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 ‘self tracking’
Beyond the ‘self-tracking’ craze: Towards a true technological enhancement of human intelligence
This mini-essay forms the basis of my contribution to the ‘self-tracking and the emergence of hybrid beings’ panel at the University of Liverpool’s Being Human Festival on 10 December 2015. The reader will see that I’m not especially enamored by… 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 ›
‘Eating’ digital data and our differing data tastes
An interesting post on Deborah Lupton’s blog considering digital data as something we consume. I’m not persuaded by the bulk of the argument, even though it’s thought provoking: Mol points out that once a foodstuff has been swallowed, the human… Read More ›
Fitcoin, exercise and the logic of capital
Would you exercise for money? A new online currency system has been developed to reward people for their exercise activity. Fitcoin is a “cryptocurrency” like Bitcoin (currently it actually uses Bitcoin but there are plans to develop their own) which has… 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 ›
The artistic opportunities afforded by self-tracking technology
A lot of work went into these – running drawing. (HT Kirsty Lohman) Another long run completed. Photograph: Running Drawing/Claire Wyckoff
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
CfP: Quantified Self and Self-Tracking
In the last few years there has been a significant increase in public and academic interest in the use of devices or techniques for the accumulation, aggregation and analysis of personal data. Apps for mobile phones such asTrack My Run and… Read More ›
Proposal: Quantified Self Research Network
This post is a very tentative first step towards something which I hope others would share my enthusiasm for. I first encountered Quantified Self via Caspar Addyman who I worked with on Your Brain on Drugs. I had to drop… Read More ›