Policy Press

Internet Cures

The Social Lives of Digital Miracles

By Dang Nguyen

Published

Dec 1, 2024

Page count

176 pages

ISBN

978-1529235166

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

Dec 1, 2024

Page count

176 pages

ISBN

978-1529235173

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Dang Nguyen is Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

1. Introduction: Digital Miracle Cures

Part 1: Digital Miracle Cures and Non-Biomedical Knowledge

2. Prologue: Making Miracles

3. Digital Miracle Cures in Context : Non-Biomedical Knowledge in Vietnam

4. Digital Miracle Cures as Non-Biomedical Knowledge

Part 2: Written Networks of Digital Miracle Cures

5. Writings on a Wall

6. What’s in a Written Miracle Network? Crowd Digitisation of Healing Recipes and the Limits of Written Culture

7. Mapping Vietnamese Digital Networks of Written Miracle Cures

Part 3: Digital Miracle Cures as Digital Play

8. A New Ocular Legacy

9. If it’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing Live: Livestreaming Miracles

10. Curing as Play: Digital Milieu and Imaginary Digital Situations

11. Curing at the Digital Edge