Vibrant Screens
Remote therapy and counselling through the lens of digital materiality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5145123 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Kolehmainen (0000-0003-2949-2638, University of Turku, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 181-199 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13634593241234491 |
| PMID | 38407104 |
| OpenAlex | W4392157775 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article analyses the digital screen as a health technology. In particular, the article asks how screens as a part of therapy settings or counselling practices materialise - or fail to materialise - care. The empirical data comprise interviews with therapy and counselling professionals, whose experiences with technology during the COVID-19 pandemic were my original interest. Adopting a sociomaterial approach to technology use, it scrutinises not only how screens are used, but also how screens themselves act and operate. This approach foregrounds the screen as 'multiple', complicating a dichotomous understanding between in-person therapy and remote therapy. The article argues that the screen operates in a variety of ways that might either facilitate or degrade care and is an essential part of more-than-human care in digitalised societies. Acknowledging the agential capacities of all matter, the article also conceptualises screens as 'vibrant matter
Aesthetics · Art · Engineering ethics · Health care · Pandemic · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Mental Health Interventions · Engineering · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Medicine · Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
The rural risk of digital exclusion
Adapting to expectancy violations during telehealth interactions with clients
Revisiting critical digital health studies in the age of generative AI
Networked Care
When the Place of Care Is Hybrid
Strange/R/Ness
Teletherapy Matters - Mental health and materialities of care in domestic more-than-digital assemblages
More-Than-Human, More-Than-Digital
The Logic of Care
Carnal Thoughts
Digital masks
The contemporary US digital divide
Ambient Television
Transitional objects and transitional phenomena 1 —a study of the first not-me possession 2
The Becoming of Bodies
Screening the Body
Screen and screen theorizing today
Ninja’ levels of focus
Affective intimacies
The body social
The Force of Things
Wonderful Webcams
Feeling through the screen
The symbolic affordances of a video-mediated gaze in emergency psychiatry
Toward a More-Than-Human Analysis of Digital Health
On Touching-the Inhuman That Therefore I Am
Nothing Comes Without Its World
Someone Else Is Behind The Screen
Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Qualitative Data Analysis After Coding
Innovation and evaluation
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |