Francesco Miele
Biographic Data
| ID | 190559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesco Miele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesco |
| FAMILY NAME | Miele |
| SIGNATURE | MIELE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1337-9112 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Algorithmic Choreography: Redefining Human and Non‐Human Relations in Digital Health
This article contributes to the growing debate on algorithms in digital health, which has expanded alongside the integration of algorithmic technologies into diverse healthcare practices and contexts. Although much of the existing literature adopts a deterministic perspective, focusing on the impact of algorithms on society, we propose a different approach. Drawing on the concept of algorithmic choreography, we show how humans and algorithmic tec…
Hybrid intelligence: Understanding how AI reframes risk and uncertainty in dementia care
This article investigates how Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems reshape risk and uncertainty in dementia care by proposing a conceptual shift from technological efficacy to hybrid intelligence. Drawing on empirical research conducted in both residential and home-based care settings in Italy, and based on interviews with professional and informal caregivers, the study explores how AI technologies such as telemonitoring systems and GPS trackers …
Sociotechnical imaginaries and practices of artificial intelligence in healthcare: Revolutionising care or amplifying new risks? A special issue of health, risk & society
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a key feature of healthcare innovation, reshaping how healthcare professionals represent and manage health risks, deliver care, and define patient o
Reframing Algorithms: STS perspectives to Healthcare Automation
On care infrastructures and health practices: How people in health promotion programmes try to change their everyday life
This paper contributes to challenging common behavioural or cognitive explanations for health and wellbeing outcomes, focussing on social practices through which people, with the help of other subjects, try to improve their health conditions. To renew the debate about health promotion, my work is placed at the intersection between the sociology of health and illness and science and technology studies, adopting the concepts of care infrastructures…
The co-production of a workplace health promotion program: Expected benefits, contested boundaries
Workplace health promotion (WHP) are often depicted as an opportunity for pursuing a better and broader well-being condition under the assumption that working environments affect the physical, mental, and social well-being of individuals who spend large proportion of waking hours at work. While most empirical studies provided medical evidence to the effectiveness of WHP programs, scholars question the instrumental purposes of these programs found…
Supportive care for older people with dementia: Socio-organisational implications
For many years, dementia care has been dominated by the standard medical approach, in which dementia is treated mainly with drugs, such as anti-anxiety, antidepressant and anti-psychotic medications. With the aim of seeking effective treatments for patients with dementia, over the last years, several contributions have criticised the pervasive use of drugs for the management of behavioural and physiological symptoms related to dementia, proposing…
Digital technologies and power dynamics in the organization: A conceptual review of remote working and wearable technologies at work
In this article, we examine the kinds of control practices that emerge with the introduction of digital technologies, and how these technologies are employed to shape power within workplaces. We present a comparative conceptual review of work practices by contrasting remote work and the use of workplace wearables. We trace forms of power and control that have been enacted with the adoption of these work‐related technologies and associated practic…
Homemade: Building, mending, and coordinating a care network
On digital intimacy: Redefining Provider-Patient Relationships in Remote Monitoring
Remote monitoring has often been thought to lead to a highly structured and standardised care process. Several studies have stressed that patient-provider communication could be hindered if mediated by technologies, leading to an impoverished relationship. We argue that while remote monitoring leads to a redefinition of the patient-provider relationship, it could also offer the opportunity to develop a more intimate acquaintance not possible via …
Tracking the sociomaterial traces of affect at the crossroads of affect and practice theories
Purpose Affect is relevant for organization studies mainly for its potential to reveal the intensities and forces of everyday organizational experiences that may pass unnoticed or pass in silence because they have been discarded from the orthodoxy of doing research “as usual.” The paper is constructed around two questions: what does affect “do” in a situated practice, and what does the study of affect contribute to practice-based studies. This pa…
Clinical self-tracking and monitoring technologies: Negotiations in the ICT-mediated patient-provider relationship
This paper discusses mediation in the patient–provider relationship arising from the introduction of digital technology for a specific form of monitoring: ‘clinical self-tracking’. Focusing on the management of type 1 diabetes, a condition that requires significant self-management by patients, we describe how the actors negotiated a new ICT-mediated relationship in three hospital departments. The analysis followed a qualitative design and was car…
Beyond (but not too much) the male breadwinner model: A qualitative study on child care and masculinities in contemporary Italy
This study draws on the results of qualitative research conducted in Verona, north-eastern Italy, collecting data from in-depth interviews and examining the ways in which different masculinities emerge in the sphere of child care. The presented research takes as its theoretical frame of reference the plural conception of masculinity developed by Connell during the last 20 years, analysing the dynamics of hegemony and subordination among different…
On digital intimacy: Redefining Provider-Patient Relationships in Remote Monitoring
Remote monitoring has often been thought to lead to a highly structured and standardised care process. Several studies have stressed that patient-provider communication could be hindered if mediated by technologies, leading to an impoverished relationship. We argue that while remote monitoring leads to a redefinition of the patient-provider relationship, it could also offer the opportunity to develop a more intimate acquaintance not possible via …
Clinical self-tracking and monitoring technologies: Negotiations in the ICT-mediated patient-provider relationship
This paper discusses mediation in the patient–provider relationship arising from the introduction of digital technology for a specific form of monitoring: ‘clinical self-tracking’. Focusing on the management of type 1 diabetes, a condition that requires significant self-management by patients, we describe how the actors negotiated a new ICT-mediated relationship in three hospital departments. The analysis followed a qualitative design and was car…
On care infrastructures and health practices: How people in health promotion programmes try to change their everyday life
This paper contributes to challenging common behavioural or cognitive explanations for health and wellbeing outcomes, focussing on social practices through which people, with the help of other subjects, try to improve their health conditions. To renew the debate about health promotion, my work is placed at the intersection between the sociology of health and illness and science and technology studies, adopting the concepts of care infrastructures…
The co-production of a workplace health promotion program: Expected benefits, contested boundaries
Workplace health promotion (WHP) are often depicted as an opportunity for pursuing a better and broader well-being condition under the assumption that working environments affect the physical, mental, and social well-being of individuals who spend large proportion of waking hours at work. While most empirical studies provided medical evidence to the effectiveness of WHP programs, scholars question the instrumental purposes of these programs found…
Beyond (but not too much) the male breadwinner model: A qualitative study on child care and masculinities in contemporary Italy
This study draws on the results of qualitative research conducted in Verona, north-eastern Italy, collecting data from in-depth interviews and examining the ways in which different masculinities emerge in the sphere of child care. The presented research takes as its theoretical frame of reference the plural conception of masculinity developed by Connell during the last 20 years, analysing the dynamics of hegemony and subordination among different…
Clinical self-tracking and monitoring technologies: Negotiations in the ICT-mediated patient-provider relationship
This paper discusses mediation in the patient–provider relationship arising from the introduction of digital technology for a specific form of monitoring: ‘clinical self-tracking’. Focusing on the management of type 1 diabetes, a condition that requires significant self-management by patients, we describe how the actors negotiated a new ICT-mediated relationship in three hospital departments. The analysis followed a qualitative design and was car…
Tracking the sociomaterial traces of affect at the crossroads of affect and practice theories
Purpose Affect is relevant for organization studies mainly for its potential to reveal the intensities and forces of everyday organizational experiences that may pass unnoticed or pass in silence because they have been discarded from the orthodoxy of doing research “as usual.” The paper is constructed around two questions: what does affect “do” in a situated practice, and what does the study of affect contribute to practice-based studies. This pa…
Homemade: Building, mending, and coordinating a care network
On digital intimacy: Redefining Provider-Patient Relationships in Remote Monitoring
Remote monitoring has often been thought to lead to a highly structured and standardised care process. Several studies have stressed that patient-provider communication could be hindered if mediated by technologies, leading to an impoverished relationship. We argue that while remote monitoring leads to a redefinition of the patient-provider relationship, it could also offer the opportunity to develop a more intimate acquaintance not possible via …
Digital technologies and power dynamics in the organization: A conceptual review of remote working and wearable technologies at work
In this article, we examine the kinds of control practices that emerge with the introduction of digital technologies, and how these technologies are employed to shape power within workplaces. We present a comparative conceptual review of work practices by contrasting remote work and the use of workplace wearables. We trace forms of power and control that have been enacted with the adoption of these work‐related technologies and associated practic…
The co-production of a workplace health promotion program: Expected benefits, contested boundaries
Workplace health promotion (WHP) are often depicted as an opportunity for pursuing a better and broader well-being condition under the assumption that working environments affect the physical, mental, and social well-being of individuals who spend large proportion of waking hours at work. While most empirical studies provided medical evidence to the effectiveness of WHP programs, scholars question the instrumental purposes of these programs found…
Supportive care for older people with dementia: Socio-organisational implications
For many years, dementia care has been dominated by the standard medical approach, in which dementia is treated mainly with drugs, such as anti-anxiety, antidepressant and anti-psychotic medications. With the aim of seeking effective treatments for patients with dementia, over the last years, several contributions have criticised the pervasive use of drugs for the management of behavioural and physiological symptoms related to dementia, proposing…
On care infrastructures and health practices: How people in health promotion programmes try to change their everyday life
This paper contributes to challenging common behavioural or cognitive explanations for health and wellbeing outcomes, focussing on social practices through which people, with the help of other subjects, try to improve their health conditions. To renew the debate about health promotion, my work is placed at the intersection between the sociology of health and illness and science and technology studies, adopting the concepts of care infrastructures…
Reframing Algorithms: STS perspectives to Healthcare Automation
Sociotechnical imaginaries and practices of artificial intelligence in healthcare: Revolutionising care or amplifying new risks? A special issue of health, risk & society
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a key feature of healthcare innovation, reshaping how healthcare professionals represent and manage health risks, deliver care, and define patient o
Algorithmic Choreography: Redefining Human and Non‐Human Relations in Digital Health
This article contributes to the growing debate on algorithms in digital health, which has expanded alongside the integration of algorithmic technologies into diverse healthcare practices and contexts. Although much of the existing literature adopts a deterministic perspective, focusing on the impact of algorithms on society, we propose a different approach. Drawing on the concept of algorithmic choreography, we show how humans and algorithmic tec…
Hybrid intelligence: Understanding how AI reframes risk and uncertainty in dementia care
This article investigates how Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems reshape risk and uncertainty in dementia care by proposing a conceptual shift from technological efficacy to hybrid intelligence. Drawing on empirical research conducted in both residential and home-based care settings in Italy, and based on interviews with professional and informal caregivers, the study explores how AI technologies such as telemonitoring systems and GPS trackers …
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