Table of Contents

Introduction: Digitised health, medicine and risk Deborah Lupton Risk in the design and development of apps 2. The gamification of risk: how health apps foster self-confidence and why this is not enough 3. Threats and thrills: pregnancy apps, risk and consumption 4. Asthma on the move: how mobile apps remediate risk for disease management 5. Digital ‘solutions’ to unhealthy lifestyle ‘problems’: the construction of social and personal risks in the development of eCoaches Individual users and the construction of risk 6. Digitalised health, risk and motherhood: politics of infant feeding in post-colonial Hong Kong 7. ‘Holy shit, didn’t realise my drinking was high risk’: an analysis of the way risk is enacted through an online alcohol and drug screening intervention 8. Stem cell miracles or Russian roulette?: patients’ use of digital media to campaign for access to clinically unproven treatments Citizens’ understanding of the impact of digital technology on risk 9. Biosensing: how citizens’ views illuminate emerging health and social risks

About the Author

Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor in the News & Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra, Australia. Her research spans sociology and media and cultural studies. She is the author/co-author of 15 books and three edited volumes.