164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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Wearable devices are being used by an increasing number of elite-level sports teams to manage and control the health, performance, and productivity of their athletes. Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary resources, Wearable Technology in Elite Sport reveals how wearable devices are used to quantify athletic bodies in ways that have a number of undesirable consequences for the embodied... Read more
1. Elite sport and the cult of measurement
2. Datafication and the cultivation of the neoliberal subject
3. Producing data
4. Exploring the representation and enactment of wearable data
5. Sensing data: Navigating an algorithmic world
6. The social and ethical implications of excessive datafication
Biography
John Toner, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Coaching and Performance in the Department of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences at the University of Hull, UK.
