A field of personal analytics has emerged around self-monitoring practices, which includes
the visualization and interpretation of the data produced. This paper explores personal …

This article investigates the metaphor of the Quantified Self (QS) as it is presented in the
magazine Wired (2008–2012). Four interrelated themes—transparency, optimization …

Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is the ideal introduction to this
discipline, defining and discussing its central terms with clarity and authority. Among the …

This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in …

Why do we feel excited, afraid, and frustrated by algorithms? The Feel of Algorithms brings
relatable first-person accounts of what it means to experience algorithms emotionally …

ABSTRACT A long-term research focus on the temporality of everyday life has become
revitalised with new tracking technologies that allow methodological experimentation and …

Techno-Anthropology recognizes the intertwining of technology with aims, needs, practices,
and skills;'the techno'and 'the anthro'are not only interconnected, but historically …

This chapter demonstrates how ethnographically-oriented research on emergent
technologies, in this case self-tracking technologies, adds to Techno-Anthropology's aims of …

Since the publication of Nikolas Rose's 'The Politics of Life Itself'(2001) there has been vivid
discussion about how biopolitical governance has changed over the last decades. This …

Objectives To ascertain what meaning individuals attach to perceiving images of their own
interior body and how the images and their meanings affect the clinical consultation. Design …