The Politics and Possibilities of Self-Tracking Technology: Data, Bodies and Design - Hardcover

Jethani, Suneel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1800433395 ISBN 13: 9781800433397

Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Suneel Jethani is a Lecturer in Digital and Social Media at the University of Technology Sydney. He has published work in International Communication Gazette, Communication, Politics & Culture and M/C Journal.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1800433395
• ISBN 13: 9781800433397
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 169
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