Ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies can provide assistance and support to persons
with dementia. They might allow them the possibility of living at home for longer whilst …

Social platforms open important doors to visibility for transgender people, through which
they can pursue key goals such as broader recognition and normalization. However, each …

An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from
supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths. After little more than half a century since its …

This paper discusses the vision, the challenges, possible usage scenarios and
technological building blocks of the “Internet of Things”. In particular, we consider RFID and …

In his book “How Our Days Became Numbered” historian Dan Bouk looks into how life
insurers started to predict people's lives and their relative risk of death at the end of the …

Knitting together contemporary technologies of datafication to reveal a broader, underlying
shift in what counts as knowledge, Technologies of Speculation reframes today's major …

Artificial intelligence is increasingly influencing our daily lives. Algorithms enable objects to
act autonomously, make decisions without the user's consent, and thus threaten the user's …

This article highlights the limitations of the tendency to frame health-and wellbeing-related
digital tools (mHealth technologies) as empowering devices, especially as they play an …

Rising global energy demands, increasing costs and limited natural resources mean that
householders are more conscious about managing their domestic resource consumption …

This study explores paternalism in contemporary data journalism, a hybrid form of journalism
where parts of the engineering culture are blended with the culture of journalism …