Denne artikel undersøger politiske og teoretiske muligheder for at udvikle en hybrid teknologifor... more Denne artikel undersøger politiske og teoretiske muligheder for at udvikle en hybrid teknologiforståelsesfaglighed, hvilket vil sige en faglighed, der ikke baserer sig på et modsætningsforhold mellem mennesker og teknologier, subjekter og objekter eller kulturer og naturer, men derimod omfavner disse fænomener som sammenblandede og hybride. Artiklen indleder med at sammenfatte forskning i hybriditet fra Science and Technology studies (STS) med særlig fokus på Bruno Latours filosofi og begrebssæt i værket Vi har aldrig været moderne. Herefter analyseres forholdet mellem mennesker og teknologier i det retningsgivende politiske arbejde omkring teknologiforståelse for at identificere muligheder for hybrid teknologiforståelse. Og endelig diskuterer artiklen hvordan STS-begreberne om netværk, translation, matters of concern og performativitet kan informere en videreudvikling af de eksisterende kompetenceområder fra forsøgsfaget til i højere grad at omfavne teknologier, mennesker og samfun...
In this paper, we propose a cosmopolitical approach to, and understanding of, data, based on the... more In this paper, we propose a cosmopolitical approach to, and understanding of, data, based on the work of Isabelle Stengers. This entails appreciating data as constituted through multiple actors and actions, and, accordingly, as something capable of producing unanticipated, surprising consequences. Cosmopolitics helps us think about data, and datafication, as actors in a more-than-human world in ways that transgress a common and widespread perception of data as either neutral, objective and representational or as socially constructed, perspectivist and endowed with human politics. The argument is thus that data and datafication change practices and can bring forth novel layers and qualities of those practices. We explore data through a cosmopolitical approach using two empirical examples generated during 2013-2017, where the authors carried out ethnographic fieldwork in a project on governing and managing healthcare data. We conclude by proposing the term cosmo-data-politics and di...
All of the contributions to this special issue are occupied with how to engage data otherwise. Th... more All of the contributions to this special issue are occupied with how to engage data otherwise. This otherwise indexes the rich variety of approaches to data beyond what we are currently witnessing. Whether through the development of politically and ethically relevant forms of data experiments, or the construction of alternative visions of the much-critiqued data infrastructures of powerful platform providers, all the articles reflect upon how we - as scholars and citizens - can live and work with data in ways amenable to diverse, critical, and ethical forms of social existence. This introduction intervenes in this debate in its own particular way, principally by considering what it means to characterise the contemporary as a data moment. The term data moment, we argue, works as a conceptual device calling for more ethical-political engagement with data practices. At the same time, it also retains a temporal inflection. Moments, we claim, are not sequential steps in a linear process,...
From the introduction: This special issue is dedicated to the exploration of experiments and expe... more From the introduction: This special issue is dedicated to the exploration of experiments and experimentation. It follows a PhD. course entitled “Exploring and performing experiments” that we organized at Department of Digital Design and Information Studies in spring 2019. The course was attended by 12 PhD fellows, and during the course we and the participants decided to produce a special issue based on the participants’ PhD research projects. The literature for the course included a variety of texts and research articles focusing on experiments mainly from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The readings included the work of Ian Hacking, Andy Pickering, Bruno Latour, Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Isabelle Stengers, Shirley Strum and Brian Eno among others. In the call for papers for this issue authors were asked to draw on the literature in the field of STS in order to explore the role of experiments and experimentation in their own projects, and to consider their...
From the introduction: The notion of society provided by the French philosopher Gabriel Tarde cha... more From the introduction: The notion of society provided by the French philosopher Gabriel Tarde challenges the idea that society - or rather societies - are exclusively human. Rather, societies are all around, above, below, besides and inside of the human and on a scale ranging from the minuscule to the interstellar, arguably. Such a definition of society is fascinating, since taken for granted notions of society and the social that implicitly rely on society as being exclusively human, become in return destabilized. We are invited to think, study and act the social and society differently. This special issue constitutes an attempt at such an invitation.
This article presents a scoping review of the existing research on the use of digital data in soc... more This article presents a scoping review of the existing research on the use of digital data in social work. This review focuses on research that includes empirical investigations of digital data on citizens in social work practices. The purpose of this review is to map the emerging field of research and contribute knowledge of the role of digital data on citizens in social work. This review includes twenty-eight articles published between 2013 and 2020, and concludes that data pervade almost every aspect of social work and that there is a variety of research on the use of data in social work. However, detailed analyses of data that describe and conceptualise the production, circulation and utilisation of data are few. In consequence, this article introduces and discusses concepts from other data-laden fields of research, and calls for further research that addresses the challenges presented by digital data used in social work.
DASTS is the primary academic association for STS in Denmark. Its purpose is to develop the quali... more DASTS is the primary academic association for STS in Denmark. Its purpose is to develop the quality and breadth of STS research within Denmark, while generating and developing national and international collaboration.
Estrategias pedagógicas en la enseñanza de prácticas saludables en la atención integrada a las en... more Estrategias pedagógicas en la enseñanza de prácticas saludables en la atención integrada a las enfermedades prevalentes de la infancia (AIEPI) a padres de familia y cuidadores en los hogares infantiles comunitarios
Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 2016
Denne artikel viser, hvordan diagnoser indgår som centrale komponenter i en styrings-infrastruktu... more Denne artikel viser, hvordan diagnoser indgår som centrale komponenter i en styrings-infrastruktur på sundhedsområdet. Herved opnås en forståelse af diagnoser som ’styrings-hybrider’, som på en og samme tid betegner patienters lidelser og deres regnskabsmæssige værdi i systemer af Diagnose-Relaterede Grupper (DRG). DRG er et internationalt udbredt system til at knytte patienter og deres behandlingsomkostninger sammen i faste kategorier med henblik på at måle hospitalers produktivitet. Med afsæt i Science-Technology-Studies (STS)-feltet analyserer artiklen, hvorledes diagnoser overskrider deres kliniske funktioner, og transformeres til DRG i en styrings-infrastruktur, der forbinder stat, regioner og hospitalsafdelinger. Formålet er at bidrage til en forståelse af diagnosers rolle som infrastrukturerende og således som både dele af en infrastruktur og som performative elementer med væsentlige samfundsmæssige betydninger og funktioner. Artiklen præsenterer analyser af (i) hvorledes dia...
Privacy is a major concern when new technologies are introduced between public authorities and pr... more Privacy is a major concern when new technologies are introduced between public authorities and private citizens. What is meant by privacy, however, is often unclear and contested. Accordingly, this article utilises grounded theory to study privacy empirically in the research and design project Teledialogue aimed at introducing new ways for public case managers and placed children to communicate through IT. The resulting argument is that privacy can be understood as an encounter, that is, as something that arises between implicated actors and entails some degree of friction and negotiation. An argument which is further qualified through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. The article opens with a review of privacy literature before continuing to present privacy as an encounter with five different foci: what technologies bring into the encounter; who is related to privacy by implication; what is entailed by the spaces of Teledialogue; how privacy relates to projected futures; and how privacy is also an encounter between authority and care. In the end, it is discussed how privacy conceptualised as an encounter is not already there surrounding people or places but rather has to be traced in the specific and situated relations between implicated actors, giving rise to different normative concerns in each case.
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2012
Chronic diseases pose a major challenge to contemporary western healthcare systems, and consequen... more Chronic diseases pose a major challenge to contemporary western healthcare systems, and consequently there are numerous initiatives designed to meet these challenges. Patient empowerment is considered to be extremely important in chronic disease management. But what does it mean to become an 'active patient', managing a condition? This article argues that people are always active in shaping their agency and the agency of numerous others, and that we need to attend to these processes of configuration in order to better understand and conceptualize the problem of chronic disease management. This article analyses the daily practices of people with Type 2 Diabetes, with the use of what is described as the 'sociology of attachment' in the field of science and technology studies. The implications of seeing and analysing chronic conditions in this manner are that determinist understandings of chronic conditions are challenged. Accordingly, an experimental and constructive attitude towards the production and assembling of the chronically ill body is enabled. Such an attitude holds that relations with multiple other bodies and entities, such as technologies, the disease, medication and so on continuously and relentlessly affect how the condition unfolds and consequently, the room for interventional strategies and transformation of the chronically ill body is enlarged.
... I KRONIKERBEHANDLING til pr Delstudie til projektet AUGUST 2010 Henriette Langstrup Peter Dan... more ... I KRONIKERBEHANDLING til pr Delstudie til projektet AUGUST 2010 Henriette Langstrup Peter Danholt Keld Bødker Karen Dam Nielsen ... Delstudie til CITH-projektet Co-constructing IT and Healthcare Henriette Langstrup Peter Danholt Keld Bødker Karen Dam Nielsen ...
The discourses and practices of genetics surround us today as never before, and have become a maj... more The discourses and practices of genetics surround us today as never before, and have become a major component of our ideas of personhood and identity. In contemporary biomedicine, many illnesses and pathologies have been reorganized along a genetic axis. The growing use of predictive genetic diagnostics and genome analysis–now offered by private companies directly to the public–and the new dimension of “genetic risk” they introduce, have contributed to the emergence of a new “genetically responsible subject”–a ...
Healthcare systems in Western countries are undergoing profound changes in the organisation of se... more Healthcare systems in Western countries are undergoing profound changes in the organisation of services and patient treatment. A growing share of the aging population and an increase in chronic diseases are accompanied by a decrease of the workforce in the healthcare sector and a steady increase in spending. These challenging tendencies have spawned the need for substantial changes in the organisation of healthcare. Patient involvement and participation in treatment together with new information and ...
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2010
This paper discusses two approaches to "the sociotechnical", one coming from the Tavist... more This paper discusses two approaches to "the sociotechnical", one coming from the Tavistock tradition and the other from actor network theory. These two differ in important ways and from the latter it follows that what patient safety means must be scrutinized and unpacked. The paper thus rudimentarily discusses central contributions to the problematization of patient safety. Last, it is argued that patient safety does not exist apart from the sociotechnical practices that seek to accomplish it, but is constructed in and through them, which is why it is pertinent to reflect on how those practices constructs what comes to qualify as patient safety.
Denne artikel undersøger politiske og teoretiske muligheder for at udvikle en hybrid teknologifor... more Denne artikel undersøger politiske og teoretiske muligheder for at udvikle en hybrid teknologiforståelsesfaglighed, hvilket vil sige en faglighed, der ikke baserer sig på et modsætningsforhold mellem mennesker og teknologier, subjekter og objekter eller kulturer og naturer, men derimod omfavner disse fænomener som sammenblandede og hybride. Artiklen indleder med at sammenfatte forskning i hybriditet fra Science and Technology studies (STS) med særlig fokus på Bruno Latours filosofi og begrebssæt i værket Vi har aldrig været moderne. Herefter analyseres forholdet mellem mennesker og teknologier i det retningsgivende politiske arbejde omkring teknologiforståelse for at identificere muligheder for hybrid teknologiforståelse. Og endelig diskuterer artiklen hvordan STS-begreberne om netværk, translation, matters of concern og performativitet kan informere en videreudvikling af de eksisterende kompetenceområder fra forsøgsfaget til i højere grad at omfavne teknologier, mennesker og samfun...
In this paper, we propose a cosmopolitical approach to, and understanding of, data, based on the... more In this paper, we propose a cosmopolitical approach to, and understanding of, data, based on the work of Isabelle Stengers. This entails appreciating data as constituted through multiple actors and actions, and, accordingly, as something capable of producing unanticipated, surprising consequences. Cosmopolitics helps us think about data, and datafication, as actors in a more-than-human world in ways that transgress a common and widespread perception of data as either neutral, objective and representational or as socially constructed, perspectivist and endowed with human politics. The argument is thus that data and datafication change practices and can bring forth novel layers and qualities of those practices. We explore data through a cosmopolitical approach using two empirical examples generated during 2013-2017, where the authors carried out ethnographic fieldwork in a project on governing and managing healthcare data. We conclude by proposing the term cosmo-data-politics and di...
All of the contributions to this special issue are occupied with how to engage data otherwise. Th... more All of the contributions to this special issue are occupied with how to engage data otherwise. This otherwise indexes the rich variety of approaches to data beyond what we are currently witnessing. Whether through the development of politically and ethically relevant forms of data experiments, or the construction of alternative visions of the much-critiqued data infrastructures of powerful platform providers, all the articles reflect upon how we - as scholars and citizens - can live and work with data in ways amenable to diverse, critical, and ethical forms of social existence. This introduction intervenes in this debate in its own particular way, principally by considering what it means to characterise the contemporary as a data moment. The term data moment, we argue, works as a conceptual device calling for more ethical-political engagement with data practices. At the same time, it also retains a temporal inflection. Moments, we claim, are not sequential steps in a linear process,...
From the introduction: This special issue is dedicated to the exploration of experiments and expe... more From the introduction: This special issue is dedicated to the exploration of experiments and experimentation. It follows a PhD. course entitled “Exploring and performing experiments” that we organized at Department of Digital Design and Information Studies in spring 2019. The course was attended by 12 PhD fellows, and during the course we and the participants decided to produce a special issue based on the participants’ PhD research projects. The literature for the course included a variety of texts and research articles focusing on experiments mainly from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The readings included the work of Ian Hacking, Andy Pickering, Bruno Latour, Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Isabelle Stengers, Shirley Strum and Brian Eno among others. In the call for papers for this issue authors were asked to draw on the literature in the field of STS in order to explore the role of experiments and experimentation in their own projects, and to consider their...
From the introduction: The notion of society provided by the French philosopher Gabriel Tarde cha... more From the introduction: The notion of society provided by the French philosopher Gabriel Tarde challenges the idea that society - or rather societies - are exclusively human. Rather, societies are all around, above, below, besides and inside of the human and on a scale ranging from the minuscule to the interstellar, arguably. Such a definition of society is fascinating, since taken for granted notions of society and the social that implicitly rely on society as being exclusively human, become in return destabilized. We are invited to think, study and act the social and society differently. This special issue constitutes an attempt at such an invitation.
This article presents a scoping review of the existing research on the use of digital data in soc... more This article presents a scoping review of the existing research on the use of digital data in social work. This review focuses on research that includes empirical investigations of digital data on citizens in social work practices. The purpose of this review is to map the emerging field of research and contribute knowledge of the role of digital data on citizens in social work. This review includes twenty-eight articles published between 2013 and 2020, and concludes that data pervade almost every aspect of social work and that there is a variety of research on the use of data in social work. However, detailed analyses of data that describe and conceptualise the production, circulation and utilisation of data are few. In consequence, this article introduces and discusses concepts from other data-laden fields of research, and calls for further research that addresses the challenges presented by digital data used in social work.
DASTS is the primary academic association for STS in Denmark. Its purpose is to develop the quali... more DASTS is the primary academic association for STS in Denmark. Its purpose is to develop the quality and breadth of STS research within Denmark, while generating and developing national and international collaboration.
Estrategias pedagógicas en la enseñanza de prácticas saludables en la atención integrada a las en... more Estrategias pedagógicas en la enseñanza de prácticas saludables en la atención integrada a las enfermedades prevalentes de la infancia (AIEPI) a padres de familia y cuidadores en los hogares infantiles comunitarios
Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 2016
Denne artikel viser, hvordan diagnoser indgår som centrale komponenter i en styrings-infrastruktu... more Denne artikel viser, hvordan diagnoser indgår som centrale komponenter i en styrings-infrastruktur på sundhedsområdet. Herved opnås en forståelse af diagnoser som ’styrings-hybrider’, som på en og samme tid betegner patienters lidelser og deres regnskabsmæssige værdi i systemer af Diagnose-Relaterede Grupper (DRG). DRG er et internationalt udbredt system til at knytte patienter og deres behandlingsomkostninger sammen i faste kategorier med henblik på at måle hospitalers produktivitet. Med afsæt i Science-Technology-Studies (STS)-feltet analyserer artiklen, hvorledes diagnoser overskrider deres kliniske funktioner, og transformeres til DRG i en styrings-infrastruktur, der forbinder stat, regioner og hospitalsafdelinger. Formålet er at bidrage til en forståelse af diagnosers rolle som infrastrukturerende og således som både dele af en infrastruktur og som performative elementer med væsentlige samfundsmæssige betydninger og funktioner. Artiklen præsenterer analyser af (i) hvorledes dia...
Privacy is a major concern when new technologies are introduced between public authorities and pr... more Privacy is a major concern when new technologies are introduced between public authorities and private citizens. What is meant by privacy, however, is often unclear and contested. Accordingly, this article utilises grounded theory to study privacy empirically in the research and design project Teledialogue aimed at introducing new ways for public case managers and placed children to communicate through IT. The resulting argument is that privacy can be understood as an encounter, that is, as something that arises between implicated actors and entails some degree of friction and negotiation. An argument which is further qualified through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. The article opens with a review of privacy literature before continuing to present privacy as an encounter with five different foci: what technologies bring into the encounter; who is related to privacy by implication; what is entailed by the spaces of Teledialogue; how privacy relates to projected futures; and how privacy is also an encounter between authority and care. In the end, it is discussed how privacy conceptualised as an encounter is not already there surrounding people or places but rather has to be traced in the specific and situated relations between implicated actors, giving rise to different normative concerns in each case.
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2012
Chronic diseases pose a major challenge to contemporary western healthcare systems, and consequen... more Chronic diseases pose a major challenge to contemporary western healthcare systems, and consequently there are numerous initiatives designed to meet these challenges. Patient empowerment is considered to be extremely important in chronic disease management. But what does it mean to become an 'active patient', managing a condition? This article argues that people are always active in shaping their agency and the agency of numerous others, and that we need to attend to these processes of configuration in order to better understand and conceptualize the problem of chronic disease management. This article analyses the daily practices of people with Type 2 Diabetes, with the use of what is described as the 'sociology of attachment' in the field of science and technology studies. The implications of seeing and analysing chronic conditions in this manner are that determinist understandings of chronic conditions are challenged. Accordingly, an experimental and constructive attitude towards the production and assembling of the chronically ill body is enabled. Such an attitude holds that relations with multiple other bodies and entities, such as technologies, the disease, medication and so on continuously and relentlessly affect how the condition unfolds and consequently, the room for interventional strategies and transformation of the chronically ill body is enlarged.
... I KRONIKERBEHANDLING til pr Delstudie til projektet AUGUST 2010 Henriette Langstrup Peter Dan... more ... I KRONIKERBEHANDLING til pr Delstudie til projektet AUGUST 2010 Henriette Langstrup Peter Danholt Keld Bødker Karen Dam Nielsen ... Delstudie til CITH-projektet Co-constructing IT and Healthcare Henriette Langstrup Peter Danholt Keld Bødker Karen Dam Nielsen ...
The discourses and practices of genetics surround us today as never before, and have become a maj... more The discourses and practices of genetics surround us today as never before, and have become a major component of our ideas of personhood and identity. In contemporary biomedicine, many illnesses and pathologies have been reorganized along a genetic axis. The growing use of predictive genetic diagnostics and genome analysis–now offered by private companies directly to the public–and the new dimension of “genetic risk” they introduce, have contributed to the emergence of a new “genetically responsible subject”–a ...
Healthcare systems in Western countries are undergoing profound changes in the organisation of se... more Healthcare systems in Western countries are undergoing profound changes in the organisation of services and patient treatment. A growing share of the aging population and an increase in chronic diseases are accompanied by a decrease of the workforce in the healthcare sector and a steady increase in spending. These challenging tendencies have spawned the need for substantial changes in the organisation of healthcare. Patient involvement and participation in treatment together with new information and ...
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2010
This paper discusses two approaches to "the sociotechnical", one coming from the Tavist... more This paper discusses two approaches to "the sociotechnical", one coming from the Tavistock tradition and the other from actor network theory. These two differ in important ways and from the latter it follows that what patient safety means must be scrutinized and unpacked. The paper thus rudimentarily discusses central contributions to the problematization of patient safety. Last, it is argued that patient safety does not exist apart from the sociotechnical practices that seek to accomplish it, but is constructed in and through them, which is why it is pertinent to reflect on how those practices constructs what comes to qualify as patient safety.
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