SSSP 2025 Annual Meeting
Date: Saturday, August 9
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 042: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Intersecting Technological, Healthcare, and Social Relations
Room: Chicago Room
Sponsors: Environment and Technology
Institutional Ethnography
Organizers: Laura Parson, North Dakota State University
Alex Megelas, Concordia University
Presider/Discussant: Hans-Peter de Ruiter, Minnesota State University
Description: Exploring intersecting technological, healthcare and social relations through institutional ethnography, ethnography, and qualitative methods.
Papers:
“A Hundred Years of Teaching Experience Confronts Generative AI Unprovoked,” Patricia Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge Brantley, The George Washington University
“Impact of Communication Technology on Social Interaction in a University Environment: An Ethnography Study,” Adetola A. Ajayi, University of West Georgia
“McDonaldization and Artificial Intelligence,” J. Michael Ryan, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
“‘I Still Can Feel the Sickness’: Withdrawal Experiences of People on Methadone Maintenance Treatment,” David Frank, Alexander S. Bennett, Luther Elliott and Suzan M. Walters, New York University
