By Professor Deborah Lupton

Book Chapters

Lupton D, 1995, 'The Embodied Computer/User', in Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment, SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 97 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446250198.n6

Edited Books

Lupton D, (ed.), 2025, Long COVID and Society: International Perspectives, Springer Nature, Singapore, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-9168-5

Lupton D; Leahy D, (ed.), 2022, Creative Approaches to Health Education: New Ways of Thinking, Making, Doing, Teaching and Learning, Routledge, Abingdon, https://www.routledge.com/Creative-Approaches-to-Health-Education-New-Ways-of-Thinking-Making-Doing/Lupton-Leahy/p/book/9780367648343

Pink S; Berg M; Lupton D; Ruckenstein M, (eds.), 2022, EVERYDAY AUTOMATION: Experiencing and Anticipating Emerging Technologies, Routledge, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003170884

Lupton D; Willis K, 2021, The COVID-19 crisis: Social Perspectives, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003111344

Lupton D; Feldman Z, (ed.), 2020, Digital Food Cultures, Routledge, London, info:YmpNcIkI8CUJ:scholar.google.com

Lupton D; Mewburn I; Thomson P, (eds.), 2018, The Digital Academic: Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education, Routledge, London, https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Digital_Academic.html?id=QRIwDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Lupton D, 2017, Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine Sociological Perspectives, Routledge

Lupton D, (ed.), 2017, Digitised Health, Medicine and Risk, Routledge, London, https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Digitised_Health_Medicine_and_Risk.html?id=1UtWDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Lupton D, (ed.), 2015, Beyond Techno-utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies, MDPI, Basel, https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/125

Lupton D, (ed.), 1999, Risk and Sociocultural Theory: New Directions and Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Risk_and_Sociocultural_Theory.html?id=hyf-YWZleFgC&redir_esc=y

Journal articles

Drysdale K; Lupton D, 2026, 'Public health and community support for prevention of novel viral diseases: a qualitative study with LGBTQIA + people and people with blood-borne viruses', BMC Health Services Research, 26, pp. 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-025-13924-x

Lupton D, 2026, 'Beyond vaccine hesitancy: Australians' attitudes and practices concerning COVID-19 vaccines in 2022.', Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, pp. 13558196261490904, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13558196261490904

Šalamon Š; Kruger A; Lupton D; Pretorius E; Ewing AG; Bar-Yam Y, 2026, 'COVID-19 Is Airborne AIDS: Provocative Oversimplification, Emerging Science, or Something in Between?', Ajpm Focus, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.focus.2025.100458

Lupton D, 2026, 'Generative AI's Impacts on the Environment: What Can Critical Humanities Scholarship Offer Sociological Inquiry?', Sociology Compass, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4.70195

Jayadeva S; Lupton D, 2026, '‘Most People with Long COVID Are Their Own Doctors’: Self-Tracking and Online Patient Groups as Pathways to Challenging Epistemic Injustice', Sociology, 60, pp. 272 - 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380385251351252

Lupton D; Bailey-Charteris B, 2026, '‘You can’t put the cat back in the bag once it's out’: Australians’ understandings, practices and imaginaries concerning generative AI', Big Data and Society, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20539517261442430

Davis MDM; Lupton D; Drysdale K, 2026, '“You Are Not Immune from This Virus” Australian news reporting during the early months of COVID-19', Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 69, pp. 275 - 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2026.a998095

Rousell D; Lupton D, 2026, 'Atmospheric Wellbeing: Sensing the More-Than-Human Dynamics of Air', Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, 26, pp. 3 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15327086251387108

Lupton D; Bailey-Charteris B, 2026, '“Just One Prompt Is Enough to Kill a Tree”: Knowledge and Attitudes Concerning the Environmental Impacts of Generative AI Among Australians', Environmental Communication, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2026.2673346

Rose MC; Lupton D, 2026, 'Crafting Livable Worlds: Sensory, Creative, and Nonhuman Supports in Autistic Adults’ Everyday Lives', Autism in Adulthood, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/25739581261426633

Watson A; Lupton D, 2026, 'Data Feelings: Everyday Affects and Sensory Dimensions of Personal Digital Data', International Journal of Communication, 20, pp. 336 - 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.65476/64k9pt59

Lupton D; Drysdale K, 2026, 'Health biographies: narrative case studies of health, sexualities and inclusion in the pandemic age', Culture Health and Sexuality, ahead-of-print, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2026.2636217

Lupton D; Drysdale K, 2026, 'Immunitary Life in COVID-19 Times: Understandings, Practices and Experiences Among Members of Marginalised Social Groups', Sociology of Health and Illness, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70125

Lupton D, 2026, 'LIVING FUTURES: SHORTCUTS TO A BIG IDEA', Living Futures Shortcuts to A Big Idea, pp. 1 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003726579

Lupton D, 2026, 'Reverse Healthism and Antiscience Healthism: New Modes of Healthism in the Misinformation and COVID-19 Era', Sociology of Health and Illness, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70119

Lupton D, 2026, 'Revisiting critical digital health studies in the age of generative AI: Research in Health and beyond', Health United Kingdom, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13634593261451272

Catherine Rose M; Lupton D, 2026, 'Stimming and support assemblages: autistic improvisation, sensory worlds and wellbeing', Disability and Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2026.2715012

Lupton D, 2025, 'Immunities in the COVID age: a sociomaterial and more-than-human perspective', Social Theory and Health, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41285-025-00224-x

Drysdale K; Lupton D, 2025, 'Immuno-biographies of people living with blood-borne viruses: a timeline interview and narrative case study approach', Ssm Qualitative Research in Health, 8, pp. 100575, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100575

Salamon S; Ewing A; Bar-Yam Y; Lupton D; Pretorius E; Kruger A, 2025, 'The Long-Term Immune Effects of COVID — A Warning We’ve Seen Before.', , 6, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.59454/whn-2510-604

Lupton D; Drysdale K, 2025, 'Immune logics, immune selves and immunoprivilege in the COVID era: Perspectives from marginalised social groups', Social Science and Medicine, 383, pp. 118481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118481

Kolehmainen M; Lupton D, 2025, 'Teletherapy Matters – Mental health and materialities of care in domestic more-than-digital assemblages', Social Science and Medicine, 383, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118418

Lupton D, 2025, 'Towards a digital planetary health perspective: generative AI and the digital determinants of health', Health Promotion International, 40, pp. daaf153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf153

Lupton D; Whitten T; Tay AK; Beek K; Green M; Hassoun F; Moussa B; Silove D; Rees S, 2025, 'Mental health and psychosocial factors predicting concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine among refugee background and Australian-born women', Vaccine, 58, pp. 127251 - 127251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127251

Lupton D; Watson A; Wozniak-O'Connor V, 2025, 'It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information', Visual Studies, 40, pp. 227 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2316132

Jayadeva S; Lupton D, 2025, '‘A gift and a curse’: the benefits and limitations of self-tracking Long COVID', Information Communication and Society, 28, pp. 2851 - 2867, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2483834

Jowsey T; Braun V; Clarke V; Lupton D; Fine M, 2025, 'We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research', Qualitative Inquiry, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778004251401851

Jandrić P; Manchester H; Ross J; Hayes S; Macgilchrist F; Green BJ; Gómez DL; Shankar K; Lupton D, 2025, 'Book Review Symposium for Juliane Jarke and Jo Bates (Eds.). (2024). Dialogues in Data Power: Shifting Response-Abilities in a Datafied World', Postdigital Science and Education, 7, pp. 1508 - 1523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42438-024-00534-9

Lupton D, 2024, 'COVID futures: Social imaginaries of post-pandemic lives in Australia', Futures, 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2024.103470

Lupton D, 2024, 'Towards a gerontology of everything: A more-than-human perspective', Journal of Aging Studies, 71, pp. 101278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101278

Greenhalgh T; MacIntyre CR; Baker MG; Bhattacharjee S; Chughtai AA; Fisman D; Kunasekaran M; Kvalsvig A; Lupton D; Oliver M; Tawfiq E; Ungrin M; Vipond J, 2024, 'Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review', Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 37, pp. e00124 - e00123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

Lupton D; Southerton C, 2024, '#ActuallyAutistic: Competing Cultures of Expertise and Knowledge in Relation to Autism and ADHD Self-Diagnosis on TikTok', Historical Social Research, 49, pp. 188 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.12759/hsr.49.2024.29

Butler E; Lupton D, 2024, 'Bubbles, fortresses and rings of steel: risk and socio-spatialities in Australians’ accounts of border controls during the COVID-19 pandemic', Social and Cultural Geography, 25, pp. 833 - 851, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2023.2240290

Butler E; Lupton D, 2024, 'COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities', Sociology of Health and Illness, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13857

McLean J; Southerton C; Lupton D, 2024, 'Young people and TikTok use in Australia: digital geographies of care in popular culture', Social and Cultural Geography, 25, pp. 795 - 813, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2023.2230943

Boydell K; Lupton D, 2023, 'Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty', Medical Humanities, 50, pp. 52 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-012768

Lupton D, 2023, 'Sociocultural dimensions of health: contributions to studies on risk, digital sociology, and disinformation', Revista Eletrônica de Comunicação, Informação & Inovação em Saúde, 17, pp. 924 - 937, http://dx.doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v17i4.4036

Watson A; Lupton D; Michael M, 2023, 'The presence and perceptibility of personal digital data: findings from a participant map drawing method', Visual Studies, 38, pp. 594 - 607, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2022.2043774

Lupton D; Wozniak-O'Connor V; Rose MC; Watson A, 2023, 'More-than-Human Wellbeing: Materialising the Relations, Affects, and Agencies of Health, Kinship, and Care', M/C Journal, 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2976

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