Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor in the News & Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra, Australia, and the co-leader of the Digital Data & Society Consortium. She is the author/co-author of 16 books, the latest of which are Medicine as Culture, 3rd edition (Sage, 2012), Fat (Routledge, 2013), Risk, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2013), The Social Worlds of the Unborn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Digital Sociology (Routledge, 2015), The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking (Polity, 2016) and Digital Health: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, in press). Her current research interests focus on big data cultures, self-tracking practices, digital food cultures, embodiment and digital media, the digital surveillance of children, digitised academia, and digital health technologies.