{"id":624,"date":"2015-03-16T21:56:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T01:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/?p=624"},"modified":"2015-03-16T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T01:56:36","slug":"the-self-in-the-quantified-self-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/03\/16\/the-self-in-the-quantified-self-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Self in the Quantified Self Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anne Helen Peterson in her piece titled Big Mother is Watching You <\/em>discusses the current and future implications of self-tracking wearables on our daily lives. By 2018 with over 60 million fitness trackers in use worldwide we will see the explosion of self-tracking devices. With the release of the Apple Watch we can see how self-tracking devices are transitioning into our mainstream day to day culture.. But, how will self-tracking change the way we live our lives? While self-tracking will empower individuals to improve their health and to discover things such as eczema inducers, self-tracking will also peel back the mystery of the human body. We will be able to quantify information that before was merely qualitative. For instance, instead of having the qualitative feeling that you had a good nights sleep we will be reliant on data from an app which will quantify the quality of our sleep based on our movements and breathing patterns. In a way this is excites me, but more often than not when I ponder these implications I feel as if this will undermine the importance of human emotion and feeling. Instead of deciding what feels best to us as individuals we will be reliant on what an app says is ideal for us. This reminds me of a current trend in medicine, which is the transition towards personalized medicine. In my opinion only when Quantified data is matched with our qualitative human emotions will I feel satisfied by the conclusions of self-tracking devices. If we allow it, self-tracking could easily strip us of our individuality and will undermine and doubt our own feelings about our bodies.<\/p>\n

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