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Digital Wellness, Health and Fitness Influencers: Critical Perspectives on Digital Guru Media

Digital Wellness, Health and Fitness Influencers: Critical Perspectives on Digital Guru Media

Lawrence, Stefan

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Series: Routledge Critical Leisure Studies

Sports GeneralGeneral SociologyGeneral Fitness

ISBN10: 1032187468
ISBN13: 9781032187464
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2024
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines the phenomenon of 'digital guru media' (DGM), the self-styled online influencers, life coaches, experts and entrepreneurs who post on the themes of wellness, health and fitness.

It opens up new perspectives on digital leisure and internet celebrity culture, and asks important questions about the social, cultural and psychological implications of our contemporary relationship with digital media. Drawing on cutting-edge social theory, the book explores a wide range of contexts in which DGM intersects with digital leisure, from the health-related learning of young people to the 'clean eating' movement, to the online lives of fitness professionals. It asks if digital and social media are problematic per se and explores the problems a turn to the Internet could be revealing about the lack of real-world or analogue support, as well as potential solutions, for our wellness, health and fitness needs and wants.

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