Digital Media as Ambient Therapy explores the ways ?mental illness? can emerge from our relationships (with ourselves, others, and the world), to address the concern around what kind of relationality is conducive for ?mental health? and what role digital technologies can play in fostering such relationality.

Exploring the rise of ambient?that is to say, ubiquitous, surrounding, and environmental?technologies and their impact on our understanding of ?mental health,? sanity, and therapy, this book critically examines the work of influential contemporary social theorists such as Hartmut Rosa and investigates case studies that reveal new modes of digitally mediated intimacy and attention, such as ASMR and QAnon. It also poses the question of what ?mental health? and ?mental illness? mean for subjects increasingly faced with a maddening sense of interconnectedness.

This book offers new perspectives for academics and postgraduates interested in critical discussions of alienation, digital technology, and contemporary social theory.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: From ?Mental Illness? to ?Environmental Illness?

Chapter 2: Mute Instruments and Resonant Relations

Chapter 3: The Agonies of Freedom and Control

Chapter 4: QAnon: From the Resonant to the Digitally Sublime

Conclusion

Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks

Social issues, social work

Sociology of minorities

Medicine in general

Computer Graphics Softwares

Arts in general

Psychotherapy, clinical psychology

Further readings in medicine

Game planning

Gender studies

Cultural studies

Media and communication science in general

Political systems and theories

Further readings in politics

Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks (charity campaign)

Social issues, social work (charity campaign)

Sociology of minorities (charity campaign)

Medicine in general (charity campaign)

Computer Graphics Softwares (charity campaign)

Arts in general (charity campaign)

Psychotherapy, clinical psychology (charity campaign)

Further readings in medicine (charity campaign)

Game planning (charity campaign)

Gender studies (charity campaign)

Cultural studies (charity campaign)

Media and communication science in general (charity campaign)

Political systems and theories (charity campaign)

Further readings in politics (charity campaign)

Digital Media as Ambient Therapy