Threats and thrills: pregnancy apps, risk and consumption

By G. Thomas, Deborah Lupton. 2016

128 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/77f9ae3214ac49834d8caa58104314b07e68eef2

How researchers see this paper

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Deborah Lupton
2. Sonia Livingstone
3. Elisabeth Staksrud
4. G. Thomas

In Gender Studies

1. Deborah Lupton
2. Sonia Livingstone
3. G. Thomas

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Giovanna Mascheroni
2. Elisabeth Staksrud
3. Sonia Livingstone
4. Ben Williamson
5. Deborah Lupton
6. Sean A Munson
7. Minna Ruckenstein
8. Andra Siibak

Citations in the corpus

• The datafied child: The dataveillance of children and implications for their rights (2017, background): “More than 1000 apps related to pregnancy are now available on the market, many of which provide opportunities for pregnant women to monitor the growth, development, movements and even heart rate of their foetuses (Lupton and Thomas, 2015; Thomas and Lupton, 2015).”
• European research on children’s internet use: Assessing the past and anticipating the future (2018, background): “On the horizon are ‘the internet of things’, smart homes, wearable devices, robotics, augmented and virtual reality, and as hitherto, children and young people are likely to be pioneers in their appropriation (Gubbi et al., 2013; Manches et al., 2015; Thomas and Lupton, 2015).”
• Examining Menstrual Tracking to Inform the Design of Personal Informatics Tools (2017, background): “Many apps for tracking pregnancy focus on associated risks, while others highlight associated joys [41].”