Marjo Kolehmaisen uusi artikkeli “Vibrant Screens: Remote therapy and counselling through the lens of digital materiality” on nyt julkaistu Health-lehdessä (Volume 29, Issue 2) ja on avoimesti luettavissa osoitteessa https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593241234491 https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593241234491
Abstrakti
This article analyses the digital screen as a health technology. In particular, the article asks how screens as a part of therapy settings or counselling practices materialise – or fail to materialise – care. The empirical data comprise interviews with therapy and counselling professionals, whose experiences with technology during the COVID-19 pandemic were my original interest. Adopting a sociomaterial approach to technology use, it scrutinises not only how screens are used, but also how screens themselves act and operate. This approach foregrounds the screen as ‘multiple’, complicating a dichotomous understanding between in-person therapy and remote therapy. The article argues that the screen operates in a variety of ways that might either facilitate or degrade care and is an essential part of more-than-human care in digitalised societies. Acknowledging the agential capacities of all matter, the article also conceptualises screens as ‘vibrant matter’.