Metric Culture: Ontologies of Self-Tracking Practices

285 Pages·2018·3.327 MB·English

by  Btihaj Ajana

METRIC CULTURE: ONTOLOGIES OF
SELF-TRACKING PRACTICES
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METRIC CULTURE:
ONTOLOGIES OF
SELF-TRACKING
PRACTICES
EDITED BY
BTIHAJ AJANA
Kings College London, UK
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Acknowledgements
This book project emerged out of the conference ‘Metric Culture: The
Quantified Self and Beyond’ organised in June 2017 at the Aarhus
Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) in Denmark. On behalf of all the
contributors in this volume, I wish to thank the Institute for supporting
the conference and the subsequent book project. Special thanks to
Morten Kyndrup, Lena Bering, Helle Villekold, Tanya Majlund
McGregor, Vibeke Moll Sorensen and Dorte Mariager for all their help
and support. Many thanks also to all the conference participants for
their helpful feedback and stimulating discussions which informed the
developmentofthisbook.
Both the conference and the book project have benefited from the
financial support received during the COFUND Marie Curie
Fellowship I undertook at AIAS in 2015(cid:1)2017, supported by European
Union’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement
no. 609033. The book was also supported by a Publication Grant
received from Aarhus University Research Foundation. I wish to thank
theseinstitutionsfortheirgeneroussupport.
IalsowouldliketothankJenMcCallandRachelWardfromEmerald
Publishing for their assistance with the publication of this book. Thanks
alsotoChristineO’Haganforhermeticulousproofreadingofthework.
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Contents
ListofFigures ix
ListofTables xi
ListofContributors xiii
AbouttheAuthors xv
Chapter1 Introduction:MetricCultureandtheOver-examinedLife
BtihajAjana 1
Chapter2 PerformanceManagementandtheAuditedSelf
CrisShoreandSusanWright 11
Chapter3 TheDigitisationofWelfare:AStrategytowards
ImprovingCitizens’Self-careandCo-managementofWelfare
NicoleThualagantandDitte-MarieFrom 37
Chapter4 ‘AMuchBetterPerson’:TheAgentialCapacitiesof
Self-trackingPractices
DeborahLuptonandGavinJ.D.Smith 57
Chapter5 ResonatingSelf-trackingPractices?EmpiricalInsights
intoTheoreticalReflectionsona‘SociologyofResonance’
KarolinEvaKappler,AgnieszkaKrzeminskaandErykNoji 77
Chapter6 The1-PersonLaboratoryoftheQuantifiedSelf
Community
ThomasBlomsethChristiansen,DortheBroga˚rdKristensenand
JakobEgLarsen 97
viii Contents
Chapter7 EmbodimentandAgencythroughSelf-tracking
PracticesofPeopleLivingwithDiabetes
GiadaDanesi,Me´lodyPralongandVincentPidoux 117
Chapter8 DoingCalories:ThePracticesofDietingUsingCalorie
CountingAppMyFitnessPal
GabijaDidzˇiokaite,PaulaSaukkoandChristianGreiffenhagen 137
Chapter9 SleepAppDiscourses:ACulturalPerspective
AntoinetteFage-Butler 157
Chapter10 AcademicMetricsandPositioningStrategies
JanetChan,FleurJohnsandLyriaBennettMoses 177
Chapter11 Real-timeGradeBooksandtheQuantifiedStudent
WilliamG.Staples 197
Chapter12 AQuantifiedSelfReportCard:EthicalConsiderations
ofPrivacyasCommodity
ChelseaPalmerandRochelleFairfield 217
Chapter13 TheLimitsofRatio:AnAnalysisofNPMinSweden
UsingNicholasofCusa’sUnderstandingofReason
JonnaBornemark 235
Index 255
List of Figures
Chapter2
Figure2.1 DiagramofRockwater’s‘BalancedScorecard’. . . . 18
Figure2.2 DiagramofRockwater’sIndividualScorecard. . . . 19
Figure2.3 TheUniversityofAuckland’sLeadershipFramework
Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chapter5
Figure5.1 DiagramofAnalyticalGraphofWorldRelationships
(OwnElaboration). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Figure5.2 AnalyticalGraphofWorldRelationships:CaseStudy
Self-tracking(OwnElaboration). . . . . . . . . . . 91
Chapter6
Figure6.1 AWholeNewDynamic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Chapter12
Figure12.1 WasThereaFixedLinktothePrivacyPolicyinthe
Website’sHeaderorFooter?. . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Figure12.2 WasaDedicatedPrivacyContactNamedwithinthe
PrivacyPolicyDocumentation? . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Figure12.3 DidthePrivacyPolicyDocumentationNoteHow
FutureChangesWouldBeIndicated? . . . . . . . . 223
Figure12.4 DidtheResearchersFeelthatthePrivacyPolicy
ShowedanAttemptatReadableLanguage?. . . . . 224
Figure12.5 HowManyPointsofDirectContactDidtheAverage
CompanyProvide?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225