## <span class="censor">Data Subjects 2021 <br>// Session 04: The quantified self</span> <iframe width="800" height="450" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qI75kMqctik" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> <small>Quantified Life film (2017) Dir. Btihaj Ajana.</small> Pablo Velasco // Information Studies // [pablov.me](https://pablov.me) --- ## Plan for the day: * subject as produser * quantified-self * uncharted data --- # The produser persona - prosumer: producer + consumer (Toffler 1971)  <small>(Bruns 2009)</small> - produser: producer + user (mostly of content, but also technical systems)  <small>(Bruns 2009)</small> - arguably an alteration of the value chain ---- <img src="https://i.imgur.com/yT51hBa.png" width="20%"> <img src="https://i.imgur.com/C7xnlAq.png" width="20%"> - produser practices: - user-led content production - "products" are temporary artifacts - collaborative enagagement - iterative development - alternative approaches to IP <!-- alt licenses--> - heterartical structures -> cooperation (meritocracy) <!-- who's the queen in wikipedia--> - Open issues: - explotation - Liability / missinformation <!-- self-produced alternative narratives--> <!--Q - produser as subject / produser as exploitation --> --- # Quantified Self - A form of **self-improvement** and a form of self-reflection - **self-tracking !=** tracking of the self by others - "soft resistance" (Nafus and Sherman 2014) <span class="censor">an important modality of resistance to dominant modes of living with data (...) Soft resistance happens when participants assume multiple roles as project designers, data collectors, and critical sense-makers, rapidly assessing and often changing what data they collect and why in response to idiosyncratically shifting sets of priorities and objectives (Lupton 2016)</span> <!-- the feeling that you're in control--> ---- **Changes to Quantified Self upon computing (Lupton 2016):** 1. Practices are **digitised and automated** (easier to monitor and shape) 2. Stored on **clouds and databases** -> not limited to self-trackers, but to developers, third parties, data mining companies, government agencies, hackers 3. Information with high **commercial value** ---- ### Self-improvement and self reflection Sleep better, eat healthier, exercise more efficiently <img src="https://i.imgur.com/qtDwO6D.jpg" width="40%"> <small>Cederström and Spicer 2017 (You can hear a podcast about this project [here](https://youtu.be/dUGBy408ybk))</small> * The 'good citizen': <span class="censor">that is, a citizen who is responsible, capable and self-regulated in the pursuit of happiness, health, productivity, and well-being (Lupton 2016, 46)</span> ### optimisation != knowledge ---- ### Self-tracking and tracking of the self > the Polar GoFit app with a set of heart-rate sensors is expressly designed for physical education teachers as a monitoring tool for students' physical activities during lessons (Lupton 2016, 24) <span class="censor">one such **assemblage** is **the human-body-device-sensor-software-data** configuration that is generated when people use a digital device to monitor and measure physical activities (Lupton 2016, 40)</span> ### How does the intersection between ✨agency✨ and *automation* works in self-quantification processes? --- # Uncharted data <img src="https://i.imgur.com/LE3stby.png" width="80%"> <small>Rate my room: https://twitter.com/ratemyskyperoom</small> ---- ### Qualified Self (Humphreys 2018) - sharing is not a digital practice (diaries, photo albums, etc) - the accounting of everyday’s life (documentation practices) - an account of something - accounting as enumeration - accountability as liability - self understanding through “the representations of ourselves [that we create] to be consumed” - curated photos are not pure narcissism, but a social mediation ---- **Affective computing**: Digital objects and digital devices trigger and store affect/emotional states (Picard 2000) **"Lively data"** (Savage 2013): <span class="censor">large masses of fluctuating digital data - and fundamentally about human life (Uprichard 2012, Savage 2013): “bodily functions, behaviours, social relationships, moods and emotions”</span> ---- ### Dear Data Project <img src="https://gitlab.com/xpablov/data-studies/-/raw/master/DS19/S04/dd_phone_addiction1.jpg" width="30%"> <img src="https://gitlab.com/xpablov/data-studies/-/raw/master/DS19/S04/dd_phone_addiction2.jpg" width="30%"> <img src="https://gitlab.com/xpablov/data-studies/-/raw/master/DS19/S04/dd_beautiful_full.jpg" width="30%"> *See also:* [Quantified selfie project](http://quantifiedselfie.us/) <!--- #### Posavec-lupi recipe: **Data** (it can be any data) + **Rules**: How to read it? (higher means *x*, lower means *y*) + **Visual variables**: shape, colour, size... <img src="https://gitlab.com/xpablov/data-studies/-/raw/master/DS19/S04/dd_recipe1.jpg" width="22%"> <img src="https://gitlab.com/xpablov/data-studies/-/raw/master/DS19/S04/dd_recipe2.jpg" width="22%"> <img src="https://gitlab.com/xpablov/data-studies/-/raw/master/DS19/S04/dd_recipe3.jpg" width="22%"> <img src="https://gitlab.com/xpablov/data-studies/-/raw/master/DS19/S04/dd_recipe4.jpg" width="22%"> ---> ---- <!-- #### Activity (1-3 people) 1. Choose a proyect from the https://quantifiedself.com/show-and-tell/ catalog OR the quantified selfie http://quantifiedselfie.us/ 2. What are the goals of the project? What are the steps (methodology, if any) taken to reach such goal? 3. 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