Ian Tucker - Mental Health and Emotion in the Digital Age
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Mad in America
4.7 • 212 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Ian Tucker is a professor and director of impact and innovation in the school of psychology at the University of East London. His expertise is in digital media, emotion, and mental health, he has published over 45 articles and book chapters and has a monograph book entitled Social Psychology of Emotion. He is currently authoring an Emotion in the Digital Age monograph for Routledge's Studies in Science, Technology, and Society series while working on several projects involving technology and mental health.
In this interview, we discuss how Ian became interested in studying relationships between technology, emotion, and mental health. He addresses some limitations of traditional psychological approaches to these topics and overviews some of his main areas of concern with how digital technology is being used to track people's emotions and regulate their mental health.
Drawing on philosophers like Gilbert Simondon and Henri Bergson, Ian also explores how digital technologies are being used within peer-to-peer communities to create information archives about experiences with distress and medication in ways that offer collective support.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Madden America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Madden America podcast. This is Science News writer Tim Beck. I will be interviewing Ian Tucker, professor and director of impact and innovation in the School of Psychology at University of East London. |
| 0:25.6 | He has expertise in digital media, emotion and mental health, and has published over 45 articles and book chapters, and has a monograph book entitled of Social Psychology of Emotion. |
| 0:35.6 | He is currently authoring an Emotion in the Digital Age monograph for Rel of Social Psychology of Emotion. He is currently authoring an emotion in the |
| 0:38.5 | Digital Age monograph for Religious Studies in Science, Technology, and Society series while working on |
| 0:44.3 | several projects involving technology and mental health. So welcome, Ian. It's great to talk to you |
| 0:49.2 | today. Thanks very much. Great to be you. Just to get started, I noticed you have a really broad range of transdisciplinary research interests. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm wondering if you could share a little bit of information about your background. |
| 1:00.0 | So do you have a PhD in psychology, philosophy, social theory, mental health? |
| 1:05.0 | What's your background there? |
| 1:06.0 | My background's in psychology. I did an undergraduate degree in psychology and then I did a PhD in |
| 1:12.7 | psychology as well. I think the kind of interdisciplinary of it and the kind of transdisciplinary |
| 1:19.3 | of it comes from the probably mostly from my PhD work. So I did my PhD in the early 2000s at Loughborough University. It's a really interesting |
| 1:30.3 | place at the time because there was a group, you may well have heard there's a group of people |
| 1:34.2 | in the kind of social sciences there who had developed a kind of an approach to studying psychology |
| 1:41.1 | as interaction, kind of known as discourse analysis. |
| 1:45.4 | You know, really kind of well known. |
| 1:51.1 | But in a slightly different department where there was also a psychology element, |
| 1:55.4 | there was a group of us working with, I was supervised by Professor Steve Brown, |
| 1:56.9 | there was Professor John Kwombe there. We were kind of really interested in psychology as a kind of embodied material kind of |
| 2:04.1 | experience. So in a sense, although I'd been trained in psychology and I've done all the kind of, |
| 2:09.8 | you know, cognitive psychology and neuropsychology and all those things as an undergraduate, |
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