MACMILLAN Navigating Digital Health Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary Analysis (Health, Technology and Society)

Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information. It is the first book to conceptualise the internet as a landscape and the ways in which people navigate this digital world, including the complex entanglements between on and offline domains. It does so through a range of disciplinary perspectives from expert contributors across STS (science and technology studies), social anthropology, biomedicine, ethics and law, linguistics, social policy and computer scientists working in more technical aspects of tracking and visualising data and information on the internet. The book provides a unique and valuable contribution for those wishing to understand how digital technologies are affecting the design, implementation and use of digital systems to manage health information in different contexts. From the Back Cover Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information. It is the first book to conceptualise the internet as a landscape and the ways in which people navigate this digital world, including the complex entanglements between on and offline domains. It does so through a range of disciplinary perspectives from expert contributors across STS (science and technology studies), social anthropology, biomedicine, ethics and law, linguistics, social policy and computer scientists working in more technical aspects of tracking and visualising data and information on the internet. The book provides a unique and valuable contribution for those wishing to understand how digital technologies are affecting the design, implementation and use of digital systems to manage health information in different contexts. About the Author Anna Lydia Svalastog is Professor of Psychosocial work at Østfold University College, Norway.  Srećko Gajović is Professor and Head of Department of Histology and Embryology at Zagreb University School of Medicine, and member of the Croatian Institute for Brain Research. Andrew Webster is Emeritus Professor in the Sociology of Science and Technology at the University of York, UK and founder and member of the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU).