The politics and possibilities of self-tracking technology : data, bodies and design

Collecting data about our lives, our bodies and our behaviours has become a part of everyday practice that promises greater self-awareness, healthier living and increased productivity. This book focuses on the dialectical relationship between users and designers of self-tracking technology to examin...

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Main Author: Jethani, Suneel, (Author)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2021]
Subjects:
Wearable technology > Social aspects.
Wearable technology > Health aspects.
Wearable technology > Design and construction.
Technology & Engineering, Electronics > General.
Technical design.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781800433403
Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 pages)

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245 1 4 |a The politics and possibilities of self-tracking technology :  |b data, bodies and design /  |c Suneel Jethani. 
264 1 |a Bingley, U.K. :  |b Emerald Publishing Limited,  |c [2021] 
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500 |a Includes index. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a part I. Visions : quantified and quantifiable services: chapter 1. The quantified self. chapter 2. The quantifiable self : precision medicine, the quantified "all" and the disappearance of body -- part II. Rules : the embodied practices of self tracking: chapter 3. Lessons from electronic monitoring. chapter 4. Sociometry -- part III. The quantised self : discipline and design: chapter 5. The quantised self. Chapter 6. Conclusion : anticipating the quantised self in design. 
520 |a Collecting data about our lives, our bodies and our behaviours has become a part of everyday practice that promises greater self-awareness, healthier living and increased productivity. This book focuses on the dialectical relationship between users and designers of self-tracking technology to examine how logics of datafication redefine the body. It explores what these emerging relations mean for imagining, designing and analysing sociotechnical systems that bring about self-tracking. Jethani provides a genealogy of self-tracking to situate the notions of quantified and quantifiable selves as problematic data regimes within contemporary digital culture. It charts the origins of self-tracking from within the blueprint of the "Californian Ideology" to a global social movement which now reaches beyond self-experimentation to encompass the wider trajectories of using wearable sensor technology in the neoliberal management of health, wellbeing and productivity. The book reframes and theorises the quantified self by re-examining and developing arguments of how bodies "disappear" (Jewson), are made "docile" (Foucault) and get caught up in "rhythms" (Lefebvre) by datafication. The concept of a "quantised" self is introduced as a means of reading into and exposing the inherent political interests being served when self-tracking technology is introduced into clinical, home and workplace settings. Drawing from case studies of self-tracking in practice, the final chapter sketches the outline of a mutual praxis of critique and design that allows us to reimagine the politics embedded in sociotechnical systems of self-tracking and to consider possibilities of intervention. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
650 0 |a Wearable technology  |x Social aspects. 
650 0 |a Wearable technology  |x Health aspects. 
650 0 |a Wearable technology  |x Design and construction. 
650 7 |a Technology & Engineering, Electronics  |x General.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Technical design.  |2 bicssc 
655 7 |a elektronické knihy  |7 fd186907  |2 czenas 
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776 0 8 |i PDF version:  |z 9781800433380 
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