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View article: We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research Open
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for qualitative research. We hold the pos…
Atmospheric Wellbeing: Sensing the More-Than-Human Dynamics of Air Open
Clean air is vital to bodily, social, and planetary wellbeing. This article develops the concept of ‘atmospheric wellbeing’ as a framework for investigating the more-than-human dynamics of air through its affective and sensory qualities. E…
Towards a digital planetary health perspective: generative AI and the digital determinants of health Open
The digital determinants of health have recently attracted attention in the medical and public health literature, but the environmental aspects of these determinants have rarely been considered. This Perspectives article calls for applying…
Immune logics, immune selves and immunoprivilege in the COVID era: Perspectives from marginalised social groups Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a fraught immunopolitics in which the health and interests of powerful social groups have been privileged, supported and valued while members of disadvantaged groups have been positioned as bot…
Teletherapy Matters – Mental health and materialities of care in domestic more-than-digital assemblages Open
Teletherapy involves the coming together of humans and nonhuman agents to accomplish a therapeutic encounter. This article presents novel insights into the ways in which the absence or presence of different creatures, spaces and objects, b…
‘Most People with Long COVID Are Their Own Doctors’: Self-Tracking and Online Patient Groups as Pathways to Challenging Epistemic Injustice Open
This article focuses on the struggles of people with Long COVID to obtain diagnoses and treatment in the face of medical dismissal and ignorance. Drawing on interviews with people with Long COVID who have engaged in self-tracking activitie…
Immunities in the COVID age: a sociomaterial and more-than-human perspective Open
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the topic of human immunity has received intense attention in the scientific literature and public forums: often in contested, highly politicised and confusing ways. A plethora of terms involvin…
COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities Open
Since the advent of the COVID‐19 pandemic, several ways of understanding time have emerged: what we may call ‘COVID time’. Based on 40 qualitative online interviews in 2022 with Australians living across the continent, this article examine…
View article: Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review
Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review Open
SUMMARY This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental impacts—of masks and masking. Our synthesis of e…
‘It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information Open
Human bodies and health states are becoming increasingly digitised and datafied through the use of digital technologies such as mobile and wearable devices, apps and software, electronic medical records and social media platforms. The ways…
Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty Open
The COVID-19 crisis is still affecting millions of people worldwide. However, government and mass media attention to the continuing loss of life, severe illness and prolonged effects of COVID-19 has subsided, rendering the suffering of tho…
Sociocultural dimensions of health: contributions to studies on risk, digital sociology, and disinformation Open
Deborah Lupton is a renowned academic whose research has made significant contributions to the field of digital sociology and the sociocultural dimensions of medicine and public health. In an interview with Reciis, Lupton discusses one of …
Sensory Engagements With Lively Data Open
The digitization of human bodies and health states should take account of the sensory, embodied, and material forms that health data take: marks on the body, feelings, sounds, scents, details relayed in conversations or gauged from practic…
More-than-Human Wellbeing Open
Introduction The concept of ‘wellbeing’ is typically thought of in human-centric ways, referring to the affective feelings and bodily sensations that people may have which inform their sense of health, safety, and connection. However, as o…
Bubbles, fortresses and rings of steel: risk and socio-spatialities in Australians’ accounts of border controls during the COVID-19 pandemic Open
During the COVID-19 pandemic, several jurisdictions have exerted controls over people’s mobilities as a way of containing viral spread. In Australia, international borders were closed for almost two years and internal borders were periodic…
Australians' experiences of COVID-19 during the early months of the crisis: A qualitative interview study Open
Introduction The COVID-19 crisis has wrought major changes to people's lives across the globe since the beginning of the outbreak in early 2020. The "Australians' Experiences of COVID-19” qualitative descriptive study was established to ex…
Attitudes to COVID-19 Vaccines Among Australians During the Delta Variant Wave: A Qualitative Interview Study Open
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 globally, a range of vaccines has been developed and delivered to reduce viral transmission and prevent COVID cases. This article reports findings from a qualitative research project involving telephone inter…
Health information in creative translation: establishing a collaborative project of research and exhibition making Open
There are numerous ways that researchers can creatively approach social research and translation. This article discusses elements from the first stages of a novel project that centres social research translation in the form of a public exh…
Rethinking digital biopedagogies: How sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students' digital health practices Open
It is widely recognised that while many young people in high-income countries are active users of digital health technologies, their engagement can be short term. In this article, we draw on feminist materialism theory to analyse findings …