Digital Culture & Society (DCS): Vol. 2, Issue 1/2016 - Quantified Selves and Statistical Bodies

by Karin Wenz (Editor), Mathias Fuchs (Editor)

Overview

Digital Culture & Society is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for critical analysis and inquiries into digital media theory and provides a publication environment for interdisciplinary research approaches, contemporary theory developments and methodological innovation.
The second issue "Quantified Selves | Statistical Bodies" provides methodological and theoretical reflections on technologically generated knowledge about the body and socio-cultural practices that are subsumed, discussed, and criticized using the key concept "Quantified Self".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837632101
Publication date:	08/16/2016
Series:	Digital Society
Edition description:	Vol. 2, Issue 1/2016
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Pablo Abend (PhD) is the scientific coordinator of the Research School "Locating Media" at the University of Siegen. He is interested in geomedia, situated methodologies, participatory culture, and Science and Technology Studies.
Mathias Fuchs (Dr.) is an artist, musician and media scholar. He is the director of the Gamification Lab at Leuphana University in Lüneburg. He is a pioneer in the field of game art and is a leading scholar in game studies and directs a project on Gamification that is funded by the German Research Council (2018-2021).
Ramón Reichert (Dr. phil. habil.) teaches and researches as a senior researcher at the Department of Cultural Studies at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. Previously, he taught and researched in Basel, Berlin, Canberra, Fribourg, Helsinki, Sankt Gallen, Stockholm and Zurich and was EU project coordinator for many years. His current research project "Visual Politics and Protest. Artistic Research Project on the visual framing of the Russia-Ukraine War on internet portals and social media" (2022-2024) deals with the visual politics of violence, conflict and resistance.
Annika Richterich (Dr.) is an assistant professor in Digital Culture at Maastricht University (Netherlands).
Karin Wenz (Dr.) is an assistant professor of Media Culture at Maastricht University, Netherlands, and director of studies of the MA Media Culture.

Table of Contents

Content 3
Introduction 5
From Quantified to Qualified Self 25
Total Affect Control 41
Theorising the Quantified Self and Posthumanist Agency 53
Bodies, Mood and Excess 71
Unhappy? There's an App for That 89
Casual Power 107
My Quantified Self, my FitBit and I 123
How Old am I? 145
Games to Live With 153
Quantified Bodies 161
Quantified Faces 169
Coupling Quantified Bodies 177
I Think it Worked Because Mercury was in the House of Jupiter! 185
Biographical Notes 195