On Thursday 15 August, the session ‘Care and technologies in a digitalised society’ will take place from 9.00 until 14.00. The session is a part of the 31st Nordic Sociological Association conference (NSA2024), to be held in Norrköping, Sweden, between 14-16 August 2024.
Please find the session programme below.
Session chair(s): Barbara Fersch, Marjo Kolehmainen, Doris Lydahl
15 August (Thu) | 9:00 – 14:00 | TP51
9:00 – 9:20 With friends like these: Clashing vulnerabilities in facilitating meaningful activities through digital means for adults with intellectual disability
Richard Gäddman Johansson, Kristina Engwall
9:20 – 9:40 Unleashing Collaboration, Taming Technology – Exploring the collaborative dynamics of welfare technology in eldercare practice
Doris Lydahl
9:40 – 10:00 Vibrant Screens: Remote therapy and counselling through the lens of digital materiality
Marjo Kolehmainen
10:00 – 10:20 Municipal healthcare professionals’ experiences as end-users in the digital-transformed healthcare
Gloria Ziglioli
10:40 – 11:00 Deception as digital emotional labor: The use of welfare technology in dementia care
David Redmalm, Clara Iversen, Marcus Persson, Elin Thunman
11:00 – 11:20 Using data donation from smart home technologies to understand the sociodigital futures of caring relationships
Nicola Horsley
11:20 – 11:40 Care of the working self through self-quantification and the ruptures of neoliberal rationality
Venla Okkonen
11:40 – 12:00 Facilitating rural eHealth – what’s the problem?
Barbara Fersch
13:00 – 13:20 Why trust when you can control? : Temporal governing and labour intensification in home care
Helena Håkansson
13:20 – 13:40 Positionality, digital society and the global south. A feminist ethic approach for older women
Thando Nkohla-Ramunenyiwa
13:40 – 14:00 Coordinating between worlds in the last phase of life
Estella Posthuma
More information about the conference: https://liu.se/en/research/nsa2024