Digital Health/Digital Capitalism reflections
On fourth of July 2016 I hosted an event at Leeds Beckett University called Digital Health/Digital Capitalism (here is a Storify of tweets from the dayhere is a Storify of tweets from the day). The...
View ArticleDoes self-tracking help to develop “good habits”?
Over the last couple of years I’ve been exploring the relationship between work and the use of self tracking for exercise. In that time I have generally taken a quite critical (perhaps negative) view...
View ArticleSelf-tracking and controlling consciousness
This is a shorter version of a paper presented at the 4S/EASST conference in Barcelona. An increasing amount of organisations and employers are trying to find ways to make their workers healthier and...
View ArticleTechnologies for governing healthy bodies: “surveillance medicine” and public...
In the previous post in this series I discussed the development of the “medical gaze” over time and how this can be seen as technology for constructing the truth of the body. In particular, I looked at...
View ArticleGenetic technologies of the self
In previous posts in this series I have discussed how devices such as X-ray, CT and EEG scans produce representations of the internal structures and processes of the body while reformulating and...
View ArticleNew project – Can activity self-tracking decrease health and social...
This month I started working on a new project with colleagues from Leeds Beckett University and The University of Leeds which will use self-tracked data to assess demographic differences in activity...
View ArticleProductive bodies and ideology of activity
In this post I will summarise and discuss a book chapter I published earlier this year as part of a great collection in the book called Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Exploring health and technology...
View ArticleSelf-tracking and “automatic subjects”
In an article I recently published in Health: an Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine I offered an analysis of self-tracking devices in general and their use...
View ArticleDigital Societies: Coronavirus, online misinformation and biological analogies
Embed from Getty Images This post is part of a series I am writing alongside teaching a module on “Digital Societies”. These discuss issues which are broadly related to the themes of the module but not...
View ArticleOnline event – Covid-19: When Species and Data Meet by Catherine Price
I’m hosting an online webinar for the British Sociological Association Yorkshire Medical Sociology Group at 13:30 on 18th January 20201. This will be a talk followed by a discussion led by Catherine...
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