New arenas for public life

Negotiating health on-line

Bibliographic Data

ID6234291
AuthorsAnni Dugdale (University of Canberra, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume43
Issue1
Pages27-41
Publication date2008-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10361140701842557
OpenAlexW2020466666
LanguageEN
References cited24

This article examines the provision of on-line health information in the Australian polity, looking specifically at the question of whether e-health information can give rise to new forms of politics, citizenship and democracy. It has been argued that the Internet provides new ways for governments to conceive their nature and purpose while, at the same time, providing new forms of civil society and political mobilisation. Adopting a theoretical perspective that regards the technologies of government and not just their ideologies as critical determinants of power distribution within societies (Foucault 1984 Foucault, M. 1984. The History of Sexuality, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. [Google Scholar]; Henman 2006 Henman, P. and Fenger, M. 2006. Administering Welfare Reform, Bristol: The Policy Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), we examine these questions in the specific realm of e-health, using a range of qualitative data drawn from web sites and individual on-line health consumers

Line (geometry · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public life · Sociology · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility · Law · Medicine · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications · Social Media in Health Education

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