Metric Culture
eBook - ePub

Metric Culture

Ontologies of Self-Tracking Practices

  1. 235 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Metric Culture

Ontologies of Self-Tracking Practices

About this book

We live in a "metric culture" where data, algorithms, and numbers play an unmistakably powerful role in defining, shaping and ruling the world we inhabit. Increasingly, governments across the globe are turning towards metric technologies to find solutions for managing various social domains such as healthcare and education. While private corporations are becoming more and more interested in the collection and analysis of data and metrics for profit generation and service optimisation. What is striking about this metric culture is that not only are governments and private companies the only actors interested in using metrics and data to control and manage individuals and populations, but individuals themselves are now choosing to voluntarily quantify themselves and their lives more than ever before, happily sharing the resulting data with others and actively turning themselves into projects of (self-) governance and surveillance. Metric Culture is also not only about data and numbers alone but links to issues of power and control, to questions of value and agency, and to expressions of self and identity. This book provides a critical investigation into these issues examining what is driving the agenda of metric culture and how it is manifested in the different spheres of everyday life through self-tracking practices. Authors engage with a broad range of topics, examples, geographical contexts, and sites of analysis in order to account for the diversity and hybridity of metric culture and explore its various social, political and ethical implications.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Chapter 1 Introduction: Metric Culture and the Over-examined Life
  4. Chapter 2 Performance Management and the Audited Self
  5. Chapter 3 The Digitisation of Welfare: A Strategy towards Improving Citizensā€™ Self-care and Co-management of Welfare
  6. Chapter 4 ā€˜A Much Better Personā€™: The Agential Capacities of Self-tracking Practices
  7. Chapter 5 Resonating Self-tracking Practices? Empirical Insights into Theoretical Reflections on a ā€˜Sociology of Resonanceā€™
  8. Chapter 6 The 1-Person Laboratory of the Quantified Self Community
  9. Chapter 7 Embodiment and Agency through Self-tracking Practices of People Living with Diabetes
  10. Chapter 8 Doing Calories: The Practices of Dieting Using Calorie Counting App MyFitnessPal
  11. Chapter 9 Sleep App Discourses: A Cultural Perspective
  12. Chapter 10 Academic Metrics and Positioning Strategies
  13. Chapter 11 Real-time Grade Books and the Quantified Student*
  14. Chapter 12 A Quantified Self Report Card: Ethical Considerations of Privacy as Commodity
  15. Chapter 13 The Limits of Ratio: An Analysis of NPM in Sweden Using Nicholas of Cusaā€™s Understanding of Reason
  16. Index