Culture-centred approach to digital health communication: Sustaining health, addressing inequalities, transforming structures. Issue 2 (1st October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dutta, Mohan J.
• Is Part Of: Catalan journal of communication & cultural studies. Volume 13:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 311
• Page End: 319
• Publication Date: 2021-10-01
• Subjects: Mass media -- Social aspects -- Spain -- Catalonia -- Periodicals; Communication and culture -- Spain -- Catalonia -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Communication and culture -- Periodicals; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 302.2309467
• DOI: 10.1386/cjcs_00056_7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-1898

Abstract

This essay examines critically the hegemonic discourses of digital health communication, attending to the role of digital technologies in expanding the reach of digital technologies while exacerbating inequalities in health outcomes. Drawing on a culture-centred approach, it foregrounds the role of communication infrastructures for voices at the margins of neo-liberal economies. These voices put forth an organizing logic of care that dismantle the ideology of neo-liberalism.