Imagining personal data : experiences of self-tracking /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | "First published 2020 by Bloomsbury Academic." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781003085676 1003085679 9781000185294 100018529X 9781000182118 1000182118 9781000188745 1000188744 1350051381 9781350051386 |