1st Edition
Imagining Personal Data Experiences of Self-Tracking
172 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
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
Biography
Vaike Fors is Associate Professor of Pedagogy at Halmstad University, Sweden.
Sarah Pink is Professor and Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, Australia.
Martin Berg is Associate Professor of Sociology and Media Technology at Malmö University, Sweden.
Tom O'Dell is Professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University, Sweden.
This is a very welcome and timely contribution. Rather than evaluating self- tracking as either empowering or not, it goes into a more nuanced, complex and engaging account of the temporalities of self-tracking technologies. How they are entangled with everyday life, how they participate in different human futures, and how they serve as a tool for learning about ourselves as human beings. Highly needed and highly recommendable! - Dorthe Brogård Kristensen, University of Southern Denmark
