaken by people who are interested in improving their health and fitness, but many others are employed in the interests of organizations and agencies. This article provides a critical commentary on digitized health promotion. I begin with an overview of the types of digital technologies that are used for health promotion, and follow this with a discussion of the socio-political implications of such use. It is contended that many digitized health promotion strategies focus on individual responsibility for health and fail to recognize the social, cultural and political dimensions of digital technology use. The increasing blurring between voluntary health promotion practices, professional health promotion, government and corporate strategies requires acknowledgement, as does the increasing power wielded by digital media corporations over digital technologies and the data they generate. These issues provoke questions for health promotion as a practice and field of research that hitherto have been little addressed
KW - digital health
KW - health promotion
KW - sociology
U2 - 10.1093/heapro/dau091
DO - 10.1093/heapro/dau091
M3 - Article
VL - 30
SP - 174
EP - 183
JO - Law, Probability and Risk
JF - Law, Probability and Risk
SN - 1470-8396
IS - 1
ER -