Internet Cures
The Social Lives of Digital Miracles
1st Edition
Published on 19. December 2024
176 pages
978-1-5292-3517-3 (ISBN)
Description
In health care, we come across daily promises of miraculous cures for various ailments. However, in the digital era, the dynamics of experiencing and practicing these remedies have changed.
This book explores the intersection of miracle cures and technology, showcasing their transformation into hybrid forms, such as handwritten recipes captured in photos or tutorials streamed through videos. Combining computational social media data with ethnographic insights from Vietnam and the US, the book captures the interconnected lives of these cures in the digital realm with a unique methodology.
Unravelling the intricate connections between social, technological, biomedical and non-biomedical spheres, this is a significant contribution to how social scientists study online media.
This book explores the intersection of miracle cures and technology, showcasing their transformation into hybrid forms, such as handwritten recipes captured in photos or tutorials streamed through videos. Combining computational social media data with ethnographic insights from Vietnam and the US, the book captures the interconnected lives of these cures in the digital realm with a unique methodology.
Unravelling the intricate connections between social, technological, biomedical and non-biomedical spheres, this is a significant contribution to how social scientists study online media.
Reviews / Votes
"In this fascinating tour through the global Vietnamese world of internet cures, Dang Nguyen combines rigorous analysis of online discourse with ethnographic descriptions that reveal healing communities who both transcend geographic boundaries and leap into worlds of miracle and magic." Erik Harms, Yale UniversityMore details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Illustrations
11 s/w Abbildungen, 8 s/w Tabellen
8 Tables, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
File size
3,11 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-3517-3 (9781529235173)
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Additional editions
Book
12/2024
1st Edition
Bristol University Press
€105.50
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Person
Dang Nguyen is Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society at RMIT University.
Content
1. Introduction: Of Internet Cures and Digital Miracles
Part I: Contextualizing Internet Cures and Digital Miracles
2. Miracle Cures in Context: Vietnam as Research Site
3. Miracle Cures as Non-Biomedical Practices
Part II: Written Networks of Digital Miracles
4. Crowd Digitization of Miracle Cures and the Digitality of Writing
5. Mapping Transnational Networks of Written Miracles
Part III: Digital Miracles as Digital Play
6. If It's Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing Live: Livestreaming Miracles
7. Curing as Play: The Internet as Miraculous Milieu
Epilogue: Curing at the Digital Edge
Part I: Contextualizing Internet Cures and Digital Miracles
2. Miracle Cures in Context: Vietnam as Research Site
3. Miracle Cures as Non-Biomedical Practices
Part II: Written Networks of Digital Miracles
4. Crowd Digitization of Miracle Cures and the Digitality of Writing
5. Mapping Transnational Networks of Written Miracles
Part III: Digital Miracles as Digital Play
6. If It's Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing Live: Livestreaming Miracles
7. Curing as Play: The Internet as Miraculous Milieu
Epilogue: Curing at the Digital Edge
