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Re-thinking Digital Health: Data, Appisation and the (im)possibility of ‘Opting out’
Presented as providing cost-, time- and labour- effective tools for the (self)management of health, health apps are often celebrated as beneficial to all. However, their negative effects – commodification of user data and infringement on privacy – are rarely addressed. This article focuses on one particularly troubling aspect: the difficulty of opting out of data sharing and aggregation during app use or after unsubscribing/uninstalling the app. Working in the context of the new European General Data Protection Regulation and its implementation in the UK health services, our analysis reveals the discrepancy between the information presented to users, and the apps’ actual handling of user data. We also point to the fundamental tension in the digitisation of health, between the neoliberal model where both health and data concerns are viewed as an individual’s responsibility, and the digital-capitalist model, which puts forward, and capitalises on, collective (‘Big’) data. Pulled between the ‘biopolitics of the self’ and the ‘biopolitics of the population’ (concepts coined by Btihaj Ajana), opting out of health datafication therefore cannot be resolved as a matter of individual right alone. The article offers two contributions. Methodologically, we present a toolkit for a multi-level assessment of apps from the perspective of opting out, which can be adapted and used in future research. Conceptually, the article brings together critical digital health scholarship with the perspective of data justice, offering a new approach to health apps, which focuses on opt-out as a legal, social and technical possibility, and as a collective citizen and user right.
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Digital militarism : Israel's occupation in the social media age
Israel's occupation has been transformed in the social media age. Over the last decade, military rule in the Palestinian territories grew more bloody and entrenched. In the same period, Israelis became some of the world's most active social media users. In Israel today, violent politics are interwoven with global networking practices, protocols, and aesthetics. Israeli soldiers carry smartphones into the field of military operations, sharing mobile uploads in real-time. Official Israeli military spokesmen announce wars on Twitter. And civilians encounter state violence first on their newsfeeds and mobile screens.
Across the globe, the ordinary tools of social networking have become indispensable instruments of warfare and violent conflict. This book traces the rise of Israeli digital militarism in this global context—both the reach of social media into Israeli military theaters and the occupation's impact on everyday Israeli social media culture. Today, social media functions as a crucial theater in which the Israeli military occupation is supported and sustained.
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\With a Shade of Disgust\: Affective Politics of Sexuality and Class in Memoirs of the Stalinist Gulag
This article addresses a topic seldom discussed in gulag studies: same-sex relations in the camps. In particular, it deals with affective politics of sexuality and class in gulag memoirs and the role of disgust in the formation of sexual and class boundaries. It approaches disgust as existing between the individual and the social, the subjective and the historical, the internal and the external, and traces the ways the gulag memoirs constitute the disgusting, the disgusted, and the boundary between them. At the center of the article are descriptions of same-sex relations in the Kolyma camps of the 1930s-1950s by Evgenia Ginzburg and Varlam Shalamov. Based on a critical reading of these and other memoirs, Adi Kuntsman reveals how same-sex relations among the common criminals are constructed by the memoirists as disgusting because they go against gender norms and against class perceptions of sexual morality. Kuntsman shows how these perceptions of the appropriate, embedded within the habitus of the intelligentsia, are transformed in the memoirs into the universal category of humanness, locating the common criminals, and, by association, anyone who engages in same-sex relations, beyond the bounds of humanity.
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Webs of hate in diasporic cyberspaces: the Gaza War in the Russian-language blogosphere
This article looks at ways in which a military conflict can produce circuits of hatred in online social spaces. Ethnographically, the article is based on the analysis of selected discussions of Israeli warfare in Gaza in 2008 and 2009 as they took place in the Russian-language networked blogosphere. Bringing together Sara Ahmed's notion of affective economies, Avtar Brah's concept of 'diaspora space', Judith Butler's idea of 'frames of war' and Eyal Weizman's notion of 'elastic frontiers', the author addresses the disorienting similarity between anti-Jewish and anti-Arab hatred as it emerged in discussions of the conflict. The article examines online circulation of hatred as an integral part of cyber-diasporic connections and ruptures, on the one hand, and of digital circulation of affect, on the other.
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Israelis And Iranians, Get a Room!
The \"Israel Loves Iran\" and \"Iran Loves Israel\" Facebook campaigns came about in March 2012 as a means to counter the pro-military rhetoric emanating from both the Israeli and Iranian governments. The campaign has generated much fanfare both on social media groups and traditional media ranging from the Guardian, Ha'aretz, New Yorker Magazine, and Tehran Bureau PBS, as well as many other local newspapers in many languages. Most excitedly welcomed the initiative. Some noted the power of the \"love\" message to travel across religious and political divide; others congratulated the Internet for bringing people together, echoing the celebratory tone of the \"Facebook revolutions\" narrative so prevalent during the \"Arab Spring.\" Since the beginning of the love campaign the memes have mushroomed across the Internet and continue to emerge in response to various political events. Adapted from the source document.
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