My recent publications (2018 onwards only)

My Google Scholar profile lists my entire career publications

Authored books

  • Lupton, D. (2018) Fat (revised 2nd edition). Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Lupton, D. (2019) Data Selves: More-than-Human Perspectives. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Lupton, D., Southerton, C., Clarke, M. and Watson, A. (2021) The Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis. Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Lupton, D. (2022) COVID Societies: Theorising the Coronavirus Crisis. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Lupton, D. (2023) The Internet of Animals: Human-Animal Relationships in the Digital Age. Cambridge: Polity.
  • Lupton, D. (2023) Risk (revised 3rd edition). Abingdon: Routledge.

Edited books

  • Lupton, D. and Feldman, Z. (2020) (editors) Digital Food Cultures. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Lupton, D. and Willis, K. (2021) (editors) The COVID-19 Crisis: Social Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Lupton, D. and Leahy, D. (editors) (2022) Creative Approaches to Health Education: New Ways of Thinking, Making, Doing, Teaching and Learning. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Pink, S., Berg, M., Lupton, D. and Ruckenstein, M. (editors) (2022) Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies. Abingdon: Routledge.

Book chapters

  • Lupton, D. (2018) Lively data, social fitness and biovalue: the intersections of health self-tracking and social media. In Burgess, J., Marwick, A. and Poell, T. (eds), The Sage Handbook of Social Media. London: Sage, pp. 562-578.
  • Lupton, D. (2018) Digital health and health care. In Scambler, G. (ed), Sociology as Applied to Health and Medicine, 2nd Houndmills: Palgrave, pp. 277-290.
  • Lupton, D. and Smith, GJD. (2018) ‘A much better person’: the agential capacities of self-tracking practices. In Ajana, B. (ed), Metric Culture: Ontologies of Self-Tracking Practices. London: Emerald Publishing, pp. 57-75.
  • Lupton, D. (2018) 3D printing technologies: a third wave perspective. In Michael Filimowicz, M. and Tzankova, V. (eds), New Directions in Third Wave HCI (Volume 1, Technologies). Springer: London, pp. 89-104.
  • Lupton, D. (2019) Vitalities and visceralities: alternative body/food politics in digital media. In Phillipov, M. and Kirkwood, K. (eds), Alternative Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream. Routledge: London, pp. 151-168.
  • Lupton, D. (2019) Digital sociology. In Germov, J. and Poole, M. (eds), Public Sociology: An Introduction to Australian Society, 4th St Leonards: Allen & Unwin., pp. 475-492.
  • Lupton, D. (2020) Understanding digital food cultures. In Lupton, D. and Feldman, Z. (eds), Digital Food Cultures. London: Routledge, pp. 1-16.
  • Lupton, D. (2020) Carnivalesque food videos: excess, gender and affect on YouTube. In Lupton, D. and Feldman, Z. (eds), Digital Food Cultures. London: Routledge, pp. 35-49.
  • Lupton, D. (2020) Wearable devices: sociotechnical imaginaries and agential capacities. In Pedersen, I. and Iliadis, A. (eds), Embodied Technology: Wearables, Implantables, Embeddables, Ingestibles. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, pp. 49-69.
  • Lupton, D. (2020) Vital materialism and the thing-power of lively digital data. In Leahy, D., Fitzpatrick, K. and Wright, J. (eds), Social Theory, Health and Education. London: Routledge, pp. 71-80.
  • Lupton, D. (2020) Caring dataveillance: women’s use of apps to monitor pregnancy and children. In Green, L., Holloway, D., Stevenson, K., Leaver, T. and Haddon, L. (eds), The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children. London: Routledge, pp. 393-402.
  • Lupton, D. (2020) The sociology of mobile apps. In Rohlinger, D. and Sobieraj, S. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media. New York: Oxford, online first.
  • Lupton, D. (2021) Self-tracking. In Kennerly, M., Frederick, S. and Abel, J.E. (eds), Information: Keywords. Columbia University Press, pp, 187-198.
  • Lupton, D. (2021) Afterword: future methods for digital food studies. In Leer, J. and Krogager, S.G.S. (eds), Research Methods in Digital Food Studies. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 222-227.
  • Lupton, D. and Willis, K. (2021) COVID Society: introduction to the book. In Lupton, D. and Willis, K. (eds), The COVID-19 Crisis: Social Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 3-13.
  • Lupton, D. (2021) Contextualising COVID-19. In Lupton, D. and Willis, K. (eds), The COVID-19 Crisis: Social Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 14-24.
  • Lupton, D. and Leahy, D. (2022) Thinking, making, doing, teaching and learning: bringing creative methods into health education. In Lupton, D. and Leahy, D. (eds), Creative Approaches to Health Education: New Ways of Thinking, Making, Doing, Teaching and Learning. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Lupton, D. (2022) Data: the futures of personal data. In The Routledge Handbook of Social Futures. London: Routledge, pp. 117-125.
  • Lupton, D. (2022) Digital health. In Monaghan, L. and Gabe, J. (eds), Key Concepts in Medical Sociology, 3rd edition. London: Sage, pp. 241-246.
  • Lupton, D. (2022) The sociomaterial nature of the body and medicine. In Scrimshaw, S., Lane, S., Rubenstein, R. and Fisher, J. (eds), Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, 2nd edition. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, pp. 103-121.
  • Lupton, D. and Southerton, C. (2022) Beyond ‘wicked Facebook’: a vital materialism perspective. Emotional Landscapes, Dystopia and Future Imaginaries. In McKenzie, J. and Patulny, R. (eds). Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 34-51.
  • Lupton, D., Clare, M. and Southerton, C. (2022) Digitized and datafied embodiment: a more-than-human approach. In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism, edited by Herbrechter, S., Callus, I., Rossini, M., Grech, M., de Bruin-Molé, M. and Müller, C.J. Houndmills: Palgrave, pp. 1-23.
  • Pink, S., Ruckenstein, M., Berg, M. and Lupton, D. (2022) Everyday automation: setting a research agenda. In Pink, S., Berg, M., Lupton, D. and Ruckenstein, M. (eds), Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-19.
  • Lupton, D. (2022) The quantified pandemic: digitised surveillance, containment and care in response to the COVID-19 crisis. In Pink, S., Berg, M., Lupton, D. and Ruckenstein, M. (eds), Everyday Automation: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 59-72.
  • Southerton, C., Clark, M., Watson, A. and Lupton, D. (2022) The futures of qualitative research in the COVID-19 era: experimenting with creative and digital methods. In Matthewman, S. (ed), A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 155-174.
  • Lupton, D. (2022) Health zines: hand-made and heart-felt. In The Routledge Handbook of Health and the Media, edited by Lester Friedman and Therese Jones. New York: Routledge, pp. 65-76.
  • Pavlidis, A., Fullagar, S., Nichols, E., Lupton, D., Forsdike, K. and Thorpe, H. (2023) Experimenting with research creation during a pandemic: making time capsules with girls in sport. In Andrews, D., Thorpe, H. and Newman, J. (eds), Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times: COVID Assemblages. Cham: Springer, pp. 241-267.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  • Lupton, D. (2018) Towards design sociology. Sociology Compass, 12(1), online, available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12546/full
  • Lupton, D., Pink, S., Heyes Labond and Sumartojo, S. (2018) Personal data contexts, data sense and self-tracking cycling. International Journal of Communication, 11, online, available at http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/5925/2258
  • Pedersen, S. and Lupton, D. (2018) ‘What are you feeling right now?’ Communities of maternal feeling on Mumsnet. Emotion, Space & Society, 26, 57-63.
  • Lupton, D. and Turner, B. (2018) ‘I can’t get past the fact that it is printed: consumer attitudes to 3D printed food. Food, Culture and Society, 21(3), 402-418.
  • Lupton, D. (2018) ‘I just want it to be done, done, done!’ Food tracking apps, affects and agential capacities. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2(2), online, available at http://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/2/2/29/htm
  • Lupton, D. (2018) How do data come to matter? Living and becoming with personal data. Big Data & Society, 5(2), online, available at https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951718786314
  • Lupton, D. and Maslen, S. (2018) The more-than-human sensorium: sensory engagements with digital health technologies. The Senses and Society, 13(2), 190—202.
  • Thomas, G., Lupton, D. and Pedersen, S. (2018) ‘The appy for a happy pappy’: expectant fatherhood and pregnancy apps. Journal of Gender Studies, 27(7), 759-770.
  • Maslen, S. and Lupton, D. (2018) “You can explore it more online”: a qualitative study on Australian women’s use of online health and medical information. BMC Health Services, 18(1) online, available at https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-018-3749-7
  • Lupton, D. and Turner, B. (2018) Food of the future? Consumer responses to the idea of 3D printed meat and insect-based products. Food and Foodways, 26(4), 269-289.
  • Lupton, D. and Maslen, S. (2019) How women use digital technologies for health: qualitative interview and focus group study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(1), online, available at https://www.jmir.org/2019/1/e11481/
  • Salmela, T., Valtonen, A. and Lupton, D. (2019) The affective circle of harassment and enchantment: reflections on the ŌURA ring as an intimate research device. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(3), 260-270.
  • Lupton, D. (2019) The thing-power of the human-app health assemblage: thinking with vital materialism. Social Theory & Health, 17(2), 125-139.
  • Lupton, D. (2019) Towards a more-than-human analysis of digital health: inspirations from feminist new materialism. Qualitative Health Research, 29(14), 1998-2009.
  • Lupton, D. and Leahy, D. (2019) Reimagining digital health education: the critical pedagogical and research possibilities of storyboarding. Health Educational Journal, 78(6), 633-646.
  • Lupton, D. (2019) ‘It’s made me a lot more aware’: a new materialist analysis of health self-tracking. Media International Australia, 17(1), 66-79.
  • Lupton, D. (2019) ‘I’d like to think you could trust the government, but I don’t really think we can’: Australian women’s attitudes to and experiences of My Health Record. Digital Health, 5, online, available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2055207619847017
  • Fitzpatrick, K., Leahy, D., Webber, M., Gilbert, J., Lupton, D. and Aggleton, P. (2019) Critical health education studies: reflections on a new conference and this themed symposium. Health Education Journal, 78(6), 621-632.
  • Lupton, D. (2019) Towards a more-than-human approach to neurotechnologies. American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, 10(4), 174-176.
  • Maslen, S. and Lupton, D. (2019) ‘Keeping it real’: women’s enactments of lay health knowledges and expertise on Facebook. Sociology of Health & Illness, 41(8), 1637-1651.
  • Maslen, S. and Lupton, D. (2020) Enacting chronic illness with and through digital media: a feminist new materialist approach. Information, Communication and Society, 23(11), 1640-1654.
  • Lupton, D. (2020) Data mattering and self-tracking: what can personal data do? Continuum, 34(1), 1-13.
  • Lupton, D. (2020) ‘Better understanding about what’s going on’: young Australians’ use of digital technologies for health and fitness. Sport, Education and Society, 25(1), 1-13.
  • Lupton, D. (2020) The story completion method and more-than-human theory: finding and using health information. Sage Research Methods Cases, available online at https://methods.sagepub.com/case/story-completion-method-more-than-human-theory-health-information
  • Lupton, D. (2020) The Internet of Things: social dimensions. Sociology Compass, 14, available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/soc4.12770
  • Lupton, D. (2020) Teaching and learning guide – The Internet of Things: social dimensions. Sociology Compass, 14, available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12777
  • Lupton, D. (2020) Thinking with care about personal data profiling: a more-than-human approach. International Journal of Communication, 14, 3165-3183, available online at https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/13540
  • Lupton, D. and Watson, A. (2020) Towards a more-than-human digital data studies: developing research-creation methods. Qualitative Research, online first. doi:org/10.1177/1468794120939235
  • Lupton, D. (2020) A more-than-human approach to bioethics: the example of digital health. Bioethics, 34(9), 969-976.
  • Lupton, D. (2020) Australian women’s use of health and fitness apps and wearable devices: a feminist new materialism analysis. Feminist Media Studies, 20(7), 993-998.
  • Lupton, D. (2021) Young people’s use of digital health in the Global North: narrative review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, available online at https://www.jmir.org/2021/1/e18286/
  • Lupton, D. (2021) ‘Not the real me’: social imaginaries of personal data profiling. Cultural Sociology, 15(1), 3-21.
  • Lupton, D. and Southerton, C. (2021) The thing-power of the Facebook assemblage: why do users stay on the platform? Journal of Sociology, online first. org/10.1177/1440783321989456
  • Watson, A. and Lupton, D. (2021) Tactics, affects and agencies in digital privacy narratives: a story completion study. Online Information Review, 45(1), 138-156.
  • Watson, A., Lupton, D. and Michael, M. (2021) Enacting intimacy and sociality at a distance in the COVID-19 crisis: the sociomaterialities of home-based communication technologies. Media International Australia, 178(1), 136-150.
  • Lupton, D. (2021) ‘Things that matter’: poetic inquiry and more-than-human health literacy. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(2), 267-282.
  • Lupton, D. (2021) ‘The internet both reassures and terrifies’: exploring the more-than-human worlds of health information using the story completion method. Medical Humanities, 47(1), 68-77.
  • Lupton, D. (2021) ‘Next generation PE?’ A sociomaterial approach to digitised health and physical education. Sport, Education and Society, online first dorg/10.1080/13573322.2021.1890570
  • Lupton, D. (2021) ‘Honestly no, I’ve never looked at it’: teachers’ understandings and practices related to students’ personal data in digitised health and physical education. Learning, Media and Technology, online first org/10.1080/17439884.2021.1896541
  • Lupton, D. (2021) ‘Sharing is caring’: Australian self-trackers’ concepts and practices of personal data sharing and privacy. Frontiers in Digital Health, 3(15). Available online at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2021.649275/full
  • Hjorth, L. and Lupton, D. (2021) Digitised caring intimacies: more-than-human intergenerational care in Japan. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 24(4), 584-602.
  • Lupton, D. and Watson, A. (2021) Towards more-than-human digital data studies: developing research-creation methods. Qualitative Research, 21(4), 463-480.
  • Watson, A., Lupton, D. and Michael, M. (2021) The COVID digital home assemblage: transforming the home into a work space during the crisis. Convergence, 27(5), 1207-1221.
  • Downing, L., Marriott, H. and Lupton, D. (2021) ‘Ninja levels of focus’: therapeutic holding environments and the affective atmospheres of telepsychology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emotion, Space & Society, 40. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100824
  • Clark, M. and Lupton, D. (2021) Pandemic fitness assemblages: the sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis. Convergence, 27(5), 1222-1237.
  • The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world. Kickbusch, I., Piselli, D., Agrawal, A., Balicer, R., Banner, O., Adelhardt, M., Capobianco, E., Fabian, C., Singh Gill, A., Lupton, D., Medhora, R. P., Ndili, N., Ryś, A., Sambuli, N., Settle, D., Swaminathan, S., Morales, J. V., Wolpert, M., Wyckoff, A. W., Xue, L., Bytyqi, A., Franz, C., Gray, W., Holly, L., Neumann, M., Panda, L., Smith, R. D., Georges Stevens, E. A., & Wong, B. L. H. (2021) The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world. The Lancet. Available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673621018249
  • Lupton, D. (2021) ‘All at the tap of a button’: mapping the food app landscape. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 24(6), 1360-1381.
  • Petrie, K., Deady, M., Lupton, D., Crawford, J., Boydell, K. and Harvey. S. (2021) ‘The hardest job I’ve ever done’: a qualitative exploration of the factors affecting junior doctors’ mental health and wellbeing during medical training in Australia. BMC Health Services. Available online at https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-021-07381-5
  • Lupton, D. and Lewis, S. (2022) ‘The day everything changed’: Australians’ COVID-19 risk narratives. Journal of Risk Research, 25(10), 1147-1160.
  • Lupton, D. (2022) ‘Next generation PE?’ A sociomaterial approach to digitised health and physical education. Sport, Education and Society, 27(5), 516-528.
  • Lupton, D. and Lewis, D. (2022) Coping with COVID-19: the sociomaterial dimensions of living with pre-existing mental health illness during the early stages of the coronavirus crisis. Emotion, Space & Society, 42. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100860
  • Lupton, D. and Lewis, S. (2022) Sociomaterialities of health, risk and care during COVID-19: experiences of Australians living with a medical condition. Social Science & Medicine, 293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114669 
  • Watson, A. and Lupton, D. (2022) Remote fieldwork in homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: video-call ethnography and map drawing methods. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2022.2043774
  • Watson, A. and Lupton, D. (2022) ‘What happens next? Using the story completion method to surface the affects and materialities of digital privacy dilemmas. Sociological Research Online, 27(3), 690-706.
  • Lupton, D. and Watson, A. (2022) Research-creations for speculating about digitised automation: bringing creative writing prompts and vital materialism into the sociology of futures. Qualitative Inquiry, 28(7), 754-766.
  • Lupton, D. (2022) Understandings and practices related to risk, immunity and vaccination during the Delta variant COVID-19 outbreak in Australia: an interview study. Vaccine: X, Available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2022.100183
  • Rich, E. and Lupton, D. (2022) Rethinking digital pedagogies: how sociomaterial relations shape English secondary students’ digital health practices. Social Science & Medicine, 311. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115348
  • Lupton, D. (2022) From human-centric digital health to digital One Health: crucial new directions for planetary health. Digital Health, 8. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076221129103
  • Lupton, D. (2022) Socio-spatialities and affective atmospheres of COVID-19: a visual essay. Thesis Eleven, 171(1), 36-
  • Baraitser, P. and Lupton, D. (2023) Photodiagnosis of genital herpes and warts: a sociomaterial perspective on users’ experiences of online sexual health care. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 25(2), 192-205.
  • Watson, A., Lupton, D. and Michael, M. (2023) The presence and perceptibility of personal digital data: findings from a participant map drawing method. Visual Studies, 38(3-4), 594-607.
  • Clark, M. and Lupton, D. (2023) The materialities and embodiments of mundane software: exploring how apps come to matter in everyday life. Online Information Review, 47(2), 398-413.
  • Watson, A., Wozniak-O’Connor, V. and Lupton, D. (2023) Health information in creative translation: establishing a collaborative project of research and exhibition making. Health Sociology Review, 32(1), 42-59.
  • Lupton, D. (2023) Attitudes to COVID-19 vaccines among Australians during the Delta variant wave: a qualitative interview study. Health Promotion International, 38(1). Available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac192
  • Lupton, D. and Lewis, D. (2023) Australians’ experiences of COVID-19 during the early months of the crisis: a qualitative interview study. Frontiers in Public Health (11). Available online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1092322
  • McLean, J., Southerton, C. and Lupton, D. (2023) Young people and TikTok use in Australia: digital geographies of care in popular culture. Social & Cultural Geography, online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2023.2230943
  • Butler, E. and Lupton, D. (2023) Bubbles, fortresses and rings of steel: risk and socio-spatialities in Australians’ accounts of border controls during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social & Cultural Geography, online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2023.2240290
  • Lupton, D., Noremberg Schubert, Luz David, M.M., Coelho de Oliveira, D. Arthur Saldanha dos Santos, D.A. (2023) Entrevista com Deborah Lupton. Revista Cadernos de Campo, 23(1). Available online at https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/cadernos/article/view/18350

  • Lupton, D., Wozniak-O’Connor, V., Rose, M. and Watson, A. (2023) More-than-human wellbeing: materialising the relations, affects, and agencies of health, kinship and care. M/C Journal. Available online at https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/2976
  • Boydell, K. and Lupton, D. (2023) Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty. Medical Humanities, online ahead of print. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-012768    
  • Lupton, D. (2023) Sociocultural dimensions of health: contributions to studies on risk, digital sociology, and disinformation. Reciis: Revista Electronica de Comunicacao Informacao & Inovacao em Saude. 17(4). Available online at https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v17i4.4036

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