Laura Wiesböck: Digitale Diagnosen

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Between de-tabooing and glorification - about dealing with mental health in social media. Laura Wiesböck in the taz Talk at the Leipzig Book Fair.

Life crises, emotional wounds and phases of weakness have always been part of being human. But in the digital age, such conditions are increasingly being pathologized. Social media is dominated by terms such as "trauma", "trigger" and "toxic", which are often used in an inflationary manner and without professional context. Self-diagnoses and judgments about others spread with ease.

The taz Studio at the Leipzig Book Fair
Program overview
Where: Hall 5 | G500
Leipzig Book Fair

Registration is not required. As we have a very limited capacity on site, we kindly ask you to be at the venue early. The event will be streamed live on YouTube.
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Where does the necessary de-tabooing of mental health end and the problematic glorification begin? In her new book, sociologist Laura Wiesböck sheds light on the origins and effects of the current hype surrounding "mental health" in social media.

Her work is not only a critical analysis, but also an appeal: for more serenity in dealing with emotional ambivalence and acceptance of the natural depths of life.

Digital diagnoses. Mental health as a social media trend - a taz Talk in the taz Studio at the Leipzig Book Fair with:

🐾 Laura Wiesböck holds a doctorate in sociology and heads the "Digitalization and Social Transformation" group at the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna. In addition to academic articles, she regularly participates in public discourse(SZ, Die Zeit, Der Standard). She has received numerous awards for her work (including the Käthe Leichter Prize and the Theodor Körner Prize). Her new book has been published by Hanser Verlag.

🐾 Katrin Gottschalk moderates this taz Talk. She has been deputy editor-in-chief of taz since April 2016, where she is responsible for taz's digital projects and was previously editor-in-chief of Missy Magazine.

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