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Can lip-syncing save lives?

Viral health information on TikTok Clare Southerton With the rapid rise of short-form video-sharing platform TikTok, health professionals have started mobilising the popularity of the site to provide users insight into their work conditions as well as offer health advice. In the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis, social media has played a particularly centralContinue reading “Can lip-syncing save lives?”

Digital Food Cultures book now published

Originally posted on This Sociological Life:
? My latest book, Digital Food Cultures, co-edited with Zeena Feldman, has now been published with Routledge, as part of their Critical Food Studies Series. The abstracts and authors of each chapter are listed below. A book preview on Google Books is available here. 1. Understanding Digital Food Cultures:…

Call for abstracts – special section on ‘Sociology and the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic’

Originally posted on This Sociological Life:
For those people who feel they might like to contribute their expertise and insights, please see this call for papers for a special section of Health Sociology Review I am editing on sociology and the coronavirus. This is a fast-tracked process designed to get important insights out as quickly…

“Mummy & Daddy…Please look at ME!”: Analysing messages to parents about technology use

Marianne Clark, Vicki Harman and Clare Southerton It has been said that we live in an ‘attention economy’, in which our attention is a commodity and the capacity to hold attention is a key value. Increasingly, technology has been blamed for bringing about this state, for distracting and re-orienting our attention to an ever expandingContinue reading ““Mummy & Daddy…Please look at ME!”: Analysing messages to parents about technology use”

Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment workshop

Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment is a critical feminist arts/research workshop series (and zine!) lead by myself (Ash Watson, postdoc with the Vitalities Lab) and my colleagues Laura Rodriguez Castro (Griffith Uni) and Samantha Trayhurn (WSU). We have run four workshops since late 2018: at Monash University in Melbourne, at Griffith University in Brisbane, at theContinue reading “Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment workshop”

Digitised quarantine: a new form of health dataveillance

Originally posted on This Sociological Life:
Most social analyses of the use of personal health data for dataveillance (watching and monitoring people using information gathered about them) have largely focused on people who engage in voluntary self-tracking to promote or manage their health and fitness. With the outbreak of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), a new form…

The ethics of everyday technologies and the “Amazon Prime Mom” phenomenon

Clare Southerton, Marianne Clark and Vicki Harman Digital technologies and platforms are increasingly important parts of our everyday lives, so much so that it often makes more sense to think about how we come to exist with and through these technologies, rather than how we “use” them. This entanglement between humans and technologies can beContinue reading “The ethics of everyday technologies and the “Amazon Prime Mom” phenomenon”