| Title | : | Imagining Personal Data |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Vaike Fors, Sarah Pink, Martin Berg & Tom O'Dell |
| Release | : | 2020-05-04 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Anthropology, Books, Nonfiction, Social Science |
| Size | : | 4599227 |
| 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. |
