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TY - JOUR
T1 - The daily digital practice as a form of self-care
T2 - Using photography for everyday well-being
AU - Brewster, Liz
AU - Cox, Andrew
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Health, ? (?), 2018, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Health page: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/HEA on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - Interest in the connection between involvement in digital communities and well-being has increased as these communities become more commonplace. Specific models of interaction that affect well-being have emerged; here, we examine one of those models, termed ‘digital daily practice’. Digital daily practices involve a commitment to doing one thing – exercise, photography and writing – every day and sharing it online. Participants in these practices agree that they provide an unexpected benefit of improving well-being. This article makes an in-depth examination of one digital daily practice, photo-a-day, using a practice theory framework to understand the affordances it offers for well-being. We engage with the literature on well-being and self-care, critiquing its presentation of well-being as an individual trait. We present data from an ethnographic study including interviews and observations to highlight how photo-a-day as a practice functions as self-care and how communities are formed around it. Photo-a-day is not a simple and uncomplicated practice; rather it is the complex affordances and variance within the practice that relate it to well-being. We conclude that this practice has multi-faceted benefits for improving well-being.
AB - Interest in the connection between involvement in digital communities and well-being has increased as these communities become more commonplace. Specific models of interaction that affect well-being have emerged; here, we examine one of those models, termed ‘digital daily practice’. Digital daily practices involve a commitment to doing one thing – exercise, photography and writing – every day and sharing it online. Participants in these practices agree that they provide an unexpected benefit of improving well-being. This article makes an in-depth examination of one digital daily practice, photo-a-day, using a practice theory framework to understand the affordances it offers for well-being. We engage with the literature on well-being and self-care, critiquing its presentation of well-being as an individual trait. We present data from an ethnographic study including interviews and observations to highlight how photo-a-day as a practice functions as self-care and how communities are formed around it. Photo-a-day is not a simple and uncomplicated practice; rather it is the complex affordances and variance within the practice that relate it to well-being. We conclude that this practice has multi-faceted benefits for improving well-being.
KW - creativity
KW - online community
KW - photography
KW - self-care
KW - well-being
U2 - 10.1177/1363459318769465
DO - 10.1177/1363459318769465
M3 - Journal article
VL - 23
SP - 621
EP - 638
JO - Health
JF - Health
SN - 1363-4593
IS - 6
ER -