Lifelogging (eBook)

Dr. Stefan Selke is a professor for the field of studies “societal transformation” at the Furtwangen University (HFU), vice dean of the faculty for “Health, Safety, Society” as well as research professor for “Transformation Processes in Society”.

Contents 5
1Introduction. Lifelogging—Disruptive Technology and Cultural Transformation—The Impact of a Societal Phenomenon 8
Popular everyday life experiences—a lifelogging typology 12
Categorising this phenomenon 14
Structure of this anthology—overview of the articles 19
Conclusion and outlook 26
References 27
IFundamentals 29
2 Lifelogging and Vital Normalism. Sociological Reflections on the Cultural Impact of the Reconfiguration of Body and Self 30
1 Lifelogging: Setting the self in motion? 32
2 Idiosyncrasies of modern life: a short outline 34
3 Normalism as a form of life 37
4 Conclusion 43
References 45
3 Lifelogging. A Project of Liberation or a Source of Reification 48
1 Introduction 48
2 Lifelogging as a project of liberation or alienation 49
3 Diagnosing reification: Lukács, Habermas, Honneth 51
4 Separation as basis for reification: Adorno 55
5 The Totalization of Reification 58
6 Lifelogging as an alienated reaction to reification 61
References 62
4 You are Your Data: Self-Tracking Practices and Concepts of Data 65
1 Introduction 65
2 Representations of quantified self-tracked data 68
3 Self-tracking data practices and interpretations of data 71
4 Data practices and control 73
5 Human data portraits 76
6 Conclusion 79
Acknowledgement 80
References 80
5 21st Century Men and the Digital Amalgamation of Life. A Science and Technology Perspective on Lifelogging 84
Introduction: Lifelogging—Hype and Hope 84
1 Use of Lifelogging Technologies: Follow the Hype 88
1.1 Technology and Action 88
1.2 Lifelogging as Daily Routine and Practice 90
1.3 Forms of Hyper-Performance 91
2 Development of Lifelogging Technologies: Unfolding the Hype 92
3 (Technological) Paradigm of Lifelogging: Stabilise the Hype 97
4 Summary: Trust in Hype? 104
References 107
IIExperiences—Case Studies 112
6 Capturing the Ordinary: Imagining the User in Designing Automatic Photographic Lifelogging Technologies 113
1 Introduction 113
2 Conceptualisation of lifelogging and its users within an interdisciplinary field 114
3 Thinking like a lifelogging camera developer: themes and perspectives 120
3.1 Theme 1. Documenting a lived and embodied world 120
3.2 Theme 2. The idea of a cognitive disembodied memory 122
3.3 Theme 3. The possibility of a more authentic and realworld outside the body 123
4 Perspectives on visual lifelogging: an alternative theory 125
5 Conclusions 127
References 128
7 Deathlogging: Social Life Beyond the Grave. The Post-Mortem Uses of Social Networking Sites 131
1 Mourning and Online practices 133
1.1 Death in the Digital Era: visibility replaces denial 133
1.2 Post-mortem digital existence in question 136
2 Reconfiguring the mourning process in the digital age: disconnecting and online practices connecting with the dead 138
2.1 Disconnecting with the deceased and removing theirtraces 139
2.2 Creation of online dedicated memorial spaces: faithfulnessto the deceased and semantic concordance 142
2.3 The mise en scène of new rituals and expressions of grief 145
3 Discussion points and conclusion: 148
References 149
8 Lifestories as a Lifelogging-Project: Russian Émigré Bloggers and Their Life Stories 152
1 Toward linguistic analysis of personal e-narratives 152
2 Conceptual Framework 153
2.1 Narrative 153
2.2 Modalities and other characteristics of an(autobiographical) narrative 154
2.3 Narrators as authors and as personalities 156
3 Research methodology 158
4 Empirical material 162
5 Analysis 164
5.1 Content analysis 164
5.2 Egocentricity and Locus of Control 166
5.3 Emotional and evaluative dimension 169
5.4 Literary and artistic dimension 170
5.5 Logical and reflexive aspects 171
6 Personal e-narrative as a tool for social adjustment 172
7 Conclusion 176
References 177
9 Making Emotions Count: The Self-Tracking of Feelings (Extended Abstract) 179
1 (Emotional) Self-Tracking as Practice of Self- Examination (Selbstthematisierung) 180
2 Making Emotions Count: Self-Tracking Programs Focusing on Emotion 181
3 Positioning Emotional Self-Tracking within Current Analyses on the Development of the Social Regulation of Emotions 184
References 185
10 Built Environment, Physical Activity and Social Participation of Older People. Is Lifelogging an Effective and Valuable Assessment Method? 188
1 Background 188
2 The research topics: Introduction and common measurement methods 189
3 Putting the pieces together: Challenges in studying older people’s activity and social participation in their living environment 193
4 Lifelogging: Wearable cameras as a novel approach in health behaviour research 195
5 Advantages and disadvantages of using wearable Lifelogging cameras 196
6 Conclusion 198
References 199
III Quantification—Knowledge 204
11 Self-Monitoring. Embodying Data and Obliviating the lived body!? 205
1 Introduction 205
2 Methodology 205
3 Findings and Argument 206
4 Conclusion 208
References 209
12 Reflect Yourself! Opportunities and Limits of Wearable Activity Recognition for Self-Tracking 211
Abstract 211
1 Introduction: Activity Recognition for Self-Tracking 212
2 Preliminary Systematization and Introduction of Two Case Studies: Self-reflection as an Interactive Process 213
3 Understanding Actions as an Object of (Self-)Reflection 216
3.1 Introduction to a Theory of Action Perspective 216
3.2 Actions as a Construct of Interpretations 218
3.3 Conclusion of the Theoretical Discussion 221
3.4 Action Theory with Respect to Activity RecognitionTechnology 222
4 Towards a Critical Design: How to Really Support Self-Reflection 225
4.1 Design Theory: Interdisciplinary Approaches for DesignResearch 225
4.2 Towards a Better Design 227
4.3 Conclusion: Possibilities and Limits 229
References 230
13 Effects of Quantified Self Beyond Self- Optimization 232
1 The Quantified Self Discourse 234
2 Optimization 235
3 Quantification 237
4 Discussion 241
References 244
14 Measuring the Entrepreneur of Himself. Gendered Quantification in the Self-Tracking Discourse 246
1 Introduction 246
2 Technologies of the quantified self 247
2.1 The universal platform 249
2.2 Sports 250
2.3 Biotracking 250
3 Measuring the enterprising self 251
3.1 Optimizing the enterprise of the self 252
3.2 Cybernetic accounting for the enterprise of the self 253
3.3 Economized self-realization 255
4 Enterprising masculinity 256
5 Conclusion 259
References 261
15 Calorie Counting or Calorie Tracking. How Quantified Self Transforms Feminized Bodily Practices Into New Ways of Performing Masculinity 264
1 Introduction 264
2 “Be the man with the online plan”—‘Manly Dieting’ 265
3 “Self-tracking tools are a ‘guy thing’.”—the Gender of Self-Tracking 268
4. “…too damn busy…”—Self-Tracking in relation to financial resources and available time 269
5 “Everything that needed to be measured…”—the History of Self-Tracking 270
5.1 … became female 273
6 Conclusion 275
References 277
16 Self-Tracking as Knowledge Production: Quantified Self between Prosumption and Citizen Science 279
1 Knowledge production for self-use: the self-tracker as prosumer 280
2 Quantified Self and science: the self-tracker as researcher 282
2.1 Citizen science 283
2.2 Self-tracking and citizen science 285
2.3 Self-tracking as personal science? 289
3 Conclusion 294
References 295
IVRisks—Visions 298
17 To Log or Not to Log? SWOT Analysis of Self-Tracking 299
1 Introduction 299
2 Background 300
3 SWOT Analysis 303
3.1 Strengths 304
3.2 Weaknesses 307
3.3 Opportunities 310
3.4 Threats 313
4 Discussion and Conclusion 315
References 316
18 The Emergence of Lifelogging and Thinglogging 320
Introduction: Enabled by? A reason why? 320
Moore’s Law, Bell’s Law And The Internet Of Things 322
Lifelogging 325
Progress on the 2020 Prediction 327
Thinglogging 332
Conclusion 334
References 335
19 Rational Discrimination and Lifelogging: The Expansion of the Combat Zone and the new Taxonomy of the Social 337
1 Introduction: ‘Zoomed’ thinking and new phenomena 337
2 Life with numbers: The capabilities of lifelogging 339
3 Life in an objectified reality: Pathologies of quantification 342
4 Life with rational discrimination: The new taxonomy of the social 347
5 Life with decision engines: The new social contract 356
6 Conclusion: Praise to unpredictability and zones of opacity 360
References 361
About the Authors 365