by Research Team | Mar 21, 2018 | Research Publications
Author(s): Julie Passanante Elman Abstract: By examining advertisements, technological design, workplace wellness programs, and legal discourses involving Fitbit activity trackers, this article examines how cultural ideas about disability infuse the representation,...
by Research Team | Jan 1, 2018 | Research Publications
Author: Ralph Schroeder Abstract: Knowledge about society has recently taken a new direction, with groundbreaking studies of digital media. Examples include analyses of Twitter, Wederikipedia, Facebook, Google and smartphone use. These studies have been made...
by Research Team | Jan 23, 2017 | Research Publications
Authors: Deborah Lupton Ben Williamson Abstract: Children are becoming the objects of a multitude of monitoring devices that generate detailed data about them, and critical data researchers and privacy advocates are only just beginning to direct attention to these...
by Research Team | Jun 15, 2016 | Research Publications
Authors: Na Li Frank Hopfgartner Abstract: With more and more wearable devices and smartphone apps being released that are capable of unobtrusively recording various aspects of our life, we are currently witnessing the emergence of a new trend. Followers of this trend...
by Research Team | Jun 4, 2016 | Research Publications
Abstract Quantified Self or self-tracking is a growing movement where people are tracking data about themselves. Tracking the provenance of Quantified Self data is hard because usually many different devices, apps, and services are involved. Nevertheless receiving...
