Wellness is capturing greater attention. Its reach and perception extend beyond the physical dimension encompassing emotions, spirituality or intellectuality. It focuses on a proactivity Self who anticipates challenges and seeks a better version of itself. Social media networks, digital platforms and software have been playing an important role in the health and wellness sphere. In online environments, users seek information, share their thoughts and experiences and propose “recipes” or methods to achieve a better self. In addition to the forms of expression of wellness on social media networks, the number of mobile apps related to wellness has grown in digital stores. It is possible to find solutions inherent to promoting a wellness Self, whose functions can be as vast as monitoring activities and vital signs, the proposal of physical and mental exercises, emotional diaries, nutrition management, or increasing knowledge to mention some possibilities.  We are open to contributions from scholars at all career stages. We look forward to submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:

• The use of digital media for wellbeing expression;

• Health in the digital context: good practices, institutional uses;

• Wellness misinformation and disinformation;

• Social media and mental health; 

• Representations of wellness on media and social media;

• Mobile apps: analysis, uses, trends;

• Wellness as a business on social media;

• Digital influencers and wellness;

• Impact of online representation of wellness;

• Collective imagery of wellness;

• Online communities as spaces of wellness engagement;

• Organizations, Companies and Wellness

• Digital platforms detox.

We are happy to receive your abstract proposal (300 words max) until 15 December, 23:59 (CET).