Imagining Personal Data: Experiences of Self-Tracking

di Vaike Fors (Autore)

Sarah Pink (Autore)

Martin Berg (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021

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.

• Autore: Vaike Fors, Sarah Pink, Martin Berg
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 172 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 258 gr.
• EAN: 9781032082073

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