Imagining personal data : experiences of self-tracking / Vaike Fors, Sarah Pink, Martin Berg, Tom O'Dell.

1 Self-Tracking in the World -- 2 Encountering the Temporalities and Imaginaries of Personal Data -- 3 Ubiquitous Monitoring Technologies in Historical Perspective -- 4 Algorithmic Imaginations -- 5 Traces through the Present -- 6 Anticipatory Data Worlds -- 7 Personal Data Futures

"This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we inhabit, experience and imagine our everyday worlds and futures. Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data is emergent, present and characterized by a sense of uncertainty, the authors argue for a new interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of self-tracking, which attends to its past, present and possible future. Building on social science approaches the book accounts for the concerns of scholars working in design, philosophy and human-computer interaction. It problematizes the body and senses in relation to data and tracking devices, presents an accessible analytical account of the sensory and affective experiences of self-tracking, and questions the status of big data. In doing so, the book proposes an agenda for future research and design that puts people at its centre"-- Provided by publisher.