Digital Media As Ambient Therapy - The Ecological Self Between Resonance and Alienation

Digital Media as Ambient Therapy explores the ways mental illness can emerge from our relationships (with ourselves, others, and the world), to address the concern around what kind of relationality is conducive for mental health and what role digital technologies can play in fostering such relationality.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: From "Mental Illness" to "Environmental Illness"
Chapter 2: Mute Instruments and Resonant Relations
Chapter 3: The Agonies of Freedom and Control
Chapter 4: QAnon: From the Resonant to the Digitally Sublime
Conclusion

About the author

Francis Russell is an independent researcher and a trade union official based in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia. He worked as a lecturer in cultural studies for over a decade, and is one of the founders of the School of Critical Arts, an independent organisation for the study of philosophy and contemporary art. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on the relationship between alienation, "mental illness," and neoliberalism. Along with artist David Attwood he co-edited the book The Art of Laziness: Contemporary Art and Post-Work Politics.

Product details

• Authors: Francis (Curtin University Russell, Russell Francis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032104119
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3210411-9
• No. of pages: 108
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; History, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, MEDICAL / Mental Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, The arts, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Psychotherapy, Political structure & processes, Humanities, Communication Studies, Political campaigning & advertising, Disability: social aspects, Political campaigning and advertising, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Games development & programming, Political structure and processes, Games development and programming, Digital Animation, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability