Data gone wild? The quantified self assemblage, technologies of the self and the value of data
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This document discusses the quantified self movement, which involves self-tracking one's life through digital technologies. It explores how proponents view the body as a machine that can be optimized by collecting data. Key aspects include using data for self-knowledge and improvement, sharing data with others, and visualizing different data sets. Issues around data ownership and control are raised. The document considers whether the quantified self can become a political movement challenging corporate data practices or if there are limits to quantifying oneself.
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Data gone wild? The quantified self assemblage, technologies of the self and the value of data
- 1. Data gone wild? The quantified self assemblage, technologies of the self and the value of data Deborah Lupton, Faculty of Arts & Design, University of Canberra @DALupton
- 3. What is the quantified self? A movement: The Quantified Self A practice: quantifying the self Both involve self-tracking, lifelogging, life hacking: closely monitoring elements of ones life voluntarily We are all becoming quantified selves (including in academia)
- 4. Some quotes from the PBS Data gone wild story Personally, like, my goal is to basically be an optimal human being in every aspect of my life. I can look down at my phone at any point in the day and see, kind of, how stressed I am. You want to be your best self. You want to put your best foot forward. And thats what sharing your data with a few other people does to you.
- 7. The history of the quantified self Term first used in 2007 by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf The Quantified Self website established in 2008 Now over 161 groups in 39 countries The QS term has gradually entered the broader lexicon, particularly since 2012 Term has now come to mean self-tracking and not just membership of the QS movement
- 8. Key elements of QS The body as machine/cyborg body The body as a quantifiable object (emitting digital exhaust) QS as the science of the self Digital technologies provide certainty and objectivity (Computers dont lie)
- 9. Key elements of QS A neoliberalist approach that emphasises self responsibility The entrepreneurial self Self-tracking practices as technologies of the self
- 10. QS and data Data as superior form of knowledge Data as key to personal empowerment/self- knowledge and improvement The importance of sharing ones data with others Show-and-tell important to the QS movement Methods of visualisation also important Bringing different datasets together
- 12. Issues of control & ownership of data Who owns ones personal data? How can they use these data? QS adherents attempt to produce their own customised data assemblages Creativity often involved to collect and represent data Qsers in the vanguard of data activism, but from an individualised viewpoint
- 13. Where to from here? Can Qsers become part of a political movement rather than navel-gazing? Can they challenge the corporatisation of big data/data as surveillance? What are the limits of quantifying the self?
- 14. Data going wild Data liberated from the confining practices of commercial companies Data hactivism queering data Resistant practices of artists and designers
- 16. Artistic provocation: Heather Dewey-Hagborg