<div dir="ltr"><h2><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Swinburne Institute for Social Research - Seminar Series</span></h2>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Presenter: Deborah Lupton, University of Canberra</span></strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)"></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Title: A Sociomaterialist Perspective on 3D Printed Digital Body Objects in Medicine and Health
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Date: Friday, 17 April 2015
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Time: 12:00-1:00pm
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Venue: BA802-803</span></strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">
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<p style="line-height:15pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">The
advent of 3D printing technologies has generated new ways of
representing and conceptualising health and illness, medical practice
and the body.
There are many social, cultural and political implications of 3D
printing, but a critical sociology of 3D printing is only beginning to
emerge. In this paper I seek to contribute to this nascent literature by
addressing some of the ways in which 3D printing
technologies are being used to convert digital data collected on human
bodies and fabricate them into tangible forms that can be touched and
held. I focus in particular on the use of 3D printing to manufacture
non-organic replicas of individuals’ bodies, body
parts or bodily functions and activities. In analysing these new forms
of human bodies, I draw on sociomaterialist perspectives as well as the
recent work of scholars who have sought to reflect on selfhood,
embodiment, place and space in digital society and
the nature of people’s interactions with digital data. The paper ends
with some speculations about where these technologies may be headed and
outlining future research directions.</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(102,102,102)">Deborah Lupton
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Centenary Research Professor in the News & Medical Research Centre,
Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra. She is a
sociologist who over an academic
career of over two decades has published extensively on the
sociocultural dimensions of digital technologies; medicine and public
health; risk; the body; food; obesity politics; and pregnancy and
parenting. Deborah’s current research interests include self-tracking,
data practices and cultures and digital health technologies. She is the
author/co-authored of 14 books and is currently working on two new
books: one on self-tracking and the other on critical digital health
studies.</span></p>
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