ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sociol.
Sec. Sociological Theory
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1602858
Rethinking social action through the info-ecological dimensions of two collaborative public health platforms. The People’s Health Movement platform and the Citizen Sense Project platform as example of health-net-activism
Provisionally accepted
Silvia Surrenti1*
Massimo Di Felice2- 1University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- 2University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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The analysis of online platforms is usually restricted to their communicative properties, similar to analyzing digital infrastructures that facilitate interactions among users. However, the definition is missing a broader interpretation rather than tools or communicative channels. To review this instrumental vision, scholars in a variety of fields have begun to analyze platforms from a multidisciplinary perspective as technical, economic, and sociocultural ecosystems that characterize the structure of contemporary society. In this article, we adopt an info-ecological approach to the processes of platformization through a qualitative analysis of two platforms dedicated to health and quality of life. The info-ecological approach suggests a new living condition that promotes the emerging computational ecologies composed of a web of people, data, algorithms, biodiversity, information, cities, viruses, and so forth, supporting a more-than-human common experience. The purpose is to examine how the heterogeneity of platform ecosystems (human and non-human) have been generating a cultural shift. That is to say, a-more-than-human interconnected and trans-organic network of networks that in our perspective also represent what we have called a new type of health-net-activism and digital citizenship.
Keywords: Ecological health, trans-organic, Infosphere, platform society, net-activism
Received: 30 Mar 2025; Accepted: 16 Jun 2025.
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* Correspondence: Silvia Surrenti, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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