Archive - Digital Minds & Madness

Special announcement: Digital Futures in Mind Report

New report on technological experiments in mental health

Sep 12, 2022 •

July 2022

List #21 - Riding the Waves of Algorithmic Accountability in Online Mental Health and Crisis Support

From around the web… 📱 A webinar: Two Waves of Algorithmic Accountability for Mental Health Apps, Centre de Recherche en Droit, Téchnologie et Société…

Jul 1, 2022 •

April 2022

List #20 - 'Psychodigitalisation' of global crisis or 'emerging investment opportunity in Brain Capital'?

After a brief summer hiatus, some materials that may be of interest for reflecting on technological experiments in mental healthcare & crisis support…

Apr 1, 2022 •

August 2021

List #19 - A.I. can't detect our emotions but the industry for it is booming

Things I’ve been reading around the web… 🖥 A.I. Can’t Detect Our Emotions A conversation with the professor who just turned down a $60,000 grant from…

Aug 27, 2021 •

May 2021

List #18 - Diving into the Vastaamo fiasco, digital peer support + more

Things I’ve been reading around the web… …in news 💻 They Told Their Therapists Everything. Hackers Leaked It All, William Ralston, WIRED (5 April 2021…

May 28, 2021 •

April 2021

List #17 - AI predicts distress, World Economic Forum predicts expansion

Things I’ve been reading around the web… 🟦 An AI Used Facebook Data to Predict Mental Illness, Grace Huckins,WIRED(Dec 14th 2020) ⏲ Science Plays the…

Apr 30, 2021 •

February 2021

List #16 - Regulating "neurointerventions", skin patches and monitored teens

...plus a PhD scholarship announcement

Feb 26, 2021 •

January 2021

List #15 - AI, Emotion Recognition and the "Friend" of Millions of Chinese

Newsletter #15 From around the web… 😶 Emotional Entanglement: China’s emotion recognition market and its implications for human rights, Article 19…

Jan 29, 2021 •

December 2020

List #14 - Amazon Pharmacy, Human Virtuality and Digital Life

Is all technology Pygmalion?

Dec 18, 2020 •

October 2020

List #13 - 'To Chat, or Bot to Chat, Just the First Question'

Plus, the making of the "potentially-ill digital subject"...

Oct 30, 2020 •

September 2020

List #12 - Data-for-Service and Robots in Care Homes

What am I reading? ⚖ Machines can spot mental health issues—if you hand over your personal data, David Adam, MIT Technology Review (13 Aug 2020…

Sep 18, 2020 •

August 2020

List #11: Psychology and Surveillance Capitalism, & the Digital Future of Mental Healthcare

What am I reading? 💊The digital future of mental healthcare and its workforce: a report on a mental health stakeholder engagement to inform the Topol…

Aug 7, 2020 •

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