Index

Metric Culture

ISBN: 978-1-78743-290-1, eISBN: 978-1-78743-289-5

Publication date: 24 September 2018

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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