Digital wellness, health and fitness influencers : critical perspectives on digital guru media /: critical perspectives on digital guru media. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stefan Lawrence.
• Editors: Lawrence, Stefan
• Contents: 1 “I am Not Your Guru”: Situating Digital Guru Media Amidst the Neoliberal Imperative of Self-Health Management and the ‘Post-Truth’ Society Stefan Lawrence 2 Panic Fitness in Claustropolitan Times: Les Mills, Zombie Leisure and Deterritorialization Tara Brabazon 3 The Appearance of Authority in Health and Wellbeing Media: Analysing Digital Guru Media through Lacan’s ‘Big Other’ Jack Black 4 Personal Science and the Quantified Self Guru Btihaj Ajana 5 Just a New Slant on a Very Old Story? Digital Guru Media Seen Through an Evolutionary Lens Tony Myers 6 Fitness Influencers and Their Digital Communities: Kayla Itsines and the (Re)Making of Fit Femininity Madison Magladry, Kim Toffoletti and Holly Thorpe 7 Digital Media and the Promotion of a Clean Eating Lifestyle: From “Glowing Femininities” to “Skinny Privilege” Roseline Nicholls and Paul Gilchrist 8 Fitness Trainers Perceptions of Social Media: I’m a Fitness Professional, Not an Influencer Sarah Wymer 9 Swoldiers in the Swole Nation: YouTube Fitness Vlogs and the Performance of Mental Health, Strength, and Happiness on Social Media Stephen Pihlaja 10 Young People, Social Media and Health: A Pedagogical Perspective on Influencers Victoria A. Goodyear 11 “Do you Love Me?” Virtual Sincerity and the Cyberspaces of Wonder in Nick Cave’s The Red Hand Files Carlton Brick 12 Digital Guru Media for Self-Health Management and Wellbeing: The Good, the Bad, and the Pragmatic Strategies for Improvement William E. Donald
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 613.7; Physical fitness and technology; Internet personalities; Health -- Psychological aspects; Digital media -- Influence; Social media -- Psychological aspects; Social influence -- Psychological aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000772142; 9781000772098; 9781003256021
• Related ISBNs: 9781032044422
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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