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From Quantified to Qualified Self. A Fictional Dialogue at the Mall

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dc.creatorBelliger, Andréa
dc.creatorKrieger, David J.
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-25T15:11:52Z
dc.date.available2018-09-25T15:11:52Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractQuantifying the self is not enough; numbers and statistics must be interpreted, that is, integrated into networks of identity, society, and meaning. The quantified self must become a “qualified” self if body tracking is to have any impact on our lives and society. Data generated by body tracking in all forms are not merely a passive material for interpretation, they do not merely lie around in databases until something from outside makes meaning out of them. Data become information and flow in global networks. Without access to data, individuals must rely on experts and expert systems. Putting body-related data into the hands of those who are directly concerned makes them responsible for doing something with the data, for interpreting and making use of the data. Interpreting the data of body tracking occurs as networking. It breaks out of the constraints of modern subjectivity as well as paternalistic health care structures and occurs by participation, communication, and transparency, that is, by following “network norms.” Personal informatics and body tracking is a performative enactment of the informational self. The informational self is neither the product of technologies of power (Foucault), but of an “ethical” technology of the self. The self becomes a hub and an agent in the digital network society. Body tracking transforms the opaque and passive body of the pre-digital age into the informational self. Networking is the way in which order – personal, social, and ontological – is constructed in the digital age.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/822
dc.identifier.urihttp://digicults.org/files/2016/03/Andréa-Belliger-and-David-J.-Krieger_2016_From-Quantified-to-Qualified-Self.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3150
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectthe selfen
dc.subjecthealthen
dc.subjectQuantified Selfde
dc.subjectdas Selbstde
dc.subjectGesundheitde
dc.subject.ddcddc:613
dc.subject.personSocrates
dc.subject.personMichel Foucault
dc.titleFrom Quantified to Qualified Self. A Fictional Dialogue at the Mallde
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBelliger, Andréa; Krieger, David J. (2016): From Quantified to Qualified Self. A Fictional Dialogue at the Mall. In: Digital Culture & Society 2 (1), S. 25–40. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/822.
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T02:30:26
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://digicults.org/files/2016/03/Andréa-Belliger-and-David-J.-Krieger_2016_From-Quantified-to-Qualified-Self.pdf
local.source.epage40
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage25
local.source.volume2
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local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/4020754-7
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3236990
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12147

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