Detalhes bibliográficos
| Ano de defesa: |
2019 |
| Autor(a) principal: |
Mazzilli, Paola
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| Orientador(a): |
Sant'Anna, Denise Bernuzzi de |
| Banca de defesa: |
Não Informado pela instituição |
| Tipo de documento: |
Tese
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| Tipo de acesso: |
Acesso aberto |
| Idioma: |
por |
| Instituição de defesa: |
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
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| Programa de Pós-Graduação: |
Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Psicologia: Psicologia Clínica
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| Departamento: |
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e da Saúde
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| País: |
Brasil
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| Palavras-chave em Português: |
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| Palavras-chave em Inglês: |
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| Área do conhecimento CNPq: |
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| Link de acesso: |
https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/22228
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Resumo: |
This research aims at investigating the offer of self-help mobile applications in the Brazilian scenario, in the beginning of the XXI century. Considered to be important behavioral shapers, such resources are a privileged study object to peer the emergence of a therapeutic culture, marked by values like connectivity and personal empowerment. Having in mind the understanding of how this technology has levered self-improvement practices in terms of health and well-being, we propose a comparison between the self-help literature and the new formats of this kind, directed to mobile devices. From the theoretical point of view, we propose a transdisciplinary study, including authors such as Levy, Kellner, Lemos, Auntoun Costa, Rose, Binkley, Sibilia, Sant’anna, Hoff, Rüdger, Freire Filho e Castellano. To compile such a comparison, we tabulate and analyze all 6.370 self-help books available at the Amazon.com.br site, as well as 1.018 self-help apps available for download at the Brazilian Play Store. It is worth mentioning that the number of these apps is exponentially increasing in recent years, dealing with a several- million-dollar market. By carrying out such an exhaustive mapping, we notice a remarkable paradigm change. Beyond encompassing the learning repertoires previously gathered in the self-help books, the applications are much more sophisticated resources in terms of personal management, since their interactivity allows for the individuals’ auto-diagnosis and auto-monitoring. However, in spite of feeling themselves more cared for and more autonomous, the applications’ users find themselves ever more dependent on these technologies, as for each established goal there is a created passive to be paid. Hence, the “processing” dynamics carried out by the self-help applications makes them personal-development technologies that are much more complex and inscrutable |
