Benjamin Nothwehr
Biographic Data
| ID | 9683369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Nothwehr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Nothwehr |
| SIGNATURE | NOTHWEHR B |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Shitty Graphs”
Diabetes is a self-quantified chronic disease, where measuring blood sugars is the very grounds for understanding and surviving the condition. This article analyzes how people with type 1 diabetes who use continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) share their CGM data visualizations on social media platforms and develop data intimacies with other diabetics around the visual vernaculars of CGM graphs: the “flat line” ideal and the “shitty graph.” CGM grap…
Enacting the Politics of Care With Chronic and Crip Technologies
Drawing from feminist and queer technoscience studies, this panel examines the constitutive entanglements of bodies, technologies and systems in Type 1 diabetic continuous glucose monitoring and the intimate feeling of their numbers and data visualization; in the selfie politics of mastectomies on Instagram and the platform vernaculars people use to make the grief of breast cancer’s gendered loss representable; in the ways Bay Area Deaf AIDS acti…
Transmitting Insulin
In this article, we examine how insulin pens and pumps – two major devices for delivering insulin, the anabolic hormone used to treat Type 1 diabetes – are designed to conceal and fashion insulin delivery around their appearance as key communication technologies. Insulin pens and insulin pumps transform the aesthetics of insulin delivery away from the medicalized appearance of syringes toward that of beautiful technological artifacts. They both h…
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Transmitting Insulin
In this article, we examine how insulin pens and pumps – two major devices for delivering insulin, the anabolic hormone used to treat Type 1 diabetes – are designed to conceal and fashion insulin delivery around their appearance as key communication technologies. Insulin pens and insulin pumps transform the aesthetics of insulin delivery away from the medicalized appearance of syringes toward that of beautiful technological artifacts. They both h…
Enacting the Politics of Care With Chronic and Crip Technologies
Drawing from feminist and queer technoscience studies, this panel examines the constitutive entanglements of bodies, technologies and systems in Type 1 diabetic continuous glucose monitoring and the intimate feeling of their numbers and data visualization; in the selfie politics of mastectomies on Instagram and the platform vernaculars people use to make the grief of breast cancer’s gendered loss representable; in the ways Bay Area Deaf AIDS acti…
“Shitty Graphs”
Diabetes is a self-quantified chronic disease, where measuring blood sugars is the very grounds for understanding and surviving the condition. This article analyzes how people with type 1 diabetes who use continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) share their CGM data visualizations on social media platforms and develop data intimacies with other diabetics around the visual vernaculars of CGM graphs: the “flat line” ideal and the “shitty graph.” CGM grap…
Computer Science (2 works) · Diabetes mellitus (2 works) · Endocrinology (2 works) · Feeling (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Type 1 diabetes (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)