This article builds on Hillcoat-Nallétamby and Phillips' (2011) conceptualization of sociological ambivalence within the relational framework to examine a particular consumption practice, the funeral. We develop understanding of social, cultural and relational issues that arise from the experience associated with funeral-arranging. This is not a voluntary behaviour but one engaged with through ...

We argue that technical features which make aspects of computer network visible can have ambivalent effects for the users. On the one hand they support cooperation among the users, whereas on the other hand these features can be applied to control the users extensively. To examine this ambivalence we present the results of an empirical field study on the usage of networks ́ visibility. Based on ...

This paper examines personal experiences of digital health data on the Danish eHealth platform sundhed.dk. Taking a patient’s view, understands sense-making as an embodied communicative practice. The empirical analysis, consisting 24 purposefully sampled interviews, is brought together with conceptual framework describing and unpacking ambivalences to be found in into themes ambivalence, emotio...