LSTS' Niels Van Dijk, alongside Katerina Sideri of the University of Crete in Greece, have recently published an article in the journal of Social Studies of Science, entitled The techno-politics of computing the mind: Opening the black box of digital psychiatry.
Psychiatry has recently witnessed the launch of digital phenotyping as a new research agenda. According to digital phenotyping’s hypothesis, data about a patient’s daily behavior can be continuously collected through wearable monitoring devices and used to build software that would send warnings of mental relapse or would tailor treatment choices.
The article is available online https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03063127241273067