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SELF-TRACKING Empirical and Philosophical Investigations Edited by Btihaj Ajana Self-Tracking Btihaj Ajana Editor Self-Tracking Empirical and Philosophical Investigations Editor Btihaj Ajana Digital Humanities King’s College London London, UK and Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark ISBN 978-3-319-65378-5 ISBN 978-3-319-65379-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-65379-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017948697 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Stephen Bonk/Fotolia.co.uk Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland A cknowledgements This edited collection grew out of the workshop ‘The Quantified Self and the Rise of Self-Tracking Culture’, organised by Btihaj Ajana in June 2016 at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies. The workshop was part of Ajana’s Marie Curie Fellowship project, supported the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme under Grant Agreement No. 609033. We wish to thank Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies and the European Union for their generous support with the workshop and this ensuing publication project. We also wish to thank all the workshop attendees for their useful feedback and comments on our presentations and panel discussions. Many thanks also to the research participants and the many self-trackers who generously shared their experiences and thoughts with us in the course of conducting our respective research projects and writings. Finally, we would like to thank the editors at Palgrave Macmillan for their support with the publication of this book. v c ontents 1 Introduction 1 Btihaj Ajana 2 Engagement and the Quantified Self: Uneventful Relationships with Ghostly Companions 11 Paolo Ruffino 3 Apps as Companions: How Quantified Self Apps Become Our Audience and Our Companions 27 Jill Walker Rettberg 4 Human/Technology Associations in Self-Tracking Practices 43 Dorthe Brogård Kristensen and Carolin Prigge 5 Social Media and Self-Tracking: Representing the ‘Health Self’ 61 Rachael Kent 6 Self-Tracking as the Mobilisation of the Social for Capital Accumulation 77 Chris Till vii viii CONTENTS 7 The Quantified Workplace: A Study in Self-Tracking, Agility and Change Management 93 Phoebe Moore, Lukasz Piwek and Ian Roper 8 Data Privacy: Users’ Thoughts on Quantified Self Personal Data 111 Keith Spiller, Kirstie Ball, Arosha Bandara, Maureen Meadows, Ciaran McCormick, Bashar Nuseibeh and Blaine A. Price 9 Communal Self-Tracking: Data Philanthropy, Solidarity and Privacy 125 Btihaj Ajana Author Index 143 Subject Index 149 e c ditor And ontributors About the Editor Btihaj Ajana is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. She is also associated to Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies where she undertook a Marie Curie Fellowship in 2015–2017. Her academic work is interdisciplinary in nature, spanning areas of digital culture, media praxis, and biopolitics. She is the author of Governing through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity (Palgrave 2013). Contributors Kirstie Ball is Professor of Management at St. Andrews University. Her research interests focus on surveillance; in particular, she is interested in subjectivity and the experience of surveillance, employee surveillance, consumer surveillance, and the blurring of public and private boundaries in government surveillance regimes. Arosha Bandara is Senior Lecturer in Computing at the Open University. His research focuses on addressing the practical problems associated with building and maintaining self-managing systems. Most recently, he has been investigating ways in which machine-learning tech- niques can improve the privacy management capabilities for users. ix x EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS Rachael Kent is a Ph.D. candidate at King’s College London. She is currently researching the use of social media and digital health tech- nologies as part of the European Research Council funded project, Ego Media. Kent is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. Dorthe Brogård Kristensen is Associate Professor in Consumption Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen (2008) and an M.Sc. in medical anthro- pology from University College London (1998). Her current interests include digital health, food, social marketing, and medical pluralism. Ciaran McCormick is Technical Project Officer in Computing at the Open University. He is a KDB+/Q Developer, Functional Programmer, and Big Data Devotee. Maureen Meadows is Professor of Strategic Management at Coventry University. Her research explores the use of data, particularly customer/ consumer data, by organisations of all kinds; the analysis of ‘big data’ to support decision-making and enhance strategic conversations; and the impact of data sharing and privacy on customer behaviours and new business models. Phoebe Moore is an internationally renowned researcher on labour, technology, and global governance. Moore’s recent publications in this area include ‘The Quantified Self: What counts in the neoliberal work- place’ (New Media and Society 2016) and Humans and Machines at Work: Monitoring, Surveillance and Automation in Contemporary Capitalism (Palgrave October 2017). Bashar Nuseibeh is Professor of Computing at the Open University. His research interests are broadly in software engineering, requirements engineering and design, with a special interest in applications in security, privacy, and digital forensics. His work aims to improve the development of both cyber-physical systems and socio-technical ones. Lukasz Piwek is Assistant Professor in Data Science at the School of Management, University of Bath. His research work focuses on using Big Data obtained from mobile devices, smart wearables, apps, and social networks in security, work, health profiling, behaviour change, and developing new research methodologies. EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS xi Blaine A. Price is Senior Lecturer of Computing at the Open University. His research interests are in privacy in mobile and ubiquitous computing and in lifelogging technologies in particular, including both personal lifelogging and logging energy and resource usage. Carolin Prigge finished her Master's Degree in Brand Management and Marketing Communication in 2016 at the University of Southern Denmark. Originally from Germany, she has been studying abroad in Denmark, Spain, and the USA. Her work investigates the consumption of fitness self-tracking technologies from a postphenomenological per- spective. Jill Walker Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. She is the author of Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Uses Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves (Palgrave 2014) and Blogging (Polity Press 2014). Ian Roper works at Middlesex University where he teaches employ- ment relations and contemporary human resources management. He has research interests in the nature of professionalism, employment relations, ethics, and employment regulation. He has written a number of journal articles and book chapters and edited books on these topics. Paolo Ruffino is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Lincoln. He has been researching and teaching on video game culture, gamification, the Quantified Self, and media arts. He is one of the four founding members of the art collective IOCOSE. Keith Spiller is Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University. His research examines the social consequences of surveillance and its impacts on organisations and individuals. His work has considered CCTV, security regulation, counter-terror measures, and the impacts of surveillance technologies within the UK’s travel and financial sectors. Chris Till is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Leeds Beckett University. His research interests are in social theory, health, technologies, and bod- ies. Currently, he is conducting research into the use of self-tracking technologies in corporate wellness programs to explore the role they play in digital capitalism.

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