Evaluative practices and performance indicators for digital platforms

Evaluative practices and performance indicators for digital platforms
Photo by Erik Lucatero on Unsplash By Christos Begkos and Katerina Antonopoulou Rankings, ratings and reviews permeate digital platforms. They frame what we buy, where we eat, how we travel, how we consume. Their function is simple yet powerful. They streamline complex structures, quantify qualitative traits, place things in hierarchical orders and popularise their subject ...

The agential potential of digital technology in health: emerging forms of citizenship and activism in digital health

The agential potential of digital technology in health: emerging forms of citizenship and activism in digital health
Thanks to Artur Łuczka for sharing their work on Unsplash. By Dimitra Petrakaki The potential of technology to open up forms of agency has been contemplated for decades by social scientists. In the context of healthcare, this question becomes even more prominent following years of policy discourse around the digitalisation of healthcare and the set of rights ...