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Digital Health/Digital Capitalism One Day Conference CfP 4th July 2016

How has the digital changed the ways in which bodies and health are understood, managed and experienced?

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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...

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Are digital data co-ops an alternative to the commercialisation of health?

  Would you put your health data into a coop? Later this year a Swiss initiative, MiData, will be launching a “health data cooperative”. This will be an online repository for all kinds of health data...

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Podcast Episode 6: Liz McFall, health insurance and big data

In the sixth episode in the series I spoke to Liz McFall from the Open University. Liz discusses some of her work on the history of insurance and how early industrial life insurance worked through...

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The Political Economy of Fake News

When the discussion of “fake news” and “alternative facts” was at its height a few months ago I found it interesting but largely assumed it was mostly a function of a political “will to confuse”....

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Quantified Self and Digital Health

In this post I will discuss the impact of the collection and analysis of “big data”; specifically health data. Here we will see data as a technology in itself and consider the forms of generating these...

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Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 16: Kylie Jarrett on the digital housewife,...

In this episode of the Digital Sociology Podcast I am talking to Kylie Jarrett who is a lecturer in the Department of Media Studies at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. She writes and...

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Episode 18: Frank Pasquale, big data, algorithms and discrimination in the...

In this episode I am speaking to Frank Pasquale who is Professor of Law at the University of Maryland. We talk about his work which has addressed the impact of big data and algorithmic processing on...

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Digital Societies: Huawei, 5G and the political economy of networks in...

For the past couple of years I have taught an undergraduate module called “Digital Societies” and this time round I am going to try to write some blog posts alongside it. These are not summaries of...

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