Selling Glossy, Easy Futures: A Feminist Exploration of Commercial Mental-Health-focused Self-Care Apps’ Descriptions in the Google Play Store
(2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spors, V., Gesine Wagner, H., Flintham, M., Brundell, P., & Murphy, D. (2021, May). Selling Glossy, Easy Futures: A Feminist Exploration of Commercial Mental-Health-focused Self-Care Apps’ Descriptions in the Google Play Store. Presented at CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama Japan
Self-care apps ofer a wide variety of diferent therapy paradigms, pedagogies and concepts for people to maintain and make sense of their mental health. However, as human-made artefacts, these apps are being imbued with their designers' interests, opi... Read More about Selling Glossy, Easy Futures: A Feminist Exploration of Commercial Mental-Health-focused Self-Care Apps’ Descriptions in the Google Play Store.