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About the Author
Btihaj Ajana is Senior Lecturer at the department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, UK. She was recently a Marie Curie Fellow and Associate Professor at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark where she conducted a project on self-tracking practices (@MetricLife). Her academic work is international and interdisciplinary in nature, spanning areas of digital culture, media praxis, and biopolitics. She is the author of Governing through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity (2013) and the editor of Self-Tracking: Empirical and Philosophical Investigations (2017).
Reviews
In 13 papers from a conference in Aarhus, Denmark during June 2017, contributors in the social sciences, technology, and law explore how the culture of measuring is convincing people to measure themselves in various ways. Their topics include the digitization of welfare: a strategy towards improving citizens' self-care and co-management of welfare, resonating self-tracking practices: empirical insights into theoretical reflections on a Sociology of Resonance, doing calories: the practices of dieting using calorie-counting app MyFitnessPal, a quantified self report card: ethical considerations of privacy as commodity, and the limits of ratio: an analysis of New Public Management in Sweden using Nicholas of Cusa's understanding of reason. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781787544581
Author Btihaj Ajana
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 417g