Giada Danesi
Biographic Data
| ID | 362704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giada Danesi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giada |
| FAMILY NAME | Danesi |
| SIGNATURE | DANESI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8061-2140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Doing Qualitative Participatory Research With Patients With Chronic Rare Diseases
Peer research is a participatory approach in which citizens are actively involved as peer researchers (PRs) in all aspects of the research project alongside academic researchers (ARs). In qualitative studies, “peer-interviewing” raises some specific issues. There has been little discussion disentangling these specificities of peer-interviewing, and few papers report the processual experience of patients engaged in qualitative research as peer-int…
For Me, Quality of Life Is When I Get Through the Day Without Thinking
BACKGROUND: Vascular liver diseases (VLDs) predominantly affect young adults and require lifelong monitoring. The health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with VLDs is deteriorated, with high levels of fatigue and depressive symptoms, but their lived experience and unmet needs remain unknown. To fully integrate the patients' perspective and generate actionable insights, we conducted a qualitative peer-research study. METHODS: Twelve pee…
Health-Related Expertise in the Digital Age
Special Issue "Health-Related Expertise in the Digital Age: Reconfigurations and Redistributions", guest edited by Sandra Bärnreuther, Nolwenn Bühler and Giada Danesi
Automating Dietary Expertise
Digitally tracking food and eating has become a widespread activity. Scholars in anthropology, sociology and science and technology studies have problematised the personal and social implications of dietary tracking and the metrification of food and eating. Metrification has contributed to the emergence of new types of relevant expertise and new experts of eating and health. This warrants in-depth research to better understand the forming, negoti…
More of the same? How digital food platforms reinforce prevailing eating interests and practices
Une technologie qui redistribue l’attention
La technologie occupe une place cruciale dans la division du travail entre les personnes vivant avec un diabète et les acteur·rice·s impliqué·e·s dans leur prise en charge. Au cours d’une recherche ethnographique menée en Suisse, nous avons étudié les usages des technologies dans la gestion du diabète au sein de larges réseaux de soin impliquant différents sites de prise en charge. À la suite des nombreuses recherches issues des STS prenant pour …
Learning to manage diabetes using a flash glucose monitoring device at a summer camp
Self-management of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a difficult task that involves different actions and decisions and requires various types of knowledge. Nowadays, it can be done partly autonomously, using a mobile digital device that measures the level of blood glucose. The FreeStyle Libre, launched on the Swiss market in 2016, is one such device. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies and adopting a sociocultural approach to learning, the present …
Techno-social reconfigurations in diabetes (self-) care
This article focuses on the ways in which a flash glucose monitoring system, FreeStyle Libre®, is introduced and used by people living with type 1 diabetes, their relatives and healthcare professionals. It draws on a multi-sited ethnography in a variety of clinical and daily situations, and on interviews with caregivers and people living with diabetes. We explore how the users develop knowledge-in-practice, and consider the use of self-management…
Socioeconomic Differences and the Potential Role of Tribes in Young People’s Food and Drink Purchasing Outside School at Lunchtime
Socioeconomic deprivation has been linked to food consumption practices, but studies investigating the food environment around schools provide mixed findings. Peer influence and marketing cues are considered important influencers of young people's behaviors. This study used a tribal theory lens to investigate the factors affecting pupils' purchasing and consumption of food/drinks outside schools at lunchtime. A survey was conducted with 243 pupil…
The Socio‐Economic Boundaries Shaping Young People's Lunchtime Food Practices on a School Day
Not enough is known about the relationship between socio‐economic deprivation and places where young people purchase food at lunchtime on a school day. This paper draws on qualitative data from 600 + young people aged 13–15 years and illustrates that socioeconomic factors form boundaries that young people have a feeling for when buying food. This informs where they seek out lunch (at school or in local food outlets) and what products, service and…
A cross-cultural approach to eating together
This article explores commensal practices of French, German and Spanish young adults. In doing so, it aims to fill a gap in research on commensality and on contemporary eating practices in Europe within a qualitative cross-cultural approach. The different nationalities of the informants, along with their country of residence, contribute to emphasizing cultural diversity and laying the foundations for the highlighting of poignant differences betwe…
Comparing commensality
This essay explores festive eating occasions among French, German and Spanish young adults. It draws from in-depth interviews with 83 young adults of these three nationalities living in one of these countries, as well as participant, direct and 'floating' observation of their eating events in Lyon, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, and Madrid. The paper sheds light on commonalities and differences between their festive forms of commensality in relationsh…
Commensality in French and German young adults
Commensality is crucial to understanding the social organization of societies, and illustrates transformations in the relationship between humans and food. Societal changes over the last 40 years in western countries have entailed a 'destructuration' of eating patterns, an increase in the number of solitary food consumptions and of 'snacking'. Using an ethnographic approach, this work investigates how and why young adults (18–27 years old) eat to…
Techno-social reconfigurations in diabetes (self-) care
This article focuses on the ways in which a flash glucose monitoring system, FreeStyle Libre®, is introduced and used by people living with type 1 diabetes, their relatives and healthcare professionals. It draws on a multi-sited ethnography in a variety of clinical and daily situations, and on interviews with caregivers and people living with diabetes. We explore how the users develop knowledge-in-practice, and consider the use of self-management…
A cross-cultural approach to eating together
This article explores commensal practices of French, German and Spanish young adults. In doing so, it aims to fill a gap in research on commensality and on contemporary eating practices in Europe within a qualitative cross-cultural approach. The different nationalities of the informants, along with their country of residence, contribute to emphasizing cultural diversity and laying the foundations for the highlighting of poignant differences betwe…
Automating Dietary Expertise
Digitally tracking food and eating has become a widespread activity. Scholars in anthropology, sociology and science and technology studies have problematised the personal and social implications of dietary tracking and the metrification of food and eating. Metrification has contributed to the emergence of new types of relevant expertise and new experts of eating and health. This warrants in-depth research to better understand the forming, negoti…
Commensality in French and German young adults
Commensality is crucial to understanding the social organization of societies, and illustrates transformations in the relationship between humans and food. Societal changes over the last 40 years in western countries have entailed a 'destructuration' of eating patterns, an increase in the number of solitary food consumptions and of 'snacking'. Using an ethnographic approach, this work investigates how and why young adults (18–27 years old) eat to…
Comparing commensality
This essay explores festive eating occasions among French, German and Spanish young adults. It draws from in-depth interviews with 83 young adults of these three nationalities living in one of these countries, as well as participant, direct and 'floating' observation of their eating events in Lyon, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, and Madrid. The paper sheds light on commonalities and differences between their festive forms of commensality in relationsh…
The Socio‐Economic Boundaries Shaping Young People's Lunchtime Food Practices on a School Day
Not enough is known about the relationship between socio‐economic deprivation and places where young people purchase food at lunchtime on a school day. This paper draws on qualitative data from 600 + young people aged 13–15 years and illustrates that socioeconomic factors form boundaries that young people have a feeling for when buying food. This informs where they seek out lunch (at school or in local food outlets) and what products, service and…
A cross-cultural approach to eating together
This article explores commensal practices of French, German and Spanish young adults. In doing so, it aims to fill a gap in research on commensality and on contemporary eating practices in Europe within a qualitative cross-cultural approach. The different nationalities of the informants, along with their country of residence, contribute to emphasizing cultural diversity and laying the foundations for the highlighting of poignant differences betwe…
Socioeconomic Differences and the Potential Role of Tribes in Young People’s Food and Drink Purchasing Outside School at Lunchtime
Socioeconomic deprivation has been linked to food consumption practices, but studies investigating the food environment around schools provide mixed findings. Peer influence and marketing cues are considered important influencers of young people's behaviors. This study used a tribal theory lens to investigate the factors affecting pupils' purchasing and consumption of food/drinks outside schools at lunchtime. A survey was conducted with 243 pupil…
Techno-social reconfigurations in diabetes (self-) care
This article focuses on the ways in which a flash glucose monitoring system, FreeStyle Libre®, is introduced and used by people living with type 1 diabetes, their relatives and healthcare professionals. It draws on a multi-sited ethnography in a variety of clinical and daily situations, and on interviews with caregivers and people living with diabetes. We explore how the users develop knowledge-in-practice, and consider the use of self-management…
Learning to manage diabetes using a flash glucose monitoring device at a summer camp
Self-management of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a difficult task that involves different actions and decisions and requires various types of knowledge. Nowadays, it can be done partly autonomously, using a mobile digital device that measures the level of blood glucose. The FreeStyle Libre, launched on the Swiss market in 2016, is one such device. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies and adopting a sociocultural approach to learning, the present …
Une technologie qui redistribue l’attention
La technologie occupe une place cruciale dans la division du travail entre les personnes vivant avec un diabète et les acteur·rice·s impliqué·e·s dans leur prise en charge. Au cours d’une recherche ethnographique menée en Suisse, nous avons étudié les usages des technologies dans la gestion du diabète au sein de larges réseaux de soin impliquant différents sites de prise en charge. À la suite des nombreuses recherches issues des STS prenant pour …
Health-Related Expertise in the Digital Age
Special Issue "Health-Related Expertise in the Digital Age: Reconfigurations and Redistributions", guest edited by Sandra Bärnreuther, Nolwenn Bühler and Giada Danesi
Automating Dietary Expertise
Digitally tracking food and eating has become a widespread activity. Scholars in anthropology, sociology and science and technology studies have problematised the personal and social implications of dietary tracking and the metrification of food and eating. Metrification has contributed to the emergence of new types of relevant expertise and new experts of eating and health. This warrants in-depth research to better understand the forming, negoti…
More of the same? How digital food platforms reinforce prevailing eating interests and practices
Doing Qualitative Participatory Research With Patients With Chronic Rare Diseases
Peer research is a participatory approach in which citizens are actively involved as peer researchers (PRs) in all aspects of the research project alongside academic researchers (ARs). In qualitative studies, “peer-interviewing” raises some specific issues. There has been little discussion disentangling these specificities of peer-interviewing, and few papers report the processual experience of patients engaged in qualitative research as peer-int…
For Me, Quality of Life Is When I Get Through the Day Without Thinking
BACKGROUND: Vascular liver diseases (VLDs) predominantly affect young adults and require lifelong monitoring. The health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with VLDs is deteriorated, with high levels of fatigue and depressive symptoms, but their lived experience and unmet needs remain unknown. To fully integrate the patients' perspective and generate actionable insights, we conducted a qualitative peer-research study. METHODS: Twelve pee…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (3 works) · Feeling (3 works) · German (3 works) · Knowledge management (3 works)