Index
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(2018), "Index", Ajana, B. (Ed.) Metric Culture, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 255-264. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-289-520181015
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INDEX
Abbott
, 121
Academic institutions
, 178
changes within
, 181–185
judgement of quality
, 179–181
presentation of self
, 186–191
promotion and hiring
, 181–185
Academic metrics and positioning strategies
changes within institutions
, 181–185
individual strategies
, 186–191
judgement of quality
, 179–181
presentation of self
, 186–191
promotion and hiring
, 181–185
transformation of the sector
, 179–181
Academic performance
gamification and
, 179, 189
quantification of
, 185
Accelerated rationalization
, 179
Acxiom
, 26
Agential capacities
exerting control
, 66–68
identifying patterns and achieving goals
, 68–70
self-improvement
, 65–66
self-tracking practices
, 64–70
Alibaba
, 28
Alipay (Alibaba’s payment app)
, 28
Amazon
, 28
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
, 30
The Analogue University
, 191
Android
, 164
Ant Financial
, 28
Apple Watch
, 25, 106
The Archaeology of Knowledge (Foucault)
, 163
Arguments for digitisation
, 46–47
Artificial Intelligence robots
, 231
Auckland University
, 31
Audit culture
, 4
Autoethnography
, 217
Autonomy
defined
, 201
self-governing capacities of
, 197, 200, 202, 209
Baihe (Chinese matchmaking service)
, 28
Barad, K.
, 61
Basis smartwatch
, 98
Bastow, S.
, 39
Bathgate, K.
, 14
Beck, U.
, 58
Beer, David
, 1, 3, 178, 191–193, 218
Bekkers, V.
, 51
Bentholm, Simon
, 105
Berg, Martin
, 80
The Best Insomnia Apps
, 164
‘Big Data’
, 111
Bio-citizenship
, 40–42, 41
Biometrics
, 236
Biometric tracking
, 218–219
Biopolitics
, 41, 236
Biopower
, 16–24, 41
Blair, Tony
, 15
Boden, R.
, 188
Bouckaert, G.
, 39
Bovbjerg, K. M.
, 24
Bramley-Ward Report
, 184
BT
, 17–18, 23, 31
Development Performance Review (DPR)
, 18
‘end-to-end performance management’
, 22
People Strategy
, 17
Calorie counting
practical adjustments
, 148–152
practical precision
, 144–148
practical temporality
, 141–144
Cambridge Analytica
, 26
Canguilhem, Georges
, 42
Capitalism
, 13
Car Inc.
, 28
Carter, R. G.
, 188
Caulfield, J.
, 14
Celebrification
, 190
Celebritisation
, 190
Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave paintings
, 186
China
citizenship and social credit
, 27–31
measuring performance in
, 27–31
Sesame Credit system
, 30
social credit system
, 4, 11
State Council
, 29
universal ranking system, constructing
, 13
Choe, E. K.
, 78
Chua, J. C.
, 139
Chun, W. H. K.
, 159
Citizenship
big data as a technology of
, 30
China
, 27–31
digitisation of welfare and
, 49–53
Internet as a technology of
, 29
Civic virtues in the digital era
, 51–52
Clinical-integrated home monitoring (KIH) project
, 44
Clover, C.
, 30
Comber, R.
, 139
Computer technologies
, 12
Concept imperialism
, 235, 245–246
The Condition of Postmodernity (Harvey)
, 13
Conglomerates, defined
, 221
Consumerism
, 228
Contemporary society of ratio
, 241–243
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM)
, 120
self-monitoring blood glucose levels through
, 123–125
surveillance underpinning the use of
, 129–130
Contract management
, 14
Cordray, Julia
, 27
Corruption
, 12
Council of the Australian National University
, 184
Coveney, C.
, 159
Coveney, J.
, 150
Crawford, R.
, 150
Creemers, Rogier
, 29–30
Critical marketing theory
, 160–162
Cruikshank, Barbara
, 16
Culture
audit
, 4
defined
, 159
Danholt, P.
, 132
Danish University
, 23
Data
digital technologies and
, 2
metric culture and
, 8
‘real-time’
, 8
self-tracking activities and
, 2
Data brokerage industry
, 228
Data ethics
, 217–231
Data imperialism
, 229
Dean, Mitchell
, 24
De coniecturis (DC) (Cusa)
, 237
De docta ignorantia (DI) (Cusa)
, 237
De la Rocha, O. L.
, 139, 145, 152
Democracy
, 12
Denmark
current governance tendencies in
, 39
digital strategies and
, 38
digitisation process in
, 39, 52
eGovernment programme in
, 51
eGovernment strategy of Digital Welfare, 2016-2020
, 4–5
ePregnancy programme in
, 41–42
IT University
, 23
Ministry of Finance
, 15
public sector Internet usage in
, 39–40
welfare state in
, 38, 42
Diabetes
insulin-dependent
, 119
treatment of
, 119
type
, 1, 119
type
, 2, 119
Didziokaite, G.
, 83
Dieting
calorie counting
, 141–152
exploring practices of
, 139–140
food practices related to
, 139
understanding practices through STS perspective
, 140–152
Digital era governance (DEG)
, 39
Digital health
, 52–53
sleep and
, 162–163
sleep apps and
, 162–163
Digital health technologies
, 163
Digitally engaged students
, 202–213
Digital technologies
, 2
Digital Welfare: Empowerment, Flexibility and Efficiency (The Danish Agency for Digitisation)
, 38
Digitisation of welfare
appointment of responsibility of actions regarding
, 47–49
arguments for
, 46–47
bio-citizenship
, 40–42
citizenship and
, 49–53
descriptions of ideal practices
, 49–53
digital health
, 52–53
as ‘digital highway’
, 51
digital solutions to welfare problems
, 45–46
digitisation as a dispositive
, 42–43
dispositive
, 42–43
ePregnancy
, 40–42
health technologies
, 40–42
new civic virtues in the digital era
, 51–52
overview
, 38–40
schism between technologies as empowering and technocratic governing
, 50–51
Domestic violence
, 12
‘dot-com’ collapse
, 17
Driessens, O.
, 190
Drucker, Peter
, 24
Duffy, B. E.
, 190
Dunleavy, P.
, 39
Eating, exploring practices of
, 139–140
EBay
, 28
Edison, Thomas
, 102
EGovernment programmes
, 51
EHai.com
, 28
EHealth
, 118
Ejersbo, Niels
, 39
Empaperment
, 246–248
Empowerment
, 25–27
‘end-to-end process management’
, 17
Enterprise
, 200
defined
, 200
self-governing capacities of
, 197, 200, 202, 209
EPregnancy programme
, 4–5, 40–42
Ethics
, 201
European-style scholarly apprenticeships
, 188
Facebook
, 27, 189
Failing self-tracking
, 88–89
Fairfield, Rochelle
, 220
Financial Times
, 30
Fitbit
, 25
Fitbit Blaze activity and sleep tracking watch
, 106
Flash Glucose Monitoring (FGM)
, 120
self-monitoring blood glucose levels through
, 123–125
surveillance underpinning the use of
, 129–130
Forssell, A.
, 248
Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA)
, 157
Foucauldian discourse theory
, 163
Foucault, Michel
, 16, 41, 163, 199, 213, 236
‘conduct of conduct’
, 200
on governmentality
, 31–32
‘smallscale models of power’
, 199
technologies of the self
, 78
Freestyle Libre® (FSL)
, 121
Giddens, A.
, 58
Goal-driven self-tracking
, 85–86
Goffman, E.
, 191
‘Goodhart’s Law’
, 14
Google Play
, 164
Governing through freedom
, 16
Governmentality
, 200
Great Britain
Conservative government in
, 14
McKinney Rogers and
, 16
NPM
, 14
‘The Next Steps’
, 14
Greenfield, Dana
, 100
Greiffenhagen, C.
, 83
Greve, Carsten
, 39, 42
Gross national happiness
, 12
Hacking, Ian
, 3
Hamann, T.
, 199
Harvard Business Review
, 17
Harvey, David
, 13
Health 2.0
, 118
Healthcare
eHealth
, 118
Health 2.0
, 118
mHealth
, 118
models of
, 118
Healthline
, 164
Health technologies
, 40–42
Hemmingsson, O.
, 248
Heseltine, Michael
, 14
Higher education
‘accelerated rationalization’ in
, 179
institutions
, 177
High Pay Commission
, 18–19
Hirsch, Jorge
, 186
Homburg, V.
, 51
Hoohout, J.
, 139
Human Data Commons Foundation
, 217
founded in
, 219
grassroots mentality
, 220
small-scale operation
, 220
Human rights
, 12
IBM
, 2
Individuals
quantifying
, 25–27
rating
, 25–27
surveillance or empowerment
, 25–27
Insulin-dependent diabetes
, 119
Intel
, 26
Intellectus
, 235, 239–241
Internet
, 190
IPhones
, 164
Jolson, M. A.
, 183
Kaplan, R.
, 17–19
Katz, D. A.
, 182–183
Keller, Reiner
, 43
Kelly, Kevin
, 101
Kerr, S. J.
, 139
KGB
, 29
Knowledge sharing
, 113–114
Kristensen, Dorthe Brogård
, 99
Kvist, J.
, 42
Langstrup, H.
, 52
Lapka environmental sensors
, 106
Lash, S.
, 58
Law, J.
, 127
Leuphana University
, 85
Lumo Back posture tracker
, 106
Lupton, D.
, 118, 160, 163, 201, 206
Luthans, F.
, 182–183
Lynch, M.
, 140
Margetts, H.
, 39
Martin, A.
, 140
Martin, Emily
, 24
Matviyenko, S.
, 172
McKinney, Damian
, 16
McKinney Rogers
, 16, 31
Meadows, R.
, 159
Mehlman
, 228
Meißner, Stefan
, 79
Merleau-Ponty, M.
, 159
Metcalfe, A.
, 187
‘metric culture’
, 1–9
Metric Power (Beer)
, 178
Metrics
, 16–24
and biopower
, 16–24
controlling populations by using
, 16–24
managing professionals by using
, 16–24
quantitative
, 11, 12
MHealth (mobile technology health)
, 118, 163
Micro-powers
, 130–131
Miller, N.
, 187
‘Mission Leadership Dashboard’ technique
, 16–17
Modernity
, 242
Moisander, J.
, 161–162
Mol, A.
, 119–120, 127
Morgan, D.
, 187
Morrish, Liz
, 23
Moses, I.
, 184
Moynihan, P.
, 139
MyFitnessPal
, 7, 83, 137
calorie counting
, 141–152
exploring practices of dieting
, 139–140
understanding practices of dieting through STS perspective
, 140–152
Nafus
, 100
Nafus, D.
, 26
Neoliberal governmentality
, 197, 200
See also Governmentality
Neoliberalism
, 199
in everyday life
, 199–202
Foucault on
, 199
Neo-Weberian state (NWS)
, 39
Newcastle University
, 23, 191, 192
‘Raising the Bar’
, 24
New Public Management (NPM)
, 4, 12, 14
Nicholas of Cusa and
, 235–250
performance indicators and rise of
, 13–16
privatisation and
, 244
quality in
, 245
rationality in
, 236
in Sweden
, 243–245
New Scientist
, 30
New York Stock Exchange
, 28
‘The Next Steps’
, 14
NHS
, 15
Nicholas of Cusa
, 8–9, 235, 236–250
concept imperialism
, 245–246
contemporary society of ratio
, 241–243
empaperment
, 246–248
intellectus
, 239–241
‘learned ignorance’
, 237
not-knowing
, 236–237
NPM in Sweden
, 243–245
ratio
, 238–239
remote controlling public services
, 248–250
Nietzsche, Friedrich
, 231
Niva, M.
, 148
Non-governmental organisations
, 14, 16
Nordic welfare ideology
, 42
Nordic Welfare society
, 37
Norton, D.
, 17
Not-knowing, Nicholas of Cusa
, 236–237
Novas, C.
, 41
OECD
, 47
Olivier, P.
, 139
1-Person-Laboratory (1PL) of QS community
beyond
, 111–114
exemplifying
, 103–105
inside
, 102–107
instrumentation
, 105–107
knowledge sharing
, 113–114
methodological setup
, 105–107
operating
, 105–107
overview
, 98–99
personal discovery as empowering practice
, 111
reflections on
, 107–111
requisite competencies
, 113
search for evidence on scale of individual person
, 112–113
Online dieting
, 138
Organisations, NPM of
, 4
Over-examined life
, 2
Oxford English Dictionary
, 186
Oxford University
, 29
Palmer, Chelsea
, 220
Pantzar, M.
, 83
Paradeise, C.
, 180
Peeple app
, 27
People living with diabetes
embodied actions
, 127–129
individual strategies enacting micro-powers
, 130–131
overview
, 118–121
self-awareness and reflexivity
, 125–127
self-monitoring blood glucose levels through CGM and FGM systems
, 123–125
surveillance underpinning the use of CGM and FGM
, 129–130
Performance indicators (PIs)
, 11
expansion in
, 12
and the rise of NPM
, 13–16
Philips
, 26
Pickard, S.
, 123, 132
Playful self-tracking
, 86–88
Pollitt, C.
, 14, 39
Pols, J.
, 132
Pooley, J. D.
, 190
Populations, controlling
, 16–24
Porter, Theodore
, 189
Power, in datasphere
, 227–230
Power, M.
, 148, 191
PowerSchool system
, 200, 210
Presentation of self
, 186–191
Privacy
in the datasphere
, 227–230
‘ubiquitous computing’ and
, 218
user-centric data
, 219
Professionals, managing
, 16–24
Project-driven self-tracking
, 85–86
Promotion and hiring
, 181–185
Public health policies
, 118
Public services, remote controlling
, 248–250
Pushed self-tracking
, 201, 206
QS 2013 Global Conference
, 100
QS companies
‘Conglomerates’
, 221–225
‘Devices’
, 221–225
‘Middleware Analytics’
, 221–225
‘User Platforms’
, 221–225
QS Copenhagen meetup group
, 99
QS Show & Tell talks
, 112
Quantified self
, 58, 197, 199, 201
Quantified Self (QS) community
, 6, 99–101
Quantified Self (QS) movement
, 2, 4, 13, 59, 82
Quantified Self practices
, 5
Quantified Self Report Card (HDC)
, 8, 217
for
, 2018, 230–231
balancing differences
, 225–226
categorical comparisons
, 220–225
encouraging industry best practices
, 230–231
evaluating readability
, 219–220
‘human readability’ of
, 219–220
ontological fatigue
, 226
power and privacy in datasphere
, 227–230
Quantitative metrics
, 12
Ratio
contemporary society of
, 241–243
Nicholas of Cusa
, 238–239
Real-time grade books
, 197–214
Reason
, 235
as calculating capacity
, 235, 236
intellectus
, 239–241
ratio and
, 235
western understanding of
, 236
Reflexivity, development of
, 125–127
Research
academic
, 178, 190
‘accelerated rationalization’ in
, 179
positioning strategies of
, 180
teaching and
, 184–185
Research narrative
, 226
Resonance
, 5–6
defined
, 81, 83
Rosa’s view on
, 80–83
‘Resonance’ (Rosa)
, 77
Resonant and mute self-tracking practices
, 91–92
Reyes, A.
, 26
Rockwater
, 17
Balanced Scorecard
, 18
Individual Scorecard
, 19
Rogers, A.
, 123, 132
Rosa, Hartmut
, 5–6, 77, 80
on resonance
, 80–83
on self-tracking
, 80–83
Rose, Nikolas
, 16, 41, 78, 200
Royal Marines’ Mission Command
, 16
Ruckenstein, M.
, 83
Sapience Analytics software
, 2
Saukko, P.
, 83
Science and technology studies (STS)
, 138
Scott, Geoff
, 19
Scott, J. M.
, 188
Secondary adjustments
, 191
Self
-branding
, 190
curated
, 190
-governance
, 189
presentation of
, 186–191
professional
, 186
-promotion
, 190
Self-awareness, development of
, 125–127
Self-improvement
, 65–66
Self-monitoring blood glucose levels through CGM and FGM systems
, 123–125
Self-tracking
analytical graph of world relationships
, 83–85
apps
, 59
data
, 3
digital diary
, 90–91
empirical results on mundane practices of
, 83–92
failing self-tracking
, 88–89
playful self-tracking
, 86–88
project or goal-driven self-tracking
, 85–86
resonant and mute self-tracking practices
, 91–92
Rosa’s view on
, 80–83
Self-tracking practices
, 5
agential capacities
, 64–70
exerting control
, 66–68
identifying patterns and achieving goals
, 68–70
mute
, 91–92
overview
, 58–61
resonant
, 91–92
self-improvement
, 65–66
Self-tracking techniques
, 2
Sesame Credit
, 28, 29
Sex trafficking
, 12
Shanghai stock market collapse
, 29
Sharon, T.
, 100, 110
Sherman, J.
, 26, 100
Shore, C.
, 179
Sleep
digital health discourses and
, 162–163
lack of
, 158
poor
, 158
sleep apps and. See Sleep apps
Sleep apps
analysis
, 164–171
critical marketing theory
, 160–162
cultural perspective
, 157–173
data
, 164
and digital health discourses
, 162–163
discourse analysis
, 163–164
overview
, 158–160
Sleep disorders
, 162
Sleep notes
, 169
Smartphones
, 164
Smullen, A.
, 14
Snowden, Edward
, 30
Social acceleration
, 80
Social capital
, 198
Social constructionism
, 43
Social credit
, 4
China
, 27–31
Social media
, 12
Sociology of knowledge approach to discourse (SKAD) analysis
, 37
Sociology of resonance
, 77–92
See also Resonance
Socrates
, 2
Stasi
, 29–30
Students
digitally engaged
, 202–213
‘high performing’
, 201
quantified selves
, 197, 199, 201
Subjectification, defined
, 199
Surgical weight management
, 138
Surveillance
, 25–27
underpinning the use of CGM and FGM
, 129–130
Sweden
NPM in
, 243–245
public sector in
, 243–245
Symantec
, 8
Talbot, C.
, 14
Tan, O.
, 139
Technological unconscious
, 218, 227
Tencent
, 28
Thatcher, Margaret
, 14
Thoenig, J.-C.
, 180, 191
Tillberg, Lotta
, 245, 249
Timmer, Justin
, 105
Tinkler, J.
, 39
Troia, Bob
, 98
Type 1 diabetes
, 119
Type 2 diabetes
, 119
Universities’ Council of Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission (CTEC)
, 184
University of Auckland
, 19, 22
University of Canberra
, 61
University of Hagen
, 85
User-centric data privacy
, 219
User privacy. See Privacy
User rights
, 219
Van Halteren, A.
, 139
Verbeek, P. P.
, 92
‘virtual wireless’ citizens
, 50–51
Vodafone
, 26
War on obesity
, 138
Wearable technology
, 25
Web 2.0 health-related apps
, 118
Web-based student information systems (SIS)
, 197
as ‘dataveillance’ infrastructure
, 200
effectiveness of
, 209
as neoliberal governance strategy
, 200
as neoliberal ‘technology of childhood government’
, 197, 199
portal
, 201
Weber, Max
, 242–243
Weight Watchers
, 138, 139
Welfare problems, digital solutions to
, 45–46
Westerberg, Ivarsson
, 248
Western capitalism
, 13
Western societies
, 2, 27
Whistleblowers
, 248
Whitson, J.
, 25
Wikileaks
, 30
Williams, S. J.
, 159, 160, 162–163
Willig, C.
, 163, 170
The Will to Empower (Cruikshank)
, 16
Wired magazine
, 25
Wolf, Gary
, 25, 101
Wright, Anne
, 100
Wright, S.
, 179
Zandbergen, D.
, 100, 110
Zeo sleep tracker
, 106
Zheping Huang
, 28–29
- Prelims
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Metric Culture and the Over-examined Life
- Chapter 2 Performance Management and the Audited Self
- Chapter 3 The Digitisation of Welfare: A Strategy towards Improving Citizens’ Self-care and Co-management of Welfare
- Chapter 4 ‘A Much Better Person’: The Agential Capacities of Self-tracking Practices
- Chapter 5 Resonating Self-tracking Practices? Empirical Insights into Theoretical Reflections on a ‘Sociology of Resonance’
- Chapter 6 The 1-Person Laboratory of the Quantified Self Community
- Chapter 7 Embodiment and Agency through Self-tracking Practices of People Living with Diabetes
- Chapter 8 Doing Calories: The Practices of Dieting Using Calorie Counting App MyFitnessPal
- Chapter 9 Sleep App Discourses: A Cultural Perspective
- Chapter 10 Academic Metrics and Positioning Strategies
- Chapter 11 Real-time Grade Books and the Quantified Student
- Chapter 12 A Quantified Self Report Card: Ethical Considerations of Privacy as Commodity
- Chapter 13 The Limits of Ratio: An Analysis of NPM in Sweden Using Nicholas of Cusa’s Understanding of Reason
- Index