Deborah Lupton
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Ciara (University of Liverpool, UK) Kierans
Boeken van Deborah Lupton
Deborah Lupton
Inger Mewburn
Pat Thomson
The Digital Academic
Academic work, like many other professional occupations, has increasingly become digitised. This book brings together leading scholars who examine the impacts, possibilities, politics and drawbacks of working in the contemporary university, using digital technologies.
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Deborah Lupton
Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine
Self-tracking practices are part of many health and medical domains. The introduction of digital technologies such as smartphones, tablet computers, apps, social media platforms, dedicated patient support sites and wireless devices for medical monitoring has contributed to the expansion of opportunities for people to engage in self-tracking of their bodies and health and illness states.
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Deborah (University of New South Wales, Australia) Lupton
Deborah Lupton
Fat
In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it.
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Deborah (University of Canberra, Australia) Lupton
Deborah Lupton
Digital Sociology
We now live in a digital society. New digital technologies have had a profound influence on everyday life, social relations, government, commerce, the economy and the production and dissemination of knowledge.
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Deborah Lupton
Risk and Sociocultural Theory
This 1999 book presents a variety of exciting perspectives on the perception of risk and the strategies that people adopt to cope with it. Using the framework of recent social and cultural theory, it reflects the fact that risk has become integral to contemporary understandings of selfhood, the body and social relations, and is central to the work of writers such as Douglas, Beck, Giddens and the Foucauldian theorists.
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