Between Empowerment and Manipulation

Between Empowerment and Manipulation
Author: Marijn Sax
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9403537922

Popular health apps are commercial services. Despite the promise of empowerment they offer, the tensions introduced by their data-driven, dynamically adjustable digital environments engender a potential for manipulation to which their designers and operators can easily succumb. In this important book, the author develops an ethical framework to evaluate the commercial practices of for-profit health apps, proceeding to a detailed proposal of how to legally address the exploitation, for financial gain, of users’ need for health. Focusing on the intricate tracking of users over time, coupled with the possibility to personalize the environment based on knowledge gained from tracking, the book’s in-depth analysis of popular for-profit health apps engages with such particulars as the following: the strategic framing of health in health apps; the cultural tendency to presume we are unhealthy until we have proven we are healthy; the key concepts of autonomy, vulnerability, trust, and manipulation; how health apps develop ongoing profitable relationships with users; and use of misleading and aggressive commercial practices. The author argues that the European Union’s Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, when informed by ethical considerations, offers promising legal solutions to the manipulation concerns raised by popular for-profit health apps. The book will be welcomed not only for its incisive scrutiny of the health app phenomenon but also for the light it sheds on the wider problems inherent in the digital society—what digital environments know about their users, how they use that knowledge, and for which purpose. Its progress from an ethical approach to legal solutions will recommend the book to lawyers concerned with business practices, human resources professionals, policymakers, and academics interested in the intersection of ethics and law.

Questioning Empowerment

Questioning Empowerment
Author: Jo Rowlands
Publisher: Oxfam
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780855983628

Focusing on the term empowerment this book examines the various meanings given to the concept of empowerment and the many ways power can be expressed - in personal relationships and in wider social interactions.

Handbook of Community Psychology

Handbook of Community Psychology
Author: Julian Rappaport
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1046
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 146154193X

This comprehensive handbook, the first in its field, brings together 106 different contributors. The 38 interrelated but at the same time independent chapters discuss key areas including conceptual frameworks; empirically grounded constructs; intervention strategies and tactics; social systems; designs, assessment, and analysis; cross-cutting professional issues; and contemporary intersections with related fields such as violence prevention and HIV/AIDS.

Character Disturbance

Character Disturbance
Author: George K. Simon
Publisher: Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781935166320

A psychologist helps readers understand a variety of personality disorders and offers advice on dealing with clinically disturbed people.

Power, Empowerment and Social Change

Power, Empowerment and Social Change
Author: Rosemary McGee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-11-06
Genre: Equality
ISBN: 9781138575318

This book uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be resisted or transformed through empowered collective action and social leadership. The stakes have never been higher. Recent years have seen a rapid escalation of inequalities, the rise of new global powers and corporate interests, increasing impunity of human rights violations, suppression of civil society, and a re-shaping of democratic processes by post-truth, populist and nationalist politics. Rather than looking at power through the lenses of agency or structure alone, this book views power and empowerment as complex and multidimensional societal processes, defined by pervasive social norms, conditions, constraints and opportunities. Bridging theory and practice, the book explores real-world applications using a selection of frameworks, tools, case studies, examples, resources and reflections from experience to support actors to analyse their positioning and align themselves with progressive social forces. Compiled with social change practitioners, students and scholars in mind, Power, Empowerment and Social Change is the perfect volume for anyone involved in politics, international development, sociology, human rights and environmental justice who is looking for fresh insights for transforming power in favour of relatively less powerful people.

Civic Driven Change through Self-Empowerment

Civic Driven Change through Self-Empowerment
Author: Toon van Eijk
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2010
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1445748398

In recent years foreign aid has been increasingly criticized for not being very effective. A promising new concept and methodology in the discourse on development is Civic Driven Change (CDC). This form of bottom-up and participatory 'aided change' certainly enriches the debate on development. Nevertheless, some challenging aspects in its operationalization remain to be solved. The biggest problem in CDC might be that the analysis of the multi-dimensional process of development remains too superficial to create significant impact. The role of citizens as agents of development is indisputable and a redesign of states and markets 'from within' is essential. This, however, not only implies that the citizens themselves, as the building blocks of societal institutions, must develop civic agency. They also need to access the deeper, more inner levels of human consciousness. Societal transformation demands above all personal transformation. If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

A Reader in Promoting Public Health

A Reader in Promoting Public Health
Author: Jenny Douglas
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1446247740

The second edition of A Reader in Promoting Public Health brings together a selection of readings that explore and challenge current thinking in the field of multidisciplinary public health. This thoroughly updated and revised new edition addresses contemporary issues that are high on the agenda of public health, and enables the reader to understand and negotiate this broad and dynamic field of study. The book is organised into five sections, each with an accessible and student-friendly introduction that pulls together the key themes and issues: - Back to the future? Reflections on multidisciplinary public health takes stock of the scope and ambition of contemporary public health; - Research for evidence-based practice explores research methods, tools and techniques for developing effective public health practice; - Promoting health through public policy examines policy challenges, responses and key debates at national, international and global level : - Promoting public health at a local level explores public health and health promotion in a participatory and community context; - Public health for the 21st century: whose voices? whose values? examines debates which expose alternative futures, priorities and boundaries for public health work. This second edition includes new material on health inequalities, health protection, social marketing and health promotion, as well as highlighting the practical requirements of public health work through ′grass roots′ accounts of practice. It will be essential reading for all students of public health and health promotion, as well as for health and social care professionals.

Dreamscape Nexus

Dreamscape Nexus
Author: Pax Greendale
Publisher: Publifye AS
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2024-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 823393030X

In "Dreamscape Nexus," Adrian Able plunges readers into a mesmerizing world where the boundaries between dreams and reality blur. Zara, a brilliant young neuroscientist, uncovers the ability to access and manipulate humanity's collective dreamscape. As she explores this ethereal realm, she stumbles upon a sinister plot that threatens to unravel both the dream world and waking reality. Able's narrative weaves a thrilling tapestry of mind-bending adventures and ethical dilemmas. Zara must navigate treacherous dreamscapes, confront her deepest fears, and assemble an unlikely team of dreamers to prevent an impending catastrophe. The story pulses with tension as the protagonists race against time, their actions blurring the line between sleep and wakefulness. Through vivid imagery and intricate world-building, readers are invited to question the nature of consciousness and explore the vast potential of the human mind.

Project and Design Literacy as Cornerstones of Smart Education

Project and Design Literacy as Cornerstones of Smart Education
Author: Matthias Rehm
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-09-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811396523

The book includes high-quality papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development at Università Roma Tor Vergata, Italy, from 22 to 24 May, 2019. Providing insights into the relevance of smart learning ecosystems (schools, campuses, the workplace, informal learning contexts, etc.) for regional development and social innovation, it also discusses how citizens’ involvement with smart ecosystems can be increased and made more effective.