Rachael Kent
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachael Kent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachael |
| FAMILY NAME | Kent |
| SIGNATURE | KENT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Digital Humanities, King's College London, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1107-385X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Digital detox
With the increasing penetration of digital devices to manage everyday life and public concern about the negative impact on individual health and well-being, media coverage and research on ‘digital detox’ have accelerated in the last decade, as an alternative to tech ‘addiction’, as well as being heavily capitalised upon by many tech and wellness companies. A key solution presented is the introduction of various digital well-being applications to …
(In) visibility of health and illness
This paper examines the changing terrain of accessing health and illness guidance and information through the lens of social media, specifically It argues how Instagram, has increasingly become an unregulated -public health platform in today's digital society. Drawing on extensive empirical interview data from two research projects before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, which explored how users showcased and performed health and illness on Inst…
Self-Tracking Health Over Time
Instagram and self-tracking technologies enable multiple ways to perform and represent the body and health. No research has yet explored how self-tracking technologies and self-representations of health identity on social media, in particular Instagram, influence health 'sharing' online and individual health management offline. To enable a thorough investigation of how self-tracking mediations of identity construction work in practice, through a …
Self-Tracking Health Over Time
Instagram and self-tracking technologies enable multiple ways to perform and represent the body and health. No research has yet explored how self-tracking technologies and self-representations of health identity on social media, in particular Instagram, influence health 'sharing' online and individual health management offline. To enable a thorough investigation of how self-tracking mediations of identity construction work in practice, through a …
Self-Tracking Health Over Time
Instagram and self-tracking technologies enable multiple ways to perform and represent the body and health. No research has yet explored how self-tracking technologies and self-representations of health identity on social media, in particular Instagram, influence health 'sharing' online and individual health management offline. To enable a thorough investigation of how self-tracking mediations of identity construction work in practice, through a …
(In) visibility of health and illness
This paper examines the changing terrain of accessing health and illness guidance and information through the lens of social media, specifically It argues how Instagram, has increasingly become an unregulated -public health platform in today's digital society. Drawing on extensive empirical interview data from two research projects before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, which explored how users showcased and performed health and illness on Inst…
Digital detox
With the increasing penetration of digital devices to manage everyday life and public concern about the negative impact on individual health and well-being, media coverage and research on ‘digital detox’ have accelerated in the last decade, as an alternative to tech ‘addiction’, as well as being heavily capitalised upon by many tech and wellness companies. A key solution presented is the introduction of various digital well-being applications to …
Digital health (2 works) · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social Media in Health Education (2 works) · Commodification (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Digital ecosystem (1 work) · Digital media (1 work)