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THE DIGITAL HEALTH PHENOMENON: PROMISES AND LIMITATIONS
Deborah Lupton
Faculty of Arts & Design
University of Canberra
A new research agenda
Critical digital health studies
• Challenging techno-utopia and solutionism• Identifying social, cultural, political and ethical implications of digital health
• Recognising both their promises and their limitations
Critical digital health studies: evolution of a research program
health sociology
social aspects of HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS metaphors
computer viruses
computers, selfhood & the body
critical digital health studies
Digital health includes
telemedicine, telecare, diagnosis tools
public health surveillance
personalised medicine/patient engagement
health and medical platforms + websites
health promotion strategies
self-tracking (the quantified self)
critical digital health
science and technology
studies
social science of
medicine/public health
surveillance studies
media, cultural and
communication studies
the arts and design
Research questions
• What websites, platforms and apps are valued for health-related information or patient support?
• What kinds of content are created and shared by lay people via social media platforms?
• What do corporate social platforms do with this content?
• How are medical and public health professionals using digital media?
• How are concepts of the self, health, illness and the body configured and understood via digital tech?
• What are the positive and negative effects of digital health tech?
• How might socioeconomic disadvantage and social discrimination be alleviated or exacerbated by digital health tech?
My recent, current + planned critical digital health projects
• mapping the theoretical domain of critical digital health studies
• the commodification of patient experiences on digital platforms
• sexuality and reproductive health apps• medical diagnosis apps (with Annemarie Jutel)• digital surveillance of children + the unborn
Recent, current + planned critical digital health projects
• use of digital tech by professionals in infectious disease surveillance control (with Mike Michael)
• public understandings of big data (with Mike Michael)• the quantified self phenomenon• big data in medicine and healthcare• Google Glass – implications for medicine and public
health• provocative responses to health self-monitoring by artists
and designers
Theoretical perspectives
• The cyborg body/post-human body
• From the haptic to the optic
• Forms of surveillance via digital tech
• Code acts
• Algorithmic identities
More information
• ‘Towards a critical sociology of digital health technologies’ (blog post)
• ‘Social aspects of digital media and health care’ (Scoop.it collection)
• ‘Critical Digital Health Studies’ (Pinterest collection)