Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday LifeDawn Nafus MIT Press, 2016 M04 8 - 243 páginas 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 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. Contributors |
Contenido
I Biosensing and Representation | 1 |
1 Do Biosensors Biomedicalize? Sites of Negotiation in DNABased Biosensing Data Practices | 5 |
Reading the Quantified Self through Walter Benjamin | 27 |
Tracking Persons | 43 |
Reverse Engineering | 67 |
II Institutional Arrangements | 73 |
Health Privacy in a Connected World | 79 |
6 Disruption and the Political Economy of Biosensor Data | 101 |
III Seeing Like a Builder | 157 |
9 Open mHealth and the Problem of Data Interoperability | 161 |
10 Field Notes in Contamination Studies | 169 |
11 Data BioSensing and OtherWorldly Stories from the Cycle Routes of London | 189 |
12 The Data Citizen the Quantified Self and Personal Genomics | 211 |
Epilogue | 227 |
Biographical Sketches | 231 |
237 | |