Disrupt or Die: Mobile Health and Disruptive Innovation as Body Politics

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This article examines mobile health as a venue for disruptive innovation. It theorizes disruption as a discursive strategy and a business model that permeates and constructs Silicon Valley. The current trend toward for-profit privatization of healthcare has been used by Silicon Valley to market and develop mobile health technological solutions to the complex socioeconomic problem of healthcare delivery. The discourse of disruption shapes the mobile health industry's focus on individualized and personalized solutions to healthcare challenges. The article analyzes mobile health apps and their discourses as a case study through which we can begin to understand disruption's impact on the political sphere in general and the body politic in particular.

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Television and New Media

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