Quantified Bodies : A Design Practice
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 46
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.14361/dcs-2016-0112
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- Digital Culture & Society
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- First page
- 161
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2364-2114
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This article addresses the recent emergence of commercial quantifying health devices known as “self-trackers”. It examines the critical discourses related to nascent self-tracking devices and practices. It argues that the critical understanding of these novel practices are being held back by the limitations of what has already been accepted as new media criticism proper. As such, the article attempts to destabilize this rut in discourses of self-tracking by introducing alternative critical voices drawn from design, philosophy and literature as a way to develop alternative understandings of this under-acknowledged cultural practice.
The insights are grounded within a genealogy of the ‘quantified body’ and situates self-tracking as a thing ‘unknown’ and as a ‘designerly’ practice. Those core tenets have contributed to researchers’ framing self-tracking in similar ways in other peer-reviewed journals in Theory, Culture & Society, Digital Health, and New Media & Society and have made international reach in German-language book publications, including: Psychische Bedeutungen des digitalen Messens, Zählens und Vergleichens (Klett-Cotta) and Self-Tracking: Vermessungspraktiken im Kontext von Quantified Self und Diabetes (Springer).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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