The Internet of Things in Australia: Social Impacts and Issues

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Join the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and the IEEE Society for Social Implications in Technology (Australia Chapter) (IEEE SSIT) for the first of the Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World online seminar series: 'The Internet of Things in Australia: Social Impacts and Issues'. Professor Deborah Lupton will be discussing the social considerations and challenges posed by a growing cyber-physical world.

The Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World Seminar Series brings together interdisciplinary expertise to raise awareness on the issues unique to a society where the physical and the digital are increasingly intertwined. This series is intended for scholars and practitioners from law and other areas who are keen to learn about challenges in a cyber-physical world from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Speaker
Professor Deborah Lupton was a co-author of the recent ARC-funded Australian Council of Learned Academies’ Horizon Scanning Report, The Internet of Things (2020). She is a UNSW SHARP Professor in the Centre for Social Research in Health, the Social Policy Research Centre and Leader of the Vitalities Lab. Professor Lupton is also the UNSW Node Leader, Health Focus Area Leader and People Co-Leader of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. She has a background in sociology and media and cultural studies, and her research combines qualitative and innovative social research methods with sociocultural theory. She blogs at This Sociological Life.

Professor Lupton is the author of 18 books, including Data Selves: More-than-Human Perspectives (2019), Digital health: Critical and cross-disciplinary perspectives (2017) and The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking (2016) (as well as hundreds of other publications).

The session will be hosted by Dr Kayleen Manwaring, Stream Leader of Challenges for a Cyber-Physical World at the Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation and NSW Co-ordinator of the IEEE SSIT.