Digital Body Knowledge. Fault Lines of Problematic Popularity in Health Care (C02)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438577023

The project studies the popularization of digital body knowledge in relation to local medical practices and patient groups from the district Siegen-Wittgenstein. It analyses the scope of problematic popularity in health care by way of example and with high empirical resolution. In addition, the project situates these current dynamics within the history of professional and popular body knowledge and connects them with the recent convergence of medical and media technologies in the areas of m-health and e-health.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1472: Transformations of the Popular
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Cornelius Schubert