This One Does Not Go Up to 11: The Quantified Self Movement as an Alternative Big Data Practice

By Dawn Nafus, Jamie Sherman. 2014

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Visualized and Interacted Life: Personal Analytics and Engagements with Data Doubles (2014, background): “An important arena for observing these kinds of auto-regulative processes of everyday governmentality is the Quantified Self movement that started in California in 2008 [1,13].”
Self-tracking cultures: towards a sociology of personal informatics (2014, background): “While self-tracking, in its very name and focus on the ‘self’ may appear to be an individualistic practice, many self-trackers view themselves as part of community of trackers (Boesel, 2013; Lupton, 2013a, 2014b; Nafus and Sherman, 2014).”
Data for life: Wearable technology and the design of self-care (2016, background): “…2013; Boesel (see her blog, http://www.thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/author/ whitneyerinboesel/), Mackenzie, 2008; Nafus and Neff, 2016; Nafus and Sherman, 2014; Oxlund, 2012; Pantzar and Ruckenstein, 2015; Ruckenstein, 2014; Potts, 2010; Schüll, forthcoming; Till, 2014; Berson, 2015;…”
From data fetishism to quantifying selves: Self-tracking practices and the other values of data (2017, background): “As Nafus and Sherman (2014) suggest, this oppositional disposition can be seen as a “soft resistance” that “enables participants to partially yet significantly escape the frames created by the biopolitics of the … technology industry” (p. 1784).”
Communication, Mediation, and the Expectations of Data: Data Valences Across Health and Wellness Communities (2015, background): “As Nafus and Sherman (2014) note of QS, the boundaries among communities of technologists, users, and practitioners are fuzzy, and membership often overlapped.”