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 &

Presiders/Discussants: Laura Parson, North Dakota State University
Alex Megelas, Concordia 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

“Algorithmic Scores as Boundary Objects: Risk Assessments and the Uses of Professional Authority in US Pretrial Hearings,” Sino V. Esthappan, Northwestern 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 Charles M. Cleland, New York University, Beth E. Meyerson, Harm Reduction Research Lab, University of Arizona, Suzan M. Walters, New York University, Danielle M. Russell, Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Caty Simon, North Carolina Survivors Union and Joy D. Scheidell, University of Central Florida

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