scholarly journals Disconnect to Reconnect! Self-help to Regain an Authentic Sense of Space Through Digital Detoxing

Disentangling ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 227-252
Author(s):  
Gunn Enli ◽  
Trine Syvertsen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Physical World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Self Help ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
Digital Detox

A typical call in contemporary self-help literature is to “look away from screens and enter the physical world.” Drawing on an empirical analysis of 15 self-help books, this chapter explores advice to reconnect with social and physical spaces by taking a break from digital technology. Digital detox is a relatively new term, but its ideological foundations are familiar from a long history of media and technology criticism. In the chapter, self-help advice on digital detoxing is discussed in the light of classical and contemporary criticism of media influence. Although the self-help books illuminate obstacles and difficulties, they propagate an optimistic belief that invasive technology can be controlled, authenticity restored, and social and physical dislocation reversed.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard V. Smith
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
The Self ◽  
Territorial State ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Paris Peace Conference

This book has sought to deepen the dialogue between history and international relations theory in examining a pivotal moment in the history of international relations. The Paris Peace Conference constituted a historically specific effort to reimagine “the world.” More specifically, it sought to replace anarchy under realism with “sovereignty.” The conference could not live comfortably with the radical liberalism of Wilsonianism, but the international contract made at the time of the armistice with Germany meant that the conference could not live without it. The territorial state and its discontents lay at the heart of sovereignty at the conference. Two logics of the state fought each other to a standstill in Paris—that of the self-help of realism, forever seeking unattainable “security,” and that of the state that exists only in relation to other states, toward some common end.

Human Services and the Self-Help Clearinghouse Concept

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Wollert
Keyword(s):  
Human Services ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
The Self ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Self Help ◽  
History Of ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Research Professionals

Self-help groups hold the potential for helping many persons adjust to life stresses. The self-help clearinghouse concept is a community-centred approach toward developing and realizing this potential. This paper presents a history of clearinghouses and an overview of the services they provide. Planning issues and implementation strategies are also discussed. Although the clearinghouse concept has evolved considerably in the last 10 years, many issues remain to be addressed if clearinghouses are to become established community resources. With the resolution of these issues, however, clearinghouses may give rise to an exciting new practice specialty that integrates service and research. Professionals who are self-help movement by contributing to the development of the clearinghouse concept.

scholarly journals Rethinking communication in virtual learning environments through the concept of Bildung

Seminar.net ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
Charlotta Hilli
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
The Self ◽  
Digital World ◽  
World Communication ◽  
Educational Perspective

The aim of this paper is to discuss the transformative relationship between the self and culture, or Bildung, while considering new technology such as virtual learning environments. It adopts a technocultural educational perspective; the digital world is an extension of the physical world, and as such an extension of humanity. It is the basis for developing identities that are constantly being re-addressed through new encounters with the world. Communication is a central theme in theories of Bildung. From a technocultural standpoint, communication is the space, or interface, where Bildung takes place. In virtual learning environments, there are different ways to communicate, both synchronously and asynchronously. These environments offer communicative spaces where the self is transformed through several actions because of communicating with the software or with other people. The paper suggests rethinking what communication means in education when it is mediated through digital technology. Virtual learning environments make new teaching practices possible that include digital sources and collaborative assignments through intelligent interactions in simulations or social media. Supporting students is crucial for them to learn how to use, understand and navigate these spaces.

scholarly journals Contemporary Self-Help Literature: An Analysis from the Perspective of Governementality Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Urošević
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Self ◽  
Short History ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
Neoliberal Governmentality ◽  
The Third ◽  
Self Help ◽  
History Of ◽  
Governmentality Studies

In this paper we will be analyzing contemporary self-help literature through the lens of what is usually called “governmentality studies”. These studies originate in the thought of Michel Foucault therefore we will begin our paper by presenting his theoretical framework for analyzing governmentality. The concept of the “dispositif” will be explained as a network of power relations aimed at governing individuals. “Subjection” is a concept we wil be using and it will be explained as a process of making individuals a part of a dispositif. Also the concept of “subjectivity” will be used, defined as a relation that an individual has with himself through which he governs himself and the concept of “technologies of the self” defined as a set of discourses through which subjectivity is formed. Our idea is to research contemporary self-help literature as a technology of the self through which an individual governs himself according to the rules of a certain dispositif therefore. In the next part of our paper we will present the context of our research which will be described as a change in governmentality regimes in the second half of the twentieth century. We will present that change as a transition from a disciplinary regime of governemntality to the neoliberal regime. In the next part of our paper we will define self-help literature as a discursive technology of the self that aims at getting its readers to see themselves as having a problem that requires them to transform themselves and therefore achieve happiness. Next we will present a short history oh self-help literature dividing it into three phases that differ in the relation authors have to their readers and in the figure of the big other whose ideas the authors claim to represent. We will claim that our object of research is the third period of the development of self-help literature beginning in the eighties. Next we will present our research that will be conducted by using Foucaults’s theoretical discourse developed in the second volume of his History of Sexuality. We will conclude that contemporary self-help literature can be seen as a technology of the self that transforms the reader’s subjectivity in order to make them govern themselves as autonomous subjects that seek to fulfill their innermost desires. Therefore we will claim that contemporary self-help literature can bee seen as a technology of the self of the neoliberal governmentality regime. 

Group Experiences and Individual Differences in Stuttering

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 4335-4350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth E. Tichenor ◽  
J. Scott Yaruss
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Group Experiences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Adults Who Stutter

Purpose This study explored group experiences and individual differences in the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings perceived by adults who stutter. Respondents' goals when speaking and prior participation in self-help/support groups were used to predict individual differences in reported behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. Method In this study, 502 adults who stutter completed a survey examining their behaviors, thoughts, and feelings in and around moments of stuttering. Data were analyzed to determine distributions of group and individual experiences. Results Speakers reported experiencing a wide range of both overt behaviors (e.g., repetitions) and covert behaviors (e.g., remaining silent, choosing not to speak). Having the goal of not stuttering when speaking was significantly associated with more covert behaviors and more negative cognitive and affective states, whereas a history of self-help/support group participation was significantly associated with a decreased probability of these behaviors and states. Conclusion Data from this survey suggest that participating in self-help/support groups and having a goal of communicating freely (as opposed to trying not to stutter) are associated with less negative life outcomes due to stuttering. Results further indicate that the behaviors, thoughts, and experiences most commonly reported by speakers may not be those that are most readily observed by listeners.

Beyond the self-help polemics.

1988 ◽  
Vol 43 (7) ◽  
pp. 598-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Mahoney
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Help

Co-opting the Self-Help Revolution

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-133
Author(s):  
Nathan Hurvitz
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Help

A Very Critical Look at the Self-Help Movement

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Weiten
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Help

Walter Pater: Personality and Persons

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-250
Author(s):  
Stephen Cheeke
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reception ◽  
The Self ◽  
Walter Pater ◽  
History Of ◽  
Knowledge Of Persons

This article argues for the centrality of notions of personality and persons in the work of Walter Pater and asks how this fits in with his critical reception. Pater's writing is grounded in ideas of personality and persons, of personification, of personal gods and personalised history, of contending voices, and of the possibility of an interior conversation with the logos. Artworks move us as personalities do in life; the principle epistemological analogy is with the knowledge of persons – indeed, ideas are only grasped through the form they take in the individuals in whom they are manifested. The conscience is outwardly embodied in other persons, but also experienced as a conversation with a person inhabiting the most intimate and sovereign dimension of the self. Even when personality is conceived as the walls of a prison-house, it remains a powerful force, able to modify others. This article explores the ways in which these questions are ultimately connected to the paradoxes of Pater's own person and personality, and to the matter of his ‘style’.

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