Caring technologies & mental health matters

Day 1: Caring Technologies Seminar, June 9: Open-to-public seminar with two keynotes 

Virta Building, Auditorium 109, at Tampere University (Åkerlundinkatu 5) and LIVESTREAM

10:15 – 11:45: Opening words and keynote

Professor Jeannette Pols (University of Amsterdam, NL):
How Technologies Improve Our World – Or Not: Forms of the Good in Ethnographic Studies of Technology

13:00–14:45: Session 1

Taina Meriluoto (University of Helsinki) & Suvi Salmenniemi (University of Turku):
Radical Self-Care and Contradictions of Capitalism: Insights from Instagram

Daria Kosinova (University of Turku):
‘There Is No One Magic Touch’: Affective Atmospheres of Digital Mental Health Care Among People with Migrant and Ethnic Minority Backgrounds Living in Finland

Mari Lehto (University of Turku):
Networked Neurodivergence: Unruly Intensities of Digital ADHD Life

15:00–16:10: Session 2

Essi Holopainen (University of Helsinki) & Meri Kulmala (University of Helsinki): 
Digital Wellbeing of Young People: Mental Health Peer Support on Social Media

Marjo Kolehmainen (University of Turku):
Haunting Data: Mental Health, Data-Hacking and Digital Temporalities

16:30 – 17:45: Keynote

Professor Ian Tucker (University of East London, UK):
Algorithmic Atmospheres and Digital Infrastructures of Care: Reconfiguring Mental Health in Digital Cultures

Day 2: Mental Health Matters Workshop, June 10, with an open-to-public keynote and workshop for invited participants

Tampere University, Linna building (Kalevantie 5). The keynote talk is accessible online via Zoom.

11:30 – 12:45 Keynote

Dr Jacinthe Flore (University of Melbourne, Australia):
Mental Health Beyond the Mind: Technologies of the ‘Total Body’