Whoops, wrong talk. See you all tomorrow.
On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 10:11 AM Kurtis Heimerl <[email protected]> wrote: > Final seminar of the quarter tomorrow, hope to see you all there. > > Abstract: Popular chat apps are increasingly being leveraged to make a > combination of patient-provider communication and peer support more > accessible beyond formal healthcare settings. However, how these > interventions are experienced in Global South contexts with phone sharing > and intermittent data access is understudied. The context of stigmatized > illnesses like HIV further complicates privacy concerns. We explore these > concerns through a qualitative study of a six-month pilot of WhatsApp-based > facilitated peer support groups, serving youth living with HIV in an > informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. We draw on chat records and > interviews with youth and the facilitator to describe their experience of > the intervention. We find that despite tensions in group dynamics, > intermittent participation, and contingencies around privacy, youth were > motivated by newfound aspirations and community to manage their health. We > use our findings to discuss implications for the design of chat-based peer > interventions, negotiation of privacy in mobile health applications, and > the role of aspirations in health interventions. > > Bio: Naveena is a PhD candidate at University of Washington in the School > of Computer Science and Engineering. She studies how emerging technologies > have shaped care work in parts of the Global South, including in community > health, nursing, and forms of telehealth. Her work uncovers the > relationships between the design of sociotechnical systems and the > valuation of care work, and what power relations they reproduce or resist > in health and global development. > > -- > Website: https://kurti.sh/ > Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/[email protected] > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > [email protected] > https://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > -- Website: https://kurti.sh/ Public Key: https://flowcrypt.com/pub/[email protected]
_______________________________________________ change mailing list [email protected] https://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change
