Dear colleagues,
We’re excited to be convening a panel at the 2025 NordicSTS Conference in Stockholm, 11-13 June, and would love for you to consider joining us! Our panel, “Chronic Care Technologies In and out of the Clinic: Tensions, Transformations, and Transgressions,” explores how digital technologies are shaping the organisation and experience of chronic care—sometimes in expected ways, but often in ways that create new tensions, demands, and possibilities. The CfA is now open, and the deadline is March 1st.
From self-tracking wearables and predictive algorithms to electronic health records and decision support tools, digital infrastructures are increasingly woven into chronic care. But what does this mean for patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals? How do these technologies manage, standardise, or disrupt chronicity? And where do negotiation, resistance, and improvisation emerge?
We’re looking for contributions that engage with these questions from STS, anthropology, sociology, and related fields—whether through empirical studies, conceptual reflections, or methodological perspectives. Topics might include:
📌 Temporalities of chronic care (e.g., managing fluctuating symptoms vs. standardised digital timelines)
📌 Datafication of chronicity (self-tracking, patient-reported outcomes, medical records)
📌 Clinical decision support and its role in organising chronic care
📌 The tension between unpredictability and standardisation in chronic illness care
📌 The maintenance work needed in to keep digital care infrastructures functioning
📌 Access, inclusion, and exclusion in digitally mediated chronic care
The call for abstracts is now open, and we would love to see your work in this discussion! Abstracts can be submitted via [https://www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abstracts/ , where you can also read the full panel description.
Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions and do share this with others in your network who might be interested.
We look forward to your contributions!
Best wishes,
Henriette Langstrup (KU), Benjamin Lipp (DTU), Amelie Lange (DTU)
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Amelie Lange
PhD Student
Department for Technology, Management and Economics
Human-Centred Innovation
Technology and Business Studies
Building 424, office 225
Email: amela@dtu.dk
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