PhD defence by Frederike Fahse

Precarities of digital uncertainty

Assessment Committee:
Associate professor Mie Seest Dam, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen (Chairperson)
Professor Nete Schwennesen, Roskilde University
Dr Kate Weiner, University of Sheffield

Supervisors:
Professor Henriette Langstrup
Clinical Associate Professor Martin Ballegaard

Department:
Department of Public Health

Graduate Programme:
Medicine, Culture and Society

Place:
Building 1, Room: 1.1.18, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 København K

Email address to gain access to the thesis: ffah@regionsjaelland.dk 
You will either receive a copy of the thesis or be informed where you can read a physical copy.

Short description of the thesis:
This thesis explores the use and development of digital care technologies in epilepsy through an assemblage ethnography conducted in Denmark and Germany. In recent years, technologies for monitoring health at home have become increasingly available to people living with certain chronic conditions. The thesis examines how people with epilepsy and their caregivers navigate an expanding landscape of digital care technologies in the home, characterized by both possibilities and precarities. Introducing the concept of digital uncertainty, it examines the uncertainties that materialize through the introduction of digital care technologies and how they are navigated by people living with chronic conditions, technology designers and patient organizations.