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”
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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…
Vitalities Lab 2019 Annual Report
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.
Upcoming workshop: Decolonizing Visual Methods with Displaced and Refugee Youth
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”
Upcoming workshop: Moving Data
Vitalities Lab Newsletter Number 7
6 February 2020 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 academic publications Clark, M. I., & Thorpe, H. (2019). Towards diffractive ways ofContinue reading “Vitalities Lab Newsletter Number 7”
Vitalities Lab Newsletter Number 6
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
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”
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