Quantified

<b>What is at stake socially culturally politically and economically when we routinely use technology to gather information about our bodies and environments? </b><p>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? <i>Quantified</i> examines these and other issues that arise when biosensing technologies become part of everyday life.</p><p>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.</p><p><b>Contributors<br></b>Marc Böhlen Geoffrey C. Bowker Sophie Day Anna de Paula Hanika Deborah Estrin Brittany Fiore-Gartland Dana Greenfield Judith Gregory Mette Kragh-Furbo Celia Lury Adrian Mackenzie Rajiv Mehta Maggie Mort Dawn Nafus Gina Neff Helen Nissenbaum Heather Patterson Celia Roberts Jamie Sherman Alex Taylor Gary Wolf</p>