It is not a new idea to suggest that our twenty-first-century technologies of data collection are
changing who we are. The idea of selfhood—already under scrutiny by philosophers and …

With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new
adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self …

We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we
live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become …

The word 'data'has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it
means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and …

How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making
power of the local. In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of …

The recent proliferation of wearable self-tracking devices intended to regulate and measure
the body has brought contingent questions of controlling, accessing and interpreting …

Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world.
Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we …

In 1927, Walter Lippmann published The Phantom Public, denouncing the 'mystical fallacy
of democracy.'Decrying romantic democratic models that privilege self-governance, he …

Big data is often seen in terms of powerful institutions managing the actions of populations
through data. This ethnography of the Quantified Self movement, where participants collect …

Self-tracking practices have attracted burgeoning academic interest in recent years. This
article draws on interviews with Australians who identify as regular self-trackers, examining …