Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Şahinol M., Başkavak C. G. (Yürütücü)
Diğer Ülkelerdeki Kamu Kurumları Tarafından Desteklenmiş Proje, 2019 - 2020
E-Health: Digital Self-tracking Practices and Socio-cultural Dimensions in Turkey (VALID-TR)
(Original title: Digitale Vulnerabilität zwischen Inklusion und sozialer Robustheit. Diversitätssensitive und risikoethische Abschätzung digitaler Selbstvermessung)
The project investigates practices and technologies of digital self-tracking (i.e. health devices and apps, e.g. health tracking apps, robotic walking aids, wearables) and how these are embedded in social processes. The focus is on the social, ethical, and cultural dimensions of those health devices. The current trend is characterized by the fact that these applications should motivate users to work independently, preventively, and actively on the positive development of their own health and lifestyle via practices of self-quantification. However, such forms of health self-management and monitoring may entail new forms of discrimination against vulnerable groups, for example people with chronic diseases or children. This research focuses in particular on the different normative frameworks of digital self-tracking in Turkey and the ethical criteria derived from an intercultural perspective. The question of under which circumstances self and voluntarily collected digital data become a social stratifying good and which individual and societal effects are associated with it, is particularly relevant.
Funded by German Federal Ministry of Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit)
Project partner and principle (Germany): Prof. Dr. Stefan Selke, Furtwangen University)