Julian Vigo, Contributor

Is the phenomenon of what is called Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) a result of our “real life” cultural alienation or is it a product of our internet use?

How have patient advocacy groups created an environment for clinicians and researchers to use science effectively in creating medicines, cures and therapies that are best suited for the patient? This piece examines the thorny terrains of where medical …

Technology today both imitates the human body and extends abilities to our bodies. This article explores the uses and abuses of technology designed around the human body from Henrietta Lacks to the present day.

This article examines the nexus between mHealth technology specific to Alzheimer’s Disease and culture. How might new technology help bridge the divide which separates those struggling with the reality of dementia from the rest of society?

How does new technology and social media affect our growing obsession with self-improvement, wellness and beauty?

With the onslaught of legal measures made in recent weeks focussing on vaping, might it be a better idea for the U.S. and Canada to look toward the Irish and British models of how we approach the growing vape culture amongst high school students?

In an age where self-help books and motivational speakers are being eclipsed by new technology, how are our conceptions of therapy changing? This article examines the burgeoning self-help app market and cultural accommodations to new tech.

Where one theorist claims that neoliberalism controls populations through the anthropomorphization of the economy while being largely cemented and structured by the media, I argue that so too are our concepts of beauty and bodily perceptions which are…

As smoking products have shifted from the traditional cigarette to the vaporizer, youth culture is still being examined as to why it rebels through such substances. Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions and need to understand new smoking tech withi…

In order to understand how gender ideology is what it is today, I shall turn here to all three writers at the epicenter of academic critique of gender in an attempt to review certain historical “givens” of gender that have been constructed throughout t…