Tamar Sharon
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 296693 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tamar Sharon |
| PRENOMES | Tamar |
| SOBRENOME | Sharon |
| ASSINATURA | SHARON T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0155-9220 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 129 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Technosolutionism and the empathetic medical chatbot
This article argues for the value of applying the concept of technosolutionism to empathetic medical chatbots. By directing one’s attention to the relationship between (techno)solutions and the problems they are supposed to solve, technosolutionism helps identify two important risks in this context that tend to get overlooked in the discussion on privacy, bias, and hallucination risks of (generative) AI. First, empathetic chatbots may lead to a r…
The Green Transition will be just – Or it won't succeed
The European Commission defines the Green Transition as the transformation set out in the European Green Deal. Ensuring that this transition is just is both an ethical requirement and a practical condition for maintaining public support and policy effectiveness. This Perspective proposes a multidimensional framework for assessing justice in Green Transition policies, encompassing distributional, procedural, recognitional, corrective, and transiti…
Vulnerability in the shadows
Sphere transgressions
Regulating Big Tech expansionism? Sphere transgressions and the limits of Europe’s digital regulatory strategy
The increasing power of Big Tech is a growing concern for regulators globally. The European Union has positioned itself as a leader in the stride to contain this expansionism; first with the GDPR and recently with a series of proposals including the DMA, the DSA, the AI Act, and others. In this paper we analyse if these instruments sufficiently address the risks raised by Big Tech expansionism. We argue that when this phenomenon is understood in …
Where Technology Leads, the Problems Follow. Technosolutionism and the Dutch Contact Tracing App
In April 2020, in the midst of its first pandemic lockdown, the Dutch government announced plans to develop a contact tracing app to help contain the spread of the coronavirus – the Coronamelder. Originally intended to address the problem of the overburdening of manual contract tracers, by the time the app was released six months later, the problem it sought to solve had drastically changed, without the solution undergoing any modification, makin…
The European health data space
Solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised solidarity in their everyday lives since the beginning of the pandemic. What role does solidarity play in people's lives, how does it relate to COVID-19 public health measures and how has it changed in different phases of the pandemic? Situated within the medical humanities at the in…
Democratic research
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
The participatory turn in health and medicine
What has been called the “participatory turn” in health and medicine refers to a general shift from paternalistic and hierarchical, to more collaborative and egalitarian relationships between medical experts and patients/research participants; a shift from what the pragmatic sociologists Boltanski and Thévenot (2006) call a “domestic” to a “civic” order of worth. Critical scholarship on the participatory turn tends to emphasize discrepancies betw…
Towards a seamful ethics of Covid-19 contact tracing apps
In the early months of 2020, the deadly Covid-19 disease spread rapidly around the world. In response, national and regional governments implemented a range of emergency lockdown measures, curtailing citizens’ movements and greatly limiting economic activity. More recently, as restrictions begin to be loosened or lifted entirely, the use of so-called contact tracing apps has figured prominently in many jurisdictions’ plans to reopen society. Crit…
The ethics of inattention
Societies evolve practices that reflect social norms of appropriateness in social interaction, for example when and to what extent one should respect the boundaries of another person’s private sphere. One such practice is what the sociologist Erving Goffman called civil inattention—the social norm of showing a proper amount of indifference to others—which functions as an almost unnoticed yet highly potent privacy-preserving mechanism. These pract…
Blind-sided by privacy? Digital contact tracing, the Apple/Google API and big tech’s newfound role as global health policy makers
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, governments have turned their attention to digital contact tracing. In many countries, public debate has focused on the risks this technology poses to privacy, with advocates and experts sounding alarm bells about surveillance and mission creep reminiscent of the post 9/11 era. Yet, when Apple and Google launched their contact tracing API in April 2020, some of the world’s leading privacy experts applauded this ini…
From hostile worlds to multiple spheres
The datafication and digitalization of health and medicine has engendered a proliferation of new collaborations between public health institutions and data corporations like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. Critical perspectives on these new partnerships tend to frame them as an instance of market transgressions by tech giants into the sphere of health and medicine, in line with a “hostile worlds” doctrine that upholds that the borders betwee…
Normative positions towards Covid-19 contact-tracing apps
Mobile applications for digital contact tracing have been developed and introduced around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed as a tool to support 'traditional' forms of contact-tracing carried out to monitor contagion, these apps have triggered an intense debate with respect to their legal and ethical permissibility, social desirability and general feasibility. Based on a large-scale study including qualitative data from 349…
Introduction to the Special Theme
n Contains fulltext :\n 208657.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
When digital health meets digital capitalism, how many common goods are at stake
In recent years, all major consumer technology corporations have moved into the domain of health research. This 'Googlization of health research' ('GHR') begs the question of how the common good will be served in this research. As critical data scholars contend, such phenomena must be situated within the political economy of digital capitalism in order to foreground the question of public interest and the common good. Here, trends like GHR are fr…
The Googlization of Health Research
Consumer-oriented mobile technologies offer new ways of capturing multidimensional health data, and are increasingly seen as facilitators of medical research. This has opened the way for large consumer tech companies, like Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook, to enter the space of health research, offering new methods for collecting, storing and analyzing health data. While these developments are often portrayed as 'disrupting' research in benefic…
From data fetishism to quantifying selves
This article foregrounds the ways in which members of the Quantified Self ascribe value and meaning to the data they generate in self-tracking practices. We argue that the widespread idea that what draws self-trackers to numerical data is its perceived power of truth and objectivity—a so-called “data fetishism”—is limiting. Using an ethnographic approach, we describe three ways in which self-trackers attribute meaning to their data-gathering prac…
Self-Tracking for Health and the Quantified Self
Self-tracking devices point to a future in which individuals will be more involved in the management of their health and will generate data that will benefit clinical decision making and research. They have thus attracted enthusiasm from medical and public health professionals as key players in the move toward participatory and personalized healthcare. Critics, however, have begun to articulate a number of broader societal and ethical concerns re…
Book Symposium on Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology
Healthy citizenship beyond autonomy and discipline
Book Symposium on Homo sapiens Technologicus
A Schizoanalysis of Emerging Biotechnologies
The essay argues that Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's schizoanalysis is a particularly helpful means of framing critical readings of emerging biotechnologies. It not only offers a terminology for articulating the tension between the deconstructive and destabilizing effects of new technologies versus their potential to reinforce traditional patterns of power, it can also push these analyses further. The complex movements of de- and reterritori…
Self-Tracking for Health and the Quantified Self
Self-tracking devices point to a future in which individuals will be more involved in the management of their health and will generate data that will benefit clinical decision making and research. They have thus attracted enthusiasm from medical and public health professionals as key players in the move toward participatory and personalized healthcare. Critics, however, have begun to articulate a number of broader societal and ethical concerns re…
From data fetishism to quantifying selves
This article foregrounds the ways in which members of the Quantified Self ascribe value and meaning to the data they generate in self-tracking practices. We argue that the widespread idea that what draws self-trackers to numerical data is its perceived power of truth and objectivity—a so-called “data fetishism”—is limiting. Using an ethnographic approach, we describe three ways in which self-trackers attribute meaning to their data-gathering prac…
When digital health meets digital capitalism, how many common goods are at stake
In recent years, all major consumer technology corporations have moved into the domain of health research. This 'Googlization of health research' ('GHR') begs the question of how the common good will be served in this research. As critical data scholars contend, such phenomena must be situated within the political economy of digital capitalism in order to foreground the question of public interest and the common good. Here, trends like GHR are fr…
Introduction to the Special Theme
n Contains fulltext :\n 208657.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised solidarity in their everyday lives since the beginning of the pandemic. What role does solidarity play in people's lives, how does it relate to COVID-19 public health measures and how has it changed in different phases of the pandemic? Situated within the medical humanities at the in…
A Schizoanalysis of Emerging Biotechnologies
The essay argues that Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's schizoanalysis is a particularly helpful means of framing critical readings of emerging biotechnologies. It not only offers a terminology for articulating the tension between the deconstructive and destabilizing effects of new technologies versus their potential to reinforce traditional patterns of power, it can also push these analyses further. The complex movements of de- and reterritori…
Book Symposium on Homo sapiens Technologicus
Book Symposium on Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology
Healthy citizenship beyond autonomy and discipline
The Googlization of Health Research
Consumer-oriented mobile technologies offer new ways of capturing multidimensional health data, and are increasingly seen as facilitators of medical research. This has opened the way for large consumer tech companies, like Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook, to enter the space of health research, offering new methods for collecting, storing and analyzing health data. While these developments are often portrayed as 'disrupting' research in benefic…
From data fetishism to quantifying selves
This article foregrounds the ways in which members of the Quantified Self ascribe value and meaning to the data they generate in self-tracking practices. We argue that the widespread idea that what draws self-trackers to numerical data is its perceived power of truth and objectivity—a so-called “data fetishism”—is limiting. Using an ethnographic approach, we describe three ways in which self-trackers attribute meaning to their data-gathering prac…
Self-Tracking for Health and the Quantified Self
Self-tracking devices point to a future in which individuals will be more involved in the management of their health and will generate data that will benefit clinical decision making and research. They have thus attracted enthusiasm from medical and public health professionals as key players in the move toward participatory and personalized healthcare. Critics, however, have begun to articulate a number of broader societal and ethical concerns re…
When digital health meets digital capitalism, how many common goods are at stake
In recent years, all major consumer technology corporations have moved into the domain of health research. This 'Googlization of health research' ('GHR') begs the question of how the common good will be served in this research. As critical data scholars contend, such phenomena must be situated within the political economy of digital capitalism in order to foreground the question of public interest and the common good. Here, trends like GHR are fr…
Introduction to the Special Theme
n Contains fulltext :\n 208657.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The participatory turn in health and medicine
What has been called the “participatory turn” in health and medicine refers to a general shift from paternalistic and hierarchical, to more collaborative and egalitarian relationships between medical experts and patients/research participants; a shift from what the pragmatic sociologists Boltanski and Thévenot (2006) call a “domestic” to a “civic” order of worth. Critical scholarship on the participatory turn tends to emphasize discrepancies betw…
Towards a seamful ethics of Covid-19 contact tracing apps
In the early months of 2020, the deadly Covid-19 disease spread rapidly around the world. In response, national and regional governments implemented a range of emergency lockdown measures, curtailing citizens’ movements and greatly limiting economic activity. More recently, as restrictions begin to be loosened or lifted entirely, the use of so-called contact tracing apps has figured prominently in many jurisdictions’ plans to reopen society. Crit…
The ethics of inattention
Societies evolve practices that reflect social norms of appropriateness in social interaction, for example when and to what extent one should respect the boundaries of another person’s private sphere. One such practice is what the sociologist Erving Goffman called civil inattention—the social norm of showing a proper amount of indifference to others—which functions as an almost unnoticed yet highly potent privacy-preserving mechanism. These pract…
Blind-sided by privacy? Digital contact tracing, the Apple/Google API and big tech’s newfound role as global health policy makers
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, governments have turned their attention to digital contact tracing. In many countries, public debate has focused on the risks this technology poses to privacy, with advocates and experts sounding alarm bells about surveillance and mission creep reminiscent of the post 9/11 era. Yet, when Apple and Google launched their contact tracing API in April 2020, some of the world’s leading privacy experts applauded this ini…
From hostile worlds to multiple spheres
The datafication and digitalization of health and medicine has engendered a proliferation of new collaborations between public health institutions and data corporations like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. Critical perspectives on these new partnerships tend to frame them as an instance of market transgressions by tech giants into the sphere of health and medicine, in line with a “hostile worlds” doctrine that upholds that the borders betwee…
Normative positions towards Covid-19 contact-tracing apps
Mobile applications for digital contact tracing have been developed and introduced around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed as a tool to support 'traditional' forms of contact-tracing carried out to monitor contagion, these apps have triggered an intense debate with respect to their legal and ethical permissibility, social desirability and general feasibility. Based on a large-scale study including qualitative data from 349…
Democratic research
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
The European health data space
Solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised solidarity in their everyday lives since the beginning of the pandemic. What role does solidarity play in people's lives, how does it relate to COVID-19 public health measures and how has it changed in different phases of the pandemic? Situated within the medical humanities at the in…
Sphere transgressions
Regulating Big Tech expansionism? Sphere transgressions and the limits of Europe’s digital regulatory strategy
The increasing power of Big Tech is a growing concern for regulators globally. The European Union has positioned itself as a leader in the stride to contain this expansionism; first with the GDPR and recently with a series of proposals including the DMA, the DSA, the AI Act, and others. In this paper we analyse if these instruments sufficiently address the risks raised by Big Tech expansionism. We argue that when this phenomenon is understood in …
Where Technology Leads, the Problems Follow. Technosolutionism and the Dutch Contact Tracing App
In April 2020, in the midst of its first pandemic lockdown, the Dutch government announced plans to develop a contact tracing app to help contain the spread of the coronavirus – the Coronamelder. Originally intended to address the problem of the overburdening of manual contract tracers, by the time the app was released six months later, the problem it sought to solve had drastically changed, without the solution undergoing any modification, makin…
Vulnerability in the shadows
Technosolutionism and the empathetic medical chatbot
This article argues for the value of applying the concept of technosolutionism to empathetic medical chatbots. By directing one’s attention to the relationship between (techno)solutions and the problems they are supposed to solve, technosolutionism helps identify two important risks in this context that tend to get overlooked in the discussion on privacy, bias, and hallucination risks of (generative) AI. First, empathetic chatbots may lead to a r…
The Green Transition will be just – Or it won't succeed
The European Commission defines the Green Transition as the transformation set out in the European Green Deal. Ensuring that this transition is just is both an ethical requirement and a practical condition for maintaining public support and policy effectiveness. This Perspective proposes a multidimensional framework for assessing justice in Green Transition policies, encompassing distributional, procedural, recognitional, corrective, and transiti…
Sociology (16 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · Public relations (9 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (7 obras) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (6 obras)