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Networked Care Responsibilities: Caring for Ourselves and Others in the Digital Age
Alexei Gloukhovtsev
Kristen L. Walker
Courtney Nations Azzari
Care in the digital age is increasingly shared across families, professionals, institutions, platforms, and technologies. This track examines how tools such as care-coordination platforms, AI companions, GPS wearables, self-tracking devices, and automated monitors reshape caregiving responsibilities and consumer well-being. We invite scholars to explore when technology-enabled monitoring provides safety, independence, and peace of mind—and when it creates privacy harms, coerced participation, unequal burdens, or diminished dignity. Together, participants will consider how market-based care technologies redistribute visibility, authority, labor, and vulnerability across networks of caregivers and care recipients.
