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Now Open for Booking:
Metric Culture: The Quantified Self and Beyond
7-9 June 2017, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Denmark.
Keynote speakers
Prof. Deborah Lupton (University of Canberra, Australia)
Prof. Rosalind Gill (City University London, UK)
Recent years have witnessed an intensive growth of systems of measurement and an increasing integration of data processes into various spheres of everyday life, so much so that it can be argued that we are now living in a ‘metric culture’. Encouraged by movements such as the Quantified Self, whose motto is ‘Self Knowledge through Numbers’, a growing number of people across the globe are embracing practices of self-quantification and tracking with the aim to assess and improve their health, productivity and wellbeing.
The overarching aim of this international conference is to critically engage with the nuanced aspects and multifaceted implications of living in a metric culture. This event will look at the ways data and metrics link to understandings and representations of self and identity, to issues of power and control, and to questions of value and agency. We will seek to interrogate the kinds of ontologies, relations and communities that are emerging out of the hybrid interweaving of body and technology in the context of the Quantified Self practices and beyond.
By bringing together relevant scholars who are engaged in the study of the social, political, cultural and ethical dimensions of self-tracking practices and related technologies, the conference aims to provide critical insights and nuanced reflections on the way metric culture is unfolding within and affecting the various spheres of our lives, and how it is reshaping our relation to our bodies, vitalities and surroundings.
Twitter: @MetricLife
Web: www.metric life.net
http://aias.au.dk/events/metric-culture-the-quantified-self-and-beyond/
For further information, please contact Lena Bering, Communications Officer [log in to unmask]
Many thanks,
Dr Kylie Baldwin (Conference Correspondent)
Senior Lecturer
Health Studies and Sociology
Reproduction Research Group
Allied Health Sciences
Hawthorne Building 0.18
De Montfort University
Faculty of Health & Life Sciences
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH
T: 01162577735
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W: http://dmu.academia.edu/KylieBaldwin
Tw: @drkyliebaldwin
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