Research Interests
Activism, Digital Sociology, Health, Media, Veganism

Biography

Chris is a sociologist who conducts theoretical and empirical research broadly in the areas of technologies and health and has been vegan since 2016. He is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Leeds Beckett University, Co-editor of the journal Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, a former convenor of the BSA Digital Sociology and Yorkshire Medical Sociology Research Groups, a contributing editor of the Cost of Living Blog and he also blogs at thisisnotasociology.blog. He has been published in academic journals such as Big Data & Society, New Media & Society, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, Technology in Society, Societies, Thesis Eleven and Health Sociology Review.

After previous work on self-tracking, corporate wellness, and social media disinformation he is currently leading a project funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme on vegan social media activism. This is a multi-modal critical discourse analysis of Instagram and TikTok focusing on text, image and audio.

 

Key Publications

• Till, C. 2023. “Spotify as a Technology for Integrating Health, Exercise and Wellness Practices into Financialised Capitalism.” Big Data & Society 10 (2): 1-13.
• Till, C. 2021. “Propaganda through ‘Reflexive Control’ and the Mediated Construction of Reality.” New Media and Society 23 (6): 1362–1378.
• Till, C. 2019. “Creating Automatic Subjects: Corporate Wellness and Self-tracking.” Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 
• Till, C. 2018. “Self-Tracking as the Mobilisation of the Social for Capital Accumulation.” In B. Ajana (ed.) Self-Tracking: Empirical and Philosophical Investigations. London: Palgrave.
• Till, C. 2018. “Commercialising Bodies: The New Corporate Health Ethic of Philanthrocapitalism.” In R. Lynch and C. Farrington Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Quantified Lives and Vital Data Exploring Health and Technology through Personal Medical Devices. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
• Till, C. 2014. “Exercise as Labour: Quantified Self and the Transformation of Exercise into Labour.” Societies 4 (3): 446-462.

 

Contact

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