STS Encounters

STS Encounters https://tidsskrift.dk/encounters STS Encounters is published by the Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies. The aim of the journal is to publish high quality STS research, support collaboration in the Danish STS community and contribute to the recognition of Danish STS nationally and internationally. In this context STS is understood as a broad and interdisciplinary field. Encounters encourages submissions from all relevant fields and subfields of social and cultural inquiry dealing with scientific and technological matters. The editorial board emphasizes that the journal is to offer a broad and nuanced view of the Danish STS environment. This applies to theoretical and analytical frameworks, choice of method and substantive empirical areas. en-US Starting with volume 15, articles published in STS Encounters are licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)</a>. The editorial board may accept other Creative Commons licenses for individual articles, if required by funding bodies e.g. the European Research Council. Previous articles are not licensed under Creative Commons. In these volumes, all rights are reserved to the authors of the articles respectively. pdanholt@cc.au.dk (Peter Danholt) imvko@cc.au.dk (Kasper Ostrowski) Mon, 06 Jan 2025 13:26:15 +0100 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Enacting different stories https://tidsskrift.dk/encounters/article/view/152578 We scrutinize how people living with diabetes type 2 and co-morbidities enact stories as part of attending telemonitoring services. Although telemonitoring has been attached to a host of promises and diagnoses, we argue, it is pivotal to understand the stories and engagements that care receivers enact about it. This perspective is missing in the literature. We frame our analysis with the notions of ‘modes of ordering’ and ‘justification’ to analyze ethnographic interviews, logbooks, and presentations and discussion at a workshop. We conducted sixteen interviews with persons living with diabetes type 2 to scrutiny how they order their lives while, increasingly, care devices enter their private homes. Our analysis leads to four modes of ordering and their justification: (1) telecare as a ritual to gain reassurance, (2) telecare to receive support from nurses, (3) telecare to deal with flexibility and control, and (4) telecare as a signifier of failure to stick to the diabetes regime. The study untangles the contexts of what people aim to achieve, the struggle they undergo, and the transformation of their aims. To get a better understanding of care receivers’ engagement, we propose positioning people involved in type 2 diabetes telemonitoring as subjects in need of support to manage their health condition. The research design committed the participants to reflect over self-tracking at home over a period. Also, it gave them an opportunity to demonstrate how they self-track by making a presentation of their everyday self-tracking practice at the workshop. Telemonitoring becomes different things in peoples’ lives, and the justifications for participating differ and transform along with the engagement. We conclude that stories about self-tracking is enacted in various ways depending on contexts such as co-morbidity, the support they get and their position at the labor market.  Niels Christian Nickelsen, Jeannette Pols Copyright (c) 2025 Niels Christian Nickelsen, Jeannette Pols https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 https://tidsskrift.dk/encounters/article/view/152578 Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100