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Persuasive technology refers to research after and development of instruments that can support people, society, institutions or governments to persuade other people of a particular opinion or to behave in a particular way. A digital lifestyle coach is a behavior change support system, a special type of persuasive technology. Rhetoric and social psychology are basic sciences that inform technologists about the principles, strategies and tactics of persuasive communication and about the factors that determine the successfulness of the use of persuasive technologies. We present the main requirements for these technologies and show how they motivate the use of information and communication technology, services, sensors and new mobile hardware devices. Digital coaches play the role of a human coach and clients experience the system as a social actor. This motivates to present the system on the user interface as a graphical virtual human that addresses her messages verbally to the client. Research has shown that this may have a positive effect on the successfulness of the system. As an illustration we present a digital coach that is developed to support diabetes patients to adhere to a more healthy lifestyle. We present results of a comparative experiment to see if the use of a virtual human improves the eectiveness of the digital coach compared to presenting the message by a simple text message.

Cyberpop is an analysis of cyberculture and its popular cultural productions. The study begins with a Foucaultian model of cyberculture as a discursive formation, and explains how some key concepts (such as 'virtuality,' 'speed,' and 'Connectivity') operate as a conceptual architecture network linking technologies to information and individual subjects. The chapters then each focus on a particular cyberfiguration, including Hollywood films (GATTACA, The Matrix), popular literature (William Gibson's Neuromancer, Scott Westerfeld's Polymorph), adverti

HealthyWeighHub (HWH) is a 12-month coaching and education service designed to help patients with obesity make permanent life changes, launched and expanded gradually in Helsinki University Hospital (HUS) Healthvillage since 2016.
We examined the direct secondary care cost benefits of HWH, measured with potential capacity freed (PCF) compared to conventional group coaching (CGC). Costs included health care, patient co-payments and travelling expenses. First, we evaluated the PCF actualized in the first two years from 2016 to 2018 in the HUS Specific Catchment Area (HUS ERVA). Then, we predicted the PCF at Finnish national level, if HWH was implemented gradually over the five years from 2018 to 2022, aimed at treating 1 % of adults with obesity annually in 2022.
HWH's actualized PCF was €2.69 million compared to CGC in the first two years in HUS ERVA. If the patients who received CGC had been treated with HWH instead, total PCF could have been €3.71 million. At Finnish national level, providing CGC to 1 % of adults with obesity was predicted to cost €28.0 million (€5.08 per capita) annually in 2022. With HWH predicted cost was €7.31 million (€1.33 per capita), meaning an annual PCF of €20.7 million (€3.75 per capita) in 2022 and cumulative five-year PCF of €57.5 million (€10.43 per capita). Compared to CGC, HWH is estimated to enable treatment of approximately 3.8-times more patients with obesity at the same cost.
HWH can be more affordable than CGC and a potentially efficient tool to combat the obesity epidemic. Future evaluations should examine HWH's effectiveness and impact on the indirect costs associated with weight loss and long-term illness.

Governments have increasingly turned to digital technologies as a means of rebuilding their public sectors, allowing them to heighten efficiency, cut expenditure, and deliver new services to citizens. However, rather than merely a technical upgrading of governmental institutions, digital reforms and IT policymaking are deeply political practices concerned with producing and imposing certain normative and ideological visions of the social world. Denmark is often labelled as a leading nation in terms of implementing digital governance, but the political and normative dimensions of digital reforms within the Danish welfare state are yet to be systematically investigated. This paper provides a historical study of Danish IT policies from 1994 to 2016. Relying on archival research of national policies and drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's work on the state, we explore how the IT political field has emerged through symbolic struggles over time and how these struggles have produced particular forms of "digital lifestyles ". We find that two overall logics have dominated within the Danish IT political field. In 1994-2001, solidarity, equality and local Danish values were highlighting as core components of a digital life. However, from 2002, economic efficiency, competitiveness and self-governance become the main ideals. In this way, the IT political field has increasingly come to converge with neoliberal discourses concerned with imposing market-like dynamics on the public sector and population. The paper concludes with a reflection on how the concept of digital lifestyles may help us understand these changes. ; Governments have increasingly turned to digital technologies as a means of rebuilding their public sectors, allowing them to heighten efficiency, cut expenditure, and deliver new services to citizens. However, rather than merely a technical upgrading of governmental institutions, digital reforms and IT policymaking are deeply political practices concerned with producing and imposing certain normative and ideological visions of the social world. Denmark is often labelled as a leading nation in terms of implementing digital governance, but the political and normative dimensions of digital reforms within the Danish welfare state are yet to be systematically investigated. This paper provides a historical study of Danish IT policies from 1994 to 2016. Relying on archival research of national policies and drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's work on the state, we explore how the IT political field has emerged through symbolic struggles over time and how these struggles have produced particular forms of "digital lifestyles". We find that two overall logics have dominated within the Danish IT political field. In 1994-2001, solidarity, equality and local Danish values were highlighting as core components of a digital life, but from 2002, however, economic efficiency, competitiveness and self-governance become the main ideals. In this way, the IT political field has increasingly come to converge with neoliberal discourses concerned with imposing market-like dynamics on the public sector and population. The paper concludes with a reflection on how the concept of digital lifestyles may help us understand these changes, and argues that the current dominant discourse should be challenged.

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Kuduro is a style of dance and electronic music that emerged in Angola in the nineties, in a peculiar social context. Initially consumed and produced by young people from the periphery of the city of Luanda, it became a means of expression, entertainment, socialization and subsistence, through which they became autonomous and symbolically transformed their realities of scarcity. With access to communication technologies and movements of global dispersion of people and information, kuduro also spread to other countries and gained other meanings. Here, I analyze the characteristics of its context of origin, the conditions and implications of such dispersal, and disputes over the meanings of style.

This study contributes to the theoretical perspectives on digital nomad identity. The aim is to go beyond the construction of the nomadic identity framed as identi-ty work in liquid modernity. In doing that, the paper offers an empirical investiga-tion of how knowledge workers construct and perform nomadic subjectivities through liminal work identities in under-institutionalized contexts and symbolic consumption. Drawing on the life history of digital nomads living in Chiang Mai and Bangkok (Thailand), this work concludes that digital nomads know or make the experience that the nomadic lifestyle is not a permanent way of life but a spe-cific stage of their life paths. Digital nomads frame their projects of self-realization through the digital nomad lifestyle as a liminal transition. The digital nomad identi-ty emerges as a temporary and opportunistic assemblage of neoliberal do-it-yourself biographies toward the emergence of a post-nomadic identity. However, the paradoxes and constraints embedded in the digital nomad lifestyle can freeze digital nomads in an objective and subjective permanent liminal condition.

Wir sind reicher denn je. Zumindest gemessen an jener freien Zeit, die als Grundvoraussetzung menschlichen Fortschritts gilt und in der wir Heilmittel gegen Krebs entwickeln, Kunstwerke erschaffen und die Welt zu einem besseren Ort machen können. Doch wie Gérald Bronner in seinem hochaktuellen und Augen öffnenden Buch zeigt, laufen wir Gefahr, diesen kostbaren Schatz zu verspielen, lassen wir zu, dass die Verlockungen der digitalen Welt den Wettbewerb um unsere Aufmerksamkeit gewinnen. 3,7 Stunden verbringen wir täglich vor Bildschirmen. Wir lesen Mails, schauen Videos, springen von einer Website zur nächsten, prüfen, wie viele Likes unser neues Profilbild hat, scrollen durch soziale Netzwerke, und selbst die Suche nach einem neuen Partner verlagert sich zunehmend in die digitale Welt. Wir swipen, klicken, liken, kommentieren und merken kaum, was es bedeutet, dass wir das Gros unserer freien Zeit in einer Welt zubringen, in der Hass, krude Theorien und Fake News oft mühelos Wahrheit, Wissenschaft und gute Argumente dominieren. In seiner Pathologie der digitalen Gesellschaft erklärt der renommierte Soziologe Gérald Bronner, gestützt auf soziologische, psychologische und neurowissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, was unser Verhalten in der digitalen Welt über uns und unsere tiefsten Sehnsüchte offenbart.

Ob elektronische Patientenakte oder virtuelle Sprechstunden: Digitale Entwicklungen haben in den vergangenen Jahren zunehmend Eingang in medizinische Versorgungsstrukturen und die individuelle Gesundheitsvorsorge gefunden. Zudem findet die Kommunikation über Gesundheit und Krankheit im Alltag von Menschen immer öfter auch mittels digitaler Medien statt und ist zum Lifestyle-Element geworden: Fitnesstracker, Gesundheitsapps oder Fitness-Stories auf Instagram erfreuen sich wachsender Beliebtheit. Der vorliegende Band versammelt 13 theoretische und empirische Beiträge, die die Folgen des digitalen Wandels im Gesundheitsbereich anhand von drei Schwerpunkten nachvollziehen: 1) Mit Blick auf die Bedeutung digitaler Medientechnologien für Arzt-Patienten-Beziehungen und die Versorgung von Patient*innen, 2) hinsichtlich der Potenziale und Grenzen digitaler Medientechnologien in der Gesundheitskommunikation sowie 3) in Bezug auf die Wirkungen gesundheitsbezogener digitaler Medienangebote.Mit Beiträgen von Florian Arendt, Eva Baumann, Astrid Carolus, Katharina Emde-Lachmund, Lorenz Harst, Julia Hauswald, Simone Jäger, Anja Kalch, Veronika Karnowski, Constanze Küchler, Elena Link, Christine Linke, Antonia Markiewitz, Marina Mergen, Julia Niemann-Lenz, Daniel Possler, Doreen Reifegerste, Claudia Riesmeyer, Magdalena Rosset, Constanze Rossmann, Sebastian Scherr, Esther Schmotz, Robin Seel, Paula Stehr, Mareike Schwepe, Patrick Timpel, Carolin Wienrich