A really useful resource curated by Deborah Lupton: https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/critical-social-research-on-self-tracking-a-reading-list/
Tag Archive for ‘quantified self’
Digital Health/Digital Capitalism One Day Conference CfP 4th July 2016
Digital Health/Digital Capitalism One Day Conference CfP 4th July 2016 Digital technologies have had a profound impact on the ways in which people live their lives, relate to one another and think about themselves and their capacities. This event will… Read More ›
Digital Health/Digital Capitalism One Day Conference CfP 4th July 2016
Digital technologies have had a profound impact on the ways in which people live their lives, relate to one another and think about themselves and their capacities. This event will bring together scholars who are interested in the impacts… Read More ›
What kind of machines do self-tracking devices make us into?
Sociologists have been telling us for a long time that the use of new technologies does more than merely give us new potential functions but actually impacts on our subjectivity; it changes who we think we are what we think… Read More ›
2015 Quantified Self Europe Conference – Sept 18-19, Amsterdam
A reminder from QS Labs: I wanted to send along a quick email to invite you all to the 2015 Quantified Self Europe Conference. On September 18th and 19th we’re continuing our tradition of community-supported, peer-to-peer learning conferences with our fourth… Read More ›
CfP: The Role of Quantified Self for Personal Healthcare
######### QSPH’15, Washington D.C., USA, November, 2015 ########### Second International Workshop on The Role of Quantified Self for Personal Healthcare (QSPH’15) Workshop held in conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2015 in Washington D.C., USA http://qsph-workshop.dai-labor.de ####################################################### The aims of the workshop… Read More ›
Call for papers: Medicine, Health and Self-Tracking
This special issue focuses on the topic of self-tracking as it is used for health and medical purposes. Self-tracking has recently been incorporated into a range of health and medical domains. These include voluntary health promotion and fitness monitoring, fertility,… Read More ›
Freedom from self-imposed metrified tyranny: some thoughts on the moral psychology of self-tracking
A couple of years ago I purchased a Nike Fuel Band, partly out of a curiosity driven by my nascent interest in self-tracking and partly out of a desire to rationalise not going to the gym. If I was planning… Read More ›
CfP: The Role of Quantified Self for Personal Healthcare
######### QSPH’15, Washington D.C., USA, November, 2015 ########### Second International Workshop on The Role of Quantified Self for Personal Healthcare (QSPH’15) Workshop held in conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2015 in Washington D.C., USA http://qsph-workshop.dai-labor.de ####################################################### The aims of the workshop… Read More ›
PhD Studentship: Gender, Bodies and Technology, Engendered bodily practices and self-monitoring in the digital age
http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/research-studentships-and-fees-only-bursaries/ Title: Gender, Bodies and Technology, Engendered bodily practices and self-monitoring in the digital age There has been a significant uptake in the use of ‘body tracking’, m-health and e-health devices in recent years. There are many body tracking apps… Read More ›
Sociological Perspectives on Digital Health
This seminar organised by the Quantified Self Research Network brought together a range of thinkers to discuss sociological perspectives on digital health. Dr. Conor Farrington (Cambridge) – The Sensemaking Spectrum: Understanding User Interactions with the Artificial Pancreas The artificial pancreas (AP) is a… Read More ›
CfP: 4S Annual Meeting – Open Panel Exploring self-tracking: between submission and resistance
An important event for anyone interested in self-tracking: CALL FOR SUBMISSION The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) invites submissions for its 2015 conference in Denver, Colorado, November 11-14. There are numerous open panels to which submissions are invited,… Read More ›
The exciting future of governance
Background to the video here. I have to admit that I’d assumed this sort of thing was at least a decade away. What’s so creepy about this (beyond “because of this your feeling of safety increased”) is how ‘joined up’ the proposed monitoring… Read More ›
Self-tracking and social control: what would techno-fascism look like?
Earlier this week I finally bought the Jawbone Up24 after weeks of deliberation. I’d got bored with the Nike Fuel Band, losing interest in the opaque ‘fuel points’ measurement and increasingly finding it to be an unwelcome presence on my wrist…. Read More ›
Self-tracking, governmentality and social control
This post on Org Theory, which makes reference to a superb New Yorker article about the Fitbit, nicely captures an ambivalence about self-tracking which I share: In fact, there is a whole Quantified Self movement, complete with conferences and meet-up groups. One obvious take on this is that we’re… Read More ›
Self-tracking and data sensibilities
I recently blogged about the idea of the ‘qualified self’ and why I’m drawn to this phrase. As sometimes happens, I wasn’t being enormously serious when I started writing the post but had argued myself into a new position by the… Read More ›
Qualitative self-tracking and the Qualified Self
The idea of “qualitative self-tracking” is one that I’ve mentioned on my blog before. It’s a term in which I think but it’s also one that I’m aware of being unclear about exactly what I mean by it. Searching google… Read More ›
Two upcoming quantified self special issues
Sensor Informatics and Quantified Self Deadline: 18 December 2014 Preventing disease through promotion of healthy lifestyle choice is a potentially cost-effective approach to modern healthcare challenges. Choices such as diet, physical activity, sleep, smoking and alcohol, have all been associated with… Read More ›
“Worker analytics” – Taylorization 2.0?
This article on Pop Matters is an interesting critique of the growing trend towards ‘Worker analytics’ and how it meshes with productivity culture to expand the scope of workplace control: Both Taylorism and People Analytics are largely based on the… Read More ›
DEADLINE TOMORROW – CfP: Quantified Self Research Network, March 25th @SocioWarwick
The next meeting of the Quantified Self Research Network will take place on the 25th March at the University of Warwick from 1pm to 6pm. It’s an informal seminar to present work in progress and is open to all. If you would like to… Read More ›
CfP: Quantified Self Research Network, March 25th
The next meeting of the Quantified Self Research Network will take place on the 25th March at the University of Warwick from 1pm to 6pm. It’s an informal seminar to present work in progress and is open to all. If you would like to… Read More ›
Self-tracking and ‘techorexia’
One of the (many) things which fascinates me about self-quantification tools is their seeming capacity to both increase individual autonomy and extend control over the individual. However my instinctive personal reactions to this tend to be a matter of seeing… Read More ›
CfP: Quantified Self Research Network, March 25th
The next meeting of the Quantified Self Research Network will take place on the 25th March at the University of Warwick from 1pm to 6pm. It’s an informal seminar to present work in progress and is open to all. If you would like to… Read More ›
Digital Sociology at #BritSoc14
Plenary: The Social Life of Digital Methods Deborah Lupton, Evelyn Ruppert, Noortje Marres, Mike Savage and Emma Uprichard Friday 25 April :30-15:00 As an inaugural conference session for the BSA Digital Sociology study group, we propose a round table… Read More ›
CfP: Quantified Self Research Network, March 25th @SocioWarwick
The next meeting of the Quantified Self Research Network will take place on the 25th March at the University of Warwick from 1pm to 6pm. It’s an informal seminar to present work in progress and is open to all. If you would like to… Read More ›
The Quantified Self and Taylorization 2.0
There’s a provocative post on Nick Carr’s blog in which he discusses the potential expansion of self-tracking technology as a mechanism of quantified control: But, as management researcher H. James Wilson reports in the Wall Street Journal, there is one area where self-tracking is beginning to… Read More ›
The academic quantified self
There’s a great post on Deborah Lupton’s blog in which she discusses the academic quantified self. It builds on a recent paper by Roger Burrows, Living with the h-index, in which he explores the implications of the increasing quantification of academic labour… Read More ›
“I’m a cyborg? I thought I was just wearing glasses”: technology, agency and ontology
This is a quick attempt to elaborate on a thought which kept coming back to me during the Quantified Self seminar on Tuesday. It seems obvious to me that one of the key conceptual questions encountered in studying technology which… Read More ›
The Quantified Self Research Network (QS, Self-Tracking and Wearable Computing)
The first meeting of the Quantified Self Research Network took place last week at the University Leeds. This was established by myself and Chris Till in order to help encourage interdisciplinary dialogue amongst people working on different aspects of Quantified… Read More ›
Quantified Self Research Network – Inaugural Event
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (BST) Leeds, United Kingdom At this inaugural event there will be presentations from researchers who have been exploring quantified self or self-tracking either empirically or theoretically which will stimulate discussion… Read More ›