
Quantified
Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life
$70.86
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
8 April 2016
Summary
What is at stake socially, culturally, politically, and economically when we routinely use technology to gather information about our bodies and environments? 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262528757 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262528754 |
| Author: | Dawn Nafus, Mette Kragh-Furbo, Adrian Mackenzie, Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts, Jamie Sherman, Sophie Day, Celia Lury, Gary Wolf, Helen Nissenbaum |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
This is a great book for people interested in digital health and self- and other-tracking and contributes to a growing literature. It is a methodological triumph.
This is a great book for people interested in digital health and self- and other-tracking and contributes to a growing literature. It is a methodological triumph.
—Phoebe Moore, Theory Culture & SocietyAbout The Author
Dawn Nafus
Dawn Nafus is Senior Research Scientist at Intel Labs and the editor of Quantified- Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life (MIT Press).Adrian Mackenzie is Professor of Technological Cultures in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University and the author of Wirelessness- Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures (MIT Press).Maggie Mort is Reader in the Sociology of Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Department of Sociology and Division of Medicine at Lancaster University in the UK.Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication and Computer Science at New York University, where she is Director of the Information Law Institute.Gina Neff is Associate Professor of Communication and Sociology and a senior data scientist at the University of Washington. She is the author of Venture Labor- Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries (MIT Press).Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor and Director of the Evoke Lab at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coauthor (with Susan Leigh Star) of Sorting Things Out- Classification and Its Consequences and the author of Memory Practices in the Sciences, both published by the MIT Press.
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