[ecrea] Rethinking digital health: experience, ethics, justice

CFP: Rethinking digital health: experience, ethics, justice. A one day 
workshop for postgraduate students and early career researchers. 14 June 
2017 https://sites.google.com/view/rethinkingdigitalhealth/home   The 
Shed, Manchester Metropolitan University
Organisers: EJ Gonzalez-Polledo (Sheffield University), Adi Kuntsman 
(Manchester Metropolitan University), Esperanza Miyake (Manchester 
Metropolitan University)
 In the recent years, with the increasing use of tele-communication, 
mobile devices, smartphone apps and self-tracking devices for medical 
purposes, ‘digital health’ has emerged as a field of interest for 
researchers in the social sciences and the humanities. At the centre of 
this small but rapidly growing area of interdisciplinary investigation 
are studies of websites and platforms for medical care providers and 
patients’ self-help forums; conceptual explorations of topics such as 
‘digital embodiment’ or the ‘quantified self’; as well as explorations 
of digital health from the point of view of big data. However, these 
approaches often overlook issues relating to under- or mis- represented 
groups in ‘digital’ economies, and often celebrate, rather than 
critically interrogate, the development of digital health itself. This 
workshop aims to challenge some of the unquestioned assumptions that 
guide researchers and practitioners of digital health alike. We ask 
instead: How might a focus on experience, ethics and justice contribute 
to critical digital health studies?
 In this one-day workshop we invite submissions from postgraduate 
students and early career researchers in social sciences, social care, 
humanities and the arts, whose work deals with digital health. Our aim 
is to collectively raise questions that have not yet made their ways to 
the field of digital health. Suggested topics include:

- Overt and covert exclusions in digital health practices
- Marginalised and disenfranchised communities and digital health
- Race, racism and digital health
- Digitisation, health care and disability justice
- Ethics and politics of bio data/big data

In addition to presenting your own work, you will have the opportunity 
to discuss relations between digital media, research methods and 
critical health research in the masterclass ‘Chronic Media Worlds – 
Social media, epistemic justice and critical health politics’; and take 
part in an interactive workshop on ‘Opting out? Digital health and 
digital disengagement’.
 Submission guidelines: please send a 300 word abstract and a short bio 
to (rethinkingdigitalhealth /at/ gmail.com) by 15 April 2017.
Funding: a small number of bursaries is available to cover train travel 
within the UK (second class only. Please indicate on your submission if 
you would like to be considered for the travel bursary).
 All applicants will be informed of the outcome by 15 May. For further 
information on programme and registration, please check our website 
https://sites.google.com/view/rethinkingdigitalhealth/home  ​


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