Books
Book Reading at SXSW 2017: Self-Tracking: Wearables, Hacks & Your New Normal
I’m excited to be presenting Self-Tracking with Dawn Nafus at SXSW 2017 in March in Austin Texas. Self-Tracking: Wearables, Hacks & Your New Normal http://schedule.sxsw.com/2017/events/PP67816 There is an explosion of self-directed tracking on smartphones and wearable devices. A whopping 110 million wearable sensors shipped in 2016. This session is a book talk by the […]
Review of “The Age of Sharing” by Nicholas John
This is my review essay on “The Age of Sharing”, published in Culture Digitally. Nicholas John’s fabulous new book The Age of Sharing dives into the concept of sharing as the key metaphor of our moment. Sharing, John argues, has come to refer to “our technologically mediated social lives; about our economic lives as […]
Keynote–The Social Lives of Personal Data: Communicative Figurations in the Rise of Self-Tracking
I gave this keynote address at the “Communicative Figurations” conference at the University of Bremen in December 2016. Today smartphones and wearable devices help people to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Over one hundred million wearable sensors were shipped globally last year to help people gather data about their lives. This […]