TY - BOOK

T1 - Quantified Selves and Statistical Bodies

A2 - Abend, Pablo

A2 - Fuchs, Mathias

A2 - Reichert, Ramón

A2 - Richterich, Annika

A2 - Wenz, Karin

PY - 2016/4/4

Y1 - 2016/4/4

N2 - Contemporary Quantified Self enthusiasts are tempted by the possibilities of the surveyed body. Thus, Joggers can keep track of their accomplishments, snorers can monitor their sleep, and chronically ill patients can re-adjust their medication. “Self-knowledge through numbers” became the mantra of the emerging communities of self-trackers (Lupton 2014), and Quantified Self, lifelogging, and personal informatics are the terms applied to describe the use of digital technology to track physical activity, quantify bodily processes, and monitor the own conduct of life. While pre-digital precursors to the Quantified Self, e.g. the British “mass observation” movement of the 1930s, or what has been described as “direct observations” by Schütz (1964) a.o., have anticipated what now has become a mass phenomenon, critical historical analysis will have to point out similarities and differences between new forms of digitally enhanced practices and their pre-digital precursors. The proclaimed aim has been and remains body management and control through monitoring and feedback with the ambition to transform the body and its activities into numeric representations that can be stored, addressed, visualized, monitored, processed, transmitted, and evaluated in order to deduce knowledge about the body.

AB - Contemporary Quantified Self enthusiasts are tempted by the possibilities of the surveyed body. Thus, Joggers can keep track of their accomplishments, snorers can monitor their sleep, and chronically ill patients can re-adjust their medication. “Self-knowledge through numbers” became the mantra of the emerging communities of self-trackers (Lupton 2014), and Quantified Self, lifelogging, and personal informatics are the terms applied to describe the use of digital technology to track physical activity, quantify bodily processes, and monitor the own conduct of life. While pre-digital precursors to the Quantified Self, e.g. the British “mass observation” movement of the 1930s, or what has been described as “direct observations” by Schütz (1964) a.o., have anticipated what now has become a mass phenomenon, critical historical analysis will have to point out similarities and differences between new forms of digitally enhanced practices and their pre-digital precursors. The proclaimed aim has been and remains body management and control through monitoring and feedback with the ambition to transform the body and its activities into numeric representations that can be stored, addressed, visualized, monitored, processed, transmitted, and evaluated in order to deduce knowledge about the body.

KW - Cultural studies

KW - Quantified Self

KW - Statistical Bodies

KW - Affective Control

KW - Affect Technologies

KW - Digital media

KW - Surveillance Technologies

KW - Life Trackers

KW - Apple Watch

KW - nike+

UR - http://transcript-verlag.de/dcs

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/433864cf-16bb-3692-9108-8b262098c820/

M3 - Special Journal issue

SN - 978-3-8376-3210-1

VL - 2

T3 - Digital Culture and Society

BT - Quantified Selves and Statistical Bodies

PB - transcript Verlag

CY - Bielefeld

ER -