Over the past decade, data-intensive logics and practices have come to affect domains of
contemporary life ranging from marketing and policy making to entertainment and education; …

The potential for big data analytics to improve cardiovascular quality of care and patient
outcomes is tremendous. However, the application of big data in health care is at a nascent …

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and
public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response …

While big data offer exciting opportunities to address questions about social behavior,
studies must not abandon traditionally important considerations of social science research …

How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by
deploying more data, not less—and why we should. With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and …

Digital health technologies are playing an increasingly important role in healthcare, health
education and voluntary self-surveillance, self-quantification and self-care practices. This …

This article discusses methodological challenges of using big data that rely on specific sites
and services as their sampling frames, focusing on social network sites in particular. It draws …

Digital epidemiology, also referred to as digital disease detection (DDD), is motivated by the
same objectives as traditional epidemiology. However, DDD focuses on electronic data …

More than 100,000 mobile phone software applications ('apps') have been designed for the
dissemination of health and medical information and healthcare and public health initiatives …

This essential text provides a readable yet sophisticated overview of the basic concepts of
information technologies as they apply in healthcare. Spanning areas as diverse as the …