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- Title
The Data-Based Self: Self-Quantification and the Data-Driven (Good) Life.
- Authors
Schüll, Natasha D.
- Abstract
The article focuses on ways in which digital quantification technologies which permeate and exert power on all manner of forms of life. It mentions how quantification serves a neoliberal governmental rationality that accelerates the withdrawal of the welfare state from citizens' lives and ways quantification and algorithmic analysis alienate us from our own practical reasoning, intuition, and understanding of ourselves. It also mentions smartphone apps, data-visualization software, and analytical algorithms, provides an ethnographic entry point and array of devices and apps for monitoring productivity.
- Subjects
PREDICATE calculus; NEOLIBERALISM; ALGORITHMS; PRACTICAL reason; MOBILE apps; DATA visualization software
- Publication
Social Research, 2019, Vol 86, Issue 4, p909
- ISSN
0037-783X
- Publication type
Article