A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa
The Datafication of Therapeutic Life Management: Assembling the Self in Control Society
Tekijät: Harley Bergroth, Ilpo Helén
Toimittaja: Suvi Salmenniemi, Johanna Nurmi, Inna Perheentupa, Harley Bergroth
Painos: 1st Edition
Kustannuspaikka: Lontoo
Julkaisuvuosi: 2019
Kokoomateoksen nimi: Assembling Therapeutics: Cultures, Politics and Materiality
Aloitussivu: 107
Lopetussivu: 123
Sivujen määrä: 17
ISBN: 978-0-815-37797-9
eISBN: 978-1-351-23339-2
Verkko-osoite: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351233392/chapters/10.4324/9781351233392-7
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/42091254
For people who are willing or obliged to reflect on and proactively modify their personal conduct, a plethora of self-tracking devices are now widely available. By self-tracking devices we refer to near-body gadgets and related software applications that provide measurements of the rhythms and patterns of everyday life – for example, step counts, heart rate, walking distances and sleeping patterns. By providing quantitative data about vital functions or behavioural patterns, these technologies aim at helping people to enhance their self-knowledge, to adjust their behaviour and/or to accomplish self-improvement. As such, self-tracking technologies are entering and altering the domain of the ‘therapeutic’ that emerged and was consolidated during the 20th century (see Madsen, 2014, 2015; Moskowitz, 2001). Instead of approaching self-tracking as merely an instantiation of an overarching and static ‘therapy culture’, in this chapter we study more closely the therapeutic imaginaries and functions of self-tracking in everyday life, and situate the phenomenon as part of always-emergent therapeutic assemblages.
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