[ecrea] CFP- Rethinking Digital Health

**Deadline extended to 1 May. Limited travel funding available for 
presenters**

CFP: Rethinking digital health: experience, ethics, justice.
A one day workshop for postgraduate students and early career 
researchers. 14 June 2017 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) 1st May 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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