Arts-Based Digital Health

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect papers that advance the field of arts-based digital health and digital interdisciplinary approaches to health. Arts-based practices, including storytelling, play an important role in health by providing opportunities to understand and transform health experiences. The development of digital technologies, including but not limited to, web 2.0, digital applications, digital stories, and videos, have extended and transformed these possibilities. Exciting theoretical frameworks run alongside these developments, and there is significant potential for inter- and trans-disciplinary thinking with researchers engaging with arts-based digital health across the arts, humanities, and social sciences including psychology, medicine, human–computer interaction, and science and technology studies. The aim of this Special Issue is to advance this field by showcasing a range of scholarship that speaks to the current and future possibilities of arts-based digital health and digital interdisciplinary approaches to health, well-being, and individual and cultural flourishing. Research articles, review articles, and short position pieces are invited. Potential research topics include but are not limited to: 

• Arts-based digital health interventions;
• Participatory digital arts-based projects addressing health issues;
• Creative digital methodologies in health;
• The role of digital health in challenging injustices in healthcare;
• Feminist science and technology studies;
• Online bibliotherapy and storytelling;
• Arts-based digital health activism and user-produced digital health artifacts;
• Digital-based dissemination;
• How the arts can inform digital health technologies;
• Game design and gamifying health;
• Digital approaches to health, well-being, and cultural reclamation.

Prof. Dr. Sarah Riley
Dr. Astrid Ensslin
Dr. Carla Rice
Dr. Christine Wilks
Guest Editors

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