Imagining personal data : experiences of self-tracking / Vaike Fors, Sarah Pink, Martin Berg and Tom O'Dell.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences.0Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagin...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Fors, Vaike (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
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Summary:This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences.0Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we inhabit, experience and imagine our everyday worlds and futures. Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data is emergent, present and characterized by a sense of uncertainty, the authors argue for a new interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of self-tracking, which attends to its past, present and possible future. Building on social science approaches, the book accounts for the concerns of scholars working in design, philosophy and human-computer interaction. It problematizes the body and senses in relation to data and tracking devices, presents an accessible analytical account of the sensory and affective experiences of self-tracking, and questions the status of big data. In doing so it proposes an agenda for future research and design that puts people at its centre
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 161 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-156) and index
ISBN:9781350051409
1350051403
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record