2018 News Archive

16.12.2018

Tereza Hendl gives a talk on "The future of mHealth technologies from a public health perspective" at the 11th International Conference on Applied Ethics at the University of Kyoto.

12.12.2018

Nicole Peter gives a talk on “mHealth in Health Promotion and Prevention - Status Quo and Prognosis: A mixed methods survey on the current state and expectations of mobile health technologies” at the research colloquium at the Institute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, LMU Munich.

15.11.2018

The META project is mentioned on the platform “Gerechte Gesundheit”.

15.11.2018

The Call for Papers is out for the conference “Digital Behavioural Technology, Vulnerability and Justice”, to be held at TUM and LMU from 1-3 July 2019. Deadline for submission of extended abstracts is Dec 31, 2018. Co-sponsored by Review of Social Economy, BMBF-Project META (LMU), BIDT, TU Munich.

14.11.2018

The META project starts a collaboration with Bundesvereinigung für Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung e.V. (BVPG) on digital health / mHealth and ethics.

09.11.2018

Bianca Jansky is giving a talk on socio-materialistic aspects of sensor-based glucose monitoring devices in diabetes care at the Workshop: “Wer (oder was) versorgt uns(ere) Patienten? Computerisierung von Diagnostik, Therapie und Pflege“ at Deutsches Museum, Munich.

01.11.2018

Ela Sauerborn has started working as student research assistant. Welcome to the team!

26.10.2018

Tereza Hendl and Bianca Jansky are giving a talk on “Empowered through an mHealth interface? The epistemology of period and fertility tracker app” and Katharina Eisenhut is giving a talk on “Epistemic injustice and Gender Based Violence Apps” at the Workshop on “Feminist Philosophy of Technology” organised by the department of Philosophy of Media and Technology, University Vienna.

01.10.2018

Tereza Hendl, PhD, starts working as postdoctoral researcher, Nicole Peter starts her internship at the META project. Welcome!

24.09.2018

Bianca Jansky is giving a talk on “DIY Diabetes: Exploring the appropriation of glucose monitoring devices in a digital global diabetes community” at the seminar on “Appropriating technologies: the political economy and routinization of artefacts and devices” organised by the Technology and Political Economy researcher group at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.

14.09.2018

Katharina Eisenhut gave a talk on “Opposing Gender Based Violence with an app? For a normative framework of applications in the realm of health and prevention” (“Gewalt gegen Frauen mittels App verhindern? Für eine ethisch-normative Einbettung von Apps im Bereich Gesundheit und Prävention”) at the annual meeting of the German Society of Medical Ethics (AEM) in Cologne.

24.08.2018

Katharina Eisenhut is giving a talk on “Mobile technologies against Gender Based Violence? The ethics including women’s voices, relations and structural background conditions” at the European Society of Philosophy in Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH) Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.