Digital Body Knowledge. Fault Lines of Problematic Popularity in Health Care (C02)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438577023

The work program is divided into two sections. Section I (Gray Data) continues to collect empir-ical material and aims to analyze digital health data as “gray data”, i.e. as data that is not officially certified but may contain relevant information. Section II (New Metrics) studies popular health metrics, such as stresslevel or sleepscore, and their relations to medical and lifestyle data.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1472: Transformations of the Popular
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Cornelius Schubert