Bringers of order : wearable technologies and the manufacturing of everyday life /
"Wearable technology, including smartwatches, VR headsets, and body cameras, are often touted as helpful tools that record, produce, and analyze data about daily life to improve our individual habits and health or to solve serious public issues. In this book, James N. Gilmore argues that these...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : bringing order to life
- Health, or : bringing the hospital to the wrist
- Accessibility, or : personalization and the promotion of hearables
- Sport, or : monitoring physical activity on and off the field
- Labor, or : workplace surveillance down to the millisecond
- Law enforcement, or : the opacity of body-worn cameras in upstate South Carolina
- Infrastructure, or : the datafication of Disney World
- Conclusion : culture, or : order as a way of life.