Quantified : biosensing technologies in everyday life / edited by Dawn Nafus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nafus, Dawn, editor.

Series:

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biosensors.

Medical instruments and apparatus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Biosensing technologies in everyday life

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2016]

Summary:

Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates, glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, genomes, and microbiomes, and turn them into electronic data. Is this phenomenon empowering, or a new form of social control? Who volunteers to enumerate bodily experiences, and who is forced to do so? Who interprets the resulting data? How does all this affect the relationship between medical practice and self care, between scientific and lay knowledge? Quantified examines these and other issues that arise when biosensing technologies become part of everyday life. The book offers a range of perspectives, with views from the social sciences, cultural studies, journalism, industry, and the nonprofit world. The contributors consider data, personhood, and the urge to self-quantify; legal, commercial, and medical issues, including privacy, the outsourcing of medical advice, and self-tracking as a "paraclinical" practice; and technical concerns, including interoperability, sociotechnical calibration, alternative views of data, and new space for design.

Contents:

Do biosensors biomedicalize? : sites of negotiation in DNA-based biosensing data practices / Mette Kragh-Furbo, Adrian Mackenzie, Maggie Mort, and Celia Roberts

Data in the age of digital reproduction : reading the quantified self through Walter Benjamin / Jamie Sherman

Biosensing : tracking persons / Sophie Day and Celia Lury

The quantified self : reverse engineering / Gary Wolf

Biosensing in context : health privacy in a connected world / Helen Nissenbaum and Heather Patterson

Disruption and the political economy of self-tracking data / Mette Kragh-Furbo, Adrian Mackenzie, Maggie Mort, and Celia Roberts

Deep data : notes on the n of 1 / Dana Greenfield

Consumer health innovation opportunities and privacy challenges : a view from the trenches / Rajiv Mehta

Open mHealth and the problem of data interoperability / Deborah Estrin and Anna de Paula Hanika, with Dawn Nafus

Field notes in contamination studies / Marc Bãhlen

Data, (bio)sensing and (other- )worldly stories from the cycle routes of london / Alex Taylor

The data citizen, the quantified self and personal genomics / Judith Gregory and Geoffrey C. Bowker.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262334556

0262334550

9780262334549

0262334542

OCLC:

961107303