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This book roots the bringing together of ethnography and design
firmly in social science theory, showing readers how to best use
theory in design ethnography and how to develop a coherent
relationship between research and practice. It promotes
interdisciplinarity and collaboration, and takes design ethnography
beyond the content of the 'project' to ask how it contributes to a
wider agenda for a better world and the creation of ethical and
responsible futures.
Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements
of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications
of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we
inhabit, experience and imagine our everyday worlds and futures.
Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data
is emergent, present and characterized by a sense of uncertainty,
the authors argue for a new interdisciplinary approach to
understanding the implications of self-tracking, which attends to
its past, present and possible future. Building on social science
approaches, the book accounts for the concerns of scholars working
in design, philosophy and human-computer interaction. It
problematizes the body and senses in relation to data and tracking
devices, presents an accessible analytical account of the sensory
and affective experiences of self-tracking, and questions the
status of big data. In doing so it proposes an agenda for future
research and design that puts people at its centre.
This book roots the bringing together of ethnography and design
firmly in social science theory, showing readers how to best use
theory in design ethnography and how to develop a coherent
relationship between research and practice. It promotes
interdisciplinarity and collaboration, and takes design ethnography
beyond the content of the 'project' to ask how it contributes to a
wider agenda for a better world and the creation of ethical and
responsible futures.
Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements
of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications
of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we
inhabit, experience and imagine our everyday worlds and futures.
Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data
is emergent, present and characterized by a sense of uncertainty,
the authors argue for a new interdisciplinary approach to
understanding the implications of self-tracking, which attends to
its past, present and possible future. Building on social science
approaches, the book accounts for the concerns of scholars working
in design, philosophy and human-computer interaction. It
problematizes the body and senses in relation to data and tracking
devices, presents an accessible analytical account of the sensory
and affective experiences of self-tracking, and questions the
status of big data. In doing so it proposes an agenda for future
research and design that puts people at its centre.
Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and
research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond
academia. Yet to date there has been very little reflection amongst
scholars and practitioners in these fields concerning the
relationship between the theoretical and engaged practices that
emerge through such forms of scholarship. Theoretical Scholarship
and Applied Practice investigates the ways in which theoretical
research has been incorporated into recent applied practices across
the social sciences and humanities. This collection advances our
understanding of the ethics, values, opportunities and challenges
that emerge in the making of engaged and interdisciplinary
scholarship.
Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and
research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond
academia. Yet to date there has been very little reflection amongst
scholars and practitioners in these fields concerning the
relationship between the theoretical and engaged practices that
emerge through such forms of scholarship. Theoretical Scholarship
and Applied Practice investigates the ways in which theoretical
research has been incorporated into recent applied practices across
the social sciences and humanities. This collection advances our
understanding of the ethics, values, opportunities and challenges
that emerge in the making of engaged and interdisciplinary
scholarship.
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