Lindsay Balfour
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsay Balfour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Balfour |
| SIGNATURE | BALFOUR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coventry University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5007-7709 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Strange/R/Ness
Surveillance, Biopower, and Unsettling Intimacies in Reproductive Tracking Platforms
This article turns to the relationship between bodies and selves and the phenomenon of feminine health technologies such as menstruation and ovulation trackers (known as “FemTech”) as a particularly fraught domain of the platform economy. The author explores three interrelated critiques of platform intimacy in FemTech. The author begins with a discussion of biometric surveillance, which takes on new resonance in a post– Roe v. Wade society, where…
The Digital Future of Hospitality
This book asks how an unconditional welcome to strangers is challenged by new digital technologies, machine learning, and human-computer interaction.
FemTech
This volume brings bold interdisciplinary contributions about the FemTech industry from a feminist Science and Technology Studies perspective
Ground Zero Revisited - Museums and Materiality in an Age of Global Pandemic
This paper examines the potential of convergence technologies in the process of 9/11 memorialization, particularly when materiality and its absence are so crucial to the in-situ narrative of post terror attack. Questions over the incorporation of virtual and digital media are not new in the context of COVID-19 but are perhaps more urgent than ever, as we all begin to grapple with the turn to technology as a surrogate for what we cannot physically…
Unlikely cryptfellows
This paper offers a reading of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum to suggest that the encounter with strangers or strangeness is at the core of cultural and commemorative production in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. Specifically, I engage the museum as a text that has significant implications on how we approach the philosophy of hospitality in a time of terror. I argue that the ways in which objects and artifacts exist in relatio…
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Unlikely cryptfellows
This paper offers a reading of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum to suggest that the encounter with strangers or strangeness is at the core of cultural and commemorative production in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. Specifically, I engage the museum as a text that has significant implications on how we approach the philosophy of hospitality in a time of terror. I argue that the ways in which objects and artifacts exist in relatio…
Ground Zero Revisited - Museums and Materiality in an Age of Global Pandemic
This paper examines the potential of convergence technologies in the process of 9/11 memorialization, particularly when materiality and its absence are so crucial to the in-situ narrative of post terror attack. Questions over the incorporation of virtual and digital media are not new in the context of COVID-19 but are perhaps more urgent than ever, as we all begin to grapple with the turn to technology as a surrogate for what we cannot physically…
The Digital Future of Hospitality
This book asks how an unconditional welcome to strangers is challenged by new digital technologies, machine learning, and human-computer interaction.
FemTech
This volume brings bold interdisciplinary contributions about the FemTech industry from a feminist Science and Technology Studies perspective
Surveillance, Biopower, and Unsettling Intimacies in Reproductive Tracking Platforms
This article turns to the relationship between bodies and selves and the phenomenon of feminine health technologies such as menstruation and ovulation trackers (known as “FemTech”) as a particularly fraught domain of the platform economy. The author explores three interrelated critiques of platform intimacy in FemTech. The author begins with a discussion of biometric surveillance, which takes on new resonance in a post– Roe v. Wade society, where…
Strange/R/Ness
Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · History (2 works)