Laboring Bodies And The Quantified Self

Author : Ulfried Reichardt,Regina Schober
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839449219

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Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self by Ulfried Reichardt,Regina Schober Pdf

The body has become central to practices of self-tracking. By focusing on the relations between quantification, the body, and labor, this volume sheds light on the ways in which discourses on data collection and versions of the ›corporate self‹ are instrumental in redefining concepts of labor, including notions of immaterial and free labor in an increasingly virtual work environment. The contributions explore the functions of quantification in conceptualizing the body as a laboring body and examine how quantification contributes to disciplining the body. By doing so, they also inquire how practices of self-tracking, self-monitoring, and self-optimization have evolved historically.

Author : Sebastian M. Herrmann,Katja Kanzler,Stefan Schubert
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839461303

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Beyond Narrative by Sebastian M. Herrmann,Katja Kanzler,Stefan Schubert Pdf

This book calls for an investigation of the ›borderlands of narrativity‹ — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual. It opens up a conversation about the ›beyond‹ of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs into the principles of other forms. To conceptualize these borderlands, the book introduces the notion of »narrative liminality,« which the 16 articles utilize to engage literature, popular culture, digital technology, historical artifacts, and other kinds of texts from a time span of close to 200 years.

Author : Qihao Ji
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000964462

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Social Media and Society by Qihao Ji Pdf

This book offers a detailed exploration of the role social media plays in our daily lives and across a variety of contexts, from social networking sites, messaging applications, and enterprise communication platforms to virtual reality. Offering readers an introduction to the uses, effects, and central debates surrounding the subject of social media, this text is organized into three sections, each with a distinct focus. Part I provides an overview of social media, defining it through communication characteristics and exploring both theoretical and practical approaches to understanding it; Part II examines the impact of social media on individual users, including its effects on expression, health, and relationship management; and Part III investigates the wider social implications of social media, including its impact on politics, entertainment, marketing, and information consumption. Featuring key contemporary case studies and learner-centered exercises throughout, this book offers a rich and engaging look at the most pertinent issues of the social media era on both an individual and societal level. This is an essential text for students of digital media, communication, journalism, and beyond, as well as a useful resource for researchers and industry professionals interested in exploring the social and psychological effects of social media.

Author : Ralf Huss
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000868975

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Digital Medicine by Ralf Huss Pdf

This book provides an introduction into the field of digital medicine, its wide spectrum of current clinical applications, and the future practice of medicine. With "digital health" and "digital medicine" at its core, it focuses on the combination of therapeutics with modern hard- and software solutions, including artificial intelligence and advanced diagnostic technologies such as augmented imaging and ingestible or wearable (nano)sensors, to provide best patient care. In the four parts of this book, experts in the field have authored use cases and guiding principles on the visualization of patient data analytics and clinical decision support tools, including robotic-guided interventions, as well as nursing research along with palliative and inpatient care. The book also provides examples of "digital medicine" from almost all clinical disciplines together with technical and e-learning solutions.

Author : Masaomi Kobayashi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031126888

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The Multiverse of Office Fiction by Masaomi Kobayashi Pdf

The Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melville’s 1853 classic, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fiction—fiction featuring office workers such as clerks, civil servants, and company employees—as an underexplored genre of fiction, by addressing relevant issues such as evolution of office work, integration of work and life, exploitation of women office workers, and representation of the Post Office. In achieving this goal, Bartleby plays an essential role not as one of the most eccentric characters in literary fiction, but rather as one of the most generic characters in office fiction. Overall, this book demonstrates that Bartleby is a generative figure, by incorporating a wide diversity of his cousins as Bartlebys. It offers fresh contexts in which to place these characters so that it can ultimately contribute to an ever-evolving poetics of the office.

Author : Leighton Evans,Jordan Frith,Michael Saker
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781804550212

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From Microverse to Metaverse by Leighton Evans,Jordan Frith,Michael Saker Pdf

From Microverse to Metaverse: Modelling the Future through Today's Virtual Worlds analyzes the political economy of emerging tech with the mechanisms of identity and behavioral constraints involved to map what a metaverse might be like, whether it can happen, and just why some companies seem so determined to make it happen.

Author : Mita Banerjee
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783110769647

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Centenarians’ Autobiographies by Mita Banerjee Pdf

Author : Hamideh Mahdiani
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839458365

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Resilience Stories by Hamideh Mahdiani Pdf

Be resilient! Today, we hear this line in almost any context. The term resilience is among the most repeated buzzwords. But why, simply, do we need to be resilient? Hamideh Mahdiani presents answers to this question by challenging a reductionistic understanding of resilience from single disciplinary perspectives; by questioning the dominance of life sciences in defining an age-old concept; and by problematizing the neglected role of life writing in fostering resilience. In so doing, through a multidisciplinary frame of reference, the book works with various examples from life writing and life sciences, and testifies to the focal role of narrative studies in resilience research.

Author : Jennifer Takhar,Rika Houston,Nikhilesh Dholakia
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000789065

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Transhumanisms and Biotechnologies in Consumer Society by Jennifer Takhar,Rika Houston,Nikhilesh Dholakia Pdf

Transhumanisms and Biotechnologies in Consumer Society offers new, critical perspectives on the impact of 'life-enhancing' technological advancements on consumer identity positions and market evolutions. Technoprogressive innovations that include body modification technologies and reproductive technologies have enabled people to transcend bodily constraints. In parallel, they provoke necessary, critical interrogation around human capabilities, technological possibilities, gender equality, feminism, personal identity, bioethics, markets and morality. The contributions in this book re-evaluate these topics and elucidate some of the vexed relationships between consumers of biotechnologies and markets they consider restrictive or misleading. Secondly, by illustrating consumers’ questioning of and resistance to biomedical, market imperatives, they highlight how the notion of consumer sovereignty, consumer influence over markets, has now advanced into novel forms of consumer activism made manifest through contemporary health justice movements. The chapters in this book also uncover profoundly personal consumer accounts on coping with and managing bodies-in-transition, focusing on illness, self-perception, survivorship and the vicissitudes of these corporeal experiences. This book will allow readers to understand how accelerated technological market changes are being experienced and creatively countered at the societal and individual level. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Marketing Management.

Author : Jacqueline Wernimont
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262039048

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Numbered Lives by Jacqueline Wernimont Pdf

A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily steps with fitness trackers and quantify births and deaths with digitized data. How are these present-day methods for measuring ourselves similar to those used in the past? In this book, Jacqueline Wernimont presents a new media history of western quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Numbered Lives is the first book of its kind, a feminist media history that maps connections not only between past and present-day “quantum media” but between media tracking and long-standing systemic inequalities. Wernimont explores the history of the pedometer, mortality statistics, and the census in England and the United States to illuminate the entanglement of Anglo-American quantification with religious, imperial, and patriarchal paradigms. In Anglo-American culture, Wernimont argues, counting life and counting death are sides of the same coin—one that has always been used to render statistics of life and death more valuable to corporate and state organizations. Numbered Lives enumerates our shared media history, helping us understand our digital culture and inheritance.

Author : Gina Neff,Dawn Nafus
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262529129

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Self-Tracking by Gina Neff,Dawn Nafus Pdf

What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking. People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, looking at the tools they use and the communities they become part of. Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what happens when people turn their everyday experience—in particular, health and wellness-related experience—into data, and offer an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of using these technologies. They consider self-tracking as a social and cultural phenomenon, describing not only the use of data as a kind of mirror of the self but also how this enables people to connect to, and learn from, others. Neff and Nafus consider what's at stake: who wants our data and why; the practices of serious self-tracking enthusiasts; the design of commercial self-tracking technology; and how self-tracking can fill gaps in the healthcare system. Today, no one can lead an entirely untracked life. Neff and Nafus show us how to use data in a way that empowers and educates.

Author : Elizabeth Ellcessor,Bill Kirkpatrick
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479849383

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Disability Media Studies by Elizabeth Ellcessor,Bill Kirkpatrick Pdf

Introduces key ideas and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions in the emerging field of disability media studies Disability Media Studies articulates the formation of a new field of study, based in the rich traditions of media, cultural, and disability studies. Necessarily interdisciplinary and diverse, this collection weaves together work from scholars from a variety of disciplinary homes, into a broader conversation about exploring media artifacts in relation to disability. The book provides a comprehensive overview for anyone interested in the study of disability and media today. Case studies include familiar contemporary examples—such as Iron Man 3, Lady Gaga, and Oscar Pistorius—as well as historical media, independent disability media, reality television, and media technologies. The contributors consider disability representation, the role of media in forming cultural assumptions about ability, the construction of disability via media technologies, and how disabled audiences respond to particular media artifacts. The volume concludes with afterwords from two different perspectives on the field—one by disability scholar Rachel Adams, the other by media scholars Mara Mills and Jonathan Sterne—that reflect upon the collection, the ongoing conversations, and the future of disability media studies. Disability Media Studies is a crucial text for those interested in this flourishing field, and will pave the way for a greater understanding of disability media studies and its critical concepts and conversations.

Author : Kevin Floyd
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816643950

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The Reification of Desire by Kevin Floyd Pdf

Floyd brings queer critique to bear on the Marxian categories of reification and totality and considers the dialectic that frames the work of Georg Lukâas, Herbert Marcuse and Frederic Jameson.

Author : Asao B. Inoue
Publisher : Wac Clearinghouse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 1646424131

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Labor-based Grading Contracts by Asao B. Inoue Pdf

In the second edition of Labor-Based Grading Contracts, Asao B. Inoue refines his exploration of labor-based grading contracts in the writing classroom. Drawing on antiracist teaching practices, he argues that labor-based grading contracts offer a compassionate approach that is strongly grounded in social justice work. Updated with a new foreword and revised chapters, the book offers a meditation on how Inoue's use of Freirean problem-posing led him to experiment with grading contracts. The result is a robust Marxian theory of labor that considers Hannah Arendt's theory of labor-work-action and Barbara Adam's concept of "timescapes." The heart of the book details the theoretical and practical ways labor-based grading contracts can be used and assessed for effectiveness in classrooms and programs. Inoue concludes his exploration of labor-based grading by moving outside the classroom, considering how assessing writing in the socially just ways he offers in the book may provide a way to address the violence and discord seen in the world today.

Author : Didier Deleule,François Guéry
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781780995779

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The Productive Body by Didier Deleule,François Guéry Pdf

The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been expropriated and re-engineered through successive stages of capitalism; and how capitalism’s transformation of the body is related to the rise of scientific psychology and social science disciplines complicit with modern regimes of control. In Discipline and Punish, Foucault cited Guéry and Deleule in order to link Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism with his own critique of power/knowledge. The Productive Body brings together Marxism and theories of the body-machine for the goal of political revolution. ,