9 AI, Self-Tracking and Data Personas
Abstract
Self-tracking, manifest in consumer technologies like fitness trackers and smartwatches, is an algorithmic process that draws on vast personal data. Self-tracking is varied, intimate, ubiquitous and offers many possibilities: insights into physical and mental states, ways to document and share experience, and socio-technical reference points for personal identity. This chapter explores self-tracking through scholarly ‘turns’: towards pre-digital histories, towards topologies of user/device interactions, and towards individual subjectivities. At the level of individuals, self-tracking is freeing (a means to delegate, automate and create), as well as constraining (a vehicle for anxiety, ...
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