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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765800403321

Autore

Fors Vaike

Titolo

Imagining personal data : experiences of self-tracking / / Vaike Fors [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

9781003085676

1003085679

9781000182118

1000182118

9781000185294

100018529X

9781350051409

1350051403

Edizione

[1.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

303.4834

Soggetti

Self-monitoring - Social aspects

Information technology - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2020 by Bloomsbury Academic."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Figures Acknowledgements Prologue 1. Self-Tracking in the World 2. Encountering the Temporalities and Imaginaries of Personal Data 3. Ubiquitous Monitoring Technologies in Historical Perspective 4. Algorithmic Imaginations 5. Traces through the Present 6. Anticipatory Data Worlds 7. Personal Data Futures Notes Bibliography Index

Sommario/riassunto

Digital 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.