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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…

Our 2019 Annual Report has now been published! You can download a copy from the link below. The report lists all our publications and activities from the last year alongside images of some of the highlights of the year.

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”

VITALITIES LAB NEWSLETTER Number 6, 6 November 2019 The Vitalities Lab is led by SHARP Professor Deborah Lupton, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. Team members are Dr Ashleigh Watson, Dr Clare Southerton and Dr Marianne Clark. Further details here. New team member The VLab welcomes a new teamContinue reading “Vitalities Lab Newsletter Number 6”

VITALITIES LAB NEWSLETTER Number 5, 11 September 2019 The Vitalities Lab is led by SHARP Professor Deborah Lupton, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. Team members are Dr Ashleigh Watson and Dr Clare Southerton. Further details here. New publications Maslen, S. and Lupton, D. (2019) ‘Keeping it real’: women’sContinue reading “Vitalities Lab Newsletter Number 5”

VITALITIES LAB NEWSLETTER Number 4, 2 August 2019 The Vitalities Lab is led by SHARP Professor Deborah Lupton, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. Further details here. New Lab members In July, the Vitalities Lab welcomed two new postdoctoral fellows: Dr Ashleigh Watson (left) and Dr Clare Southerton. AshleighContinue reading “Vitalities Lab Newsletter Number 4”

VITALITIES LAB NEWSLETTER Number 3, 25 June 2019 The Vitalities Lab is led by SHARP Professor Deborah Lupton, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. Further details here. New Publications Lupton, D. (2019) ‘I’d like to think you could trust the government, but I don’t really think we can’: AustralianContinue reading “Vitalities Lab Newsletter Number 3”