Digital wellness, health and fitness influencers: critical perspectives on digital guru media

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. I Am Not Your Guru: Situating Digital Guru Media Amidst the Neoliberal Imperative of Self-Health Management and the 'Post-Truth' Society -- 2. Panic F...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawrence, Stefan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge 2022
Series:Routledge critical leisure studies
Subjects:
Online Access:DE-91
URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Summary:Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. I Am Not Your Guru: Situating Digital Guru Media Amidst the Neoliberal Imperative of Self-Health Management and the 'Post-Truth' Society -- 2. Panic Fitness in Claustropolitan Times: Les Mills, Zombie Leisure and Deterritorialization -- 3. The Appearance of Authority in Health and Wellbeing Media: Analyzing Digital Guru Media through Lacan's 'big Other' -- 4. Personal Science and the Quantified Self Guru -- 5. Just a New Slant on a Very Old Story? Digital Guru Media Seen Through an Evolutionary Lens -- 6. Fitness Influencers and Their Digital Communities: Kayla Itsines and the (Re)Making of Fit Femininity -- 7. Digital Media and the Promotion of a Clean Eating Lifestyle: From 'Glowing Femininities' to 'Skinny Privilege' -- 8. Fitness Trainers Perceptions of Social Media: I'm a Fitness Professional, Not an Influencer -- 9. Swoldiers in the Swoldier Nation: YouTube Fitness Vlogs and the Performance of Mental Health, Strength, and Happiness on Social Media -- 10. Young People, Social Media and Health: A Pedagogical Perspective on Influencers -- 11. 'Do You Love Me?' Virtual Sincerity and the Cyberspaces of Wonder in Nick Cave's The Red Hand Files -- 12. Digital Guru Media for Self-Health Management and Wellbeing: The Good, the Bad, and the Pragmatic Strategies for Improvement -- Index.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 218 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781003256021
DOI:10.4324/9781003256021

There is no print copy available.

Interlibrary loan Place Request Caution: Not in THWS collection! Get full text