Lifelogging: Digital self-tracking and Lifelogging - by Stefan Selke

By Stefan Selke

The following anthology supplies sound research to the theoretical class of the present societal phenomenon - among cutting edge, international altering and but disruptive expertise, in addition to societal and cultural transformation.

Lifelogging, electronic self-tracking and the real-time chronicling of man’s lifetime, is not just a appropriate societal subject on this planet of analysis and educational technological know-how nowadays, yet can be present in literature, cultural pages of the written press and the theatre. The spectrum of Lifelogging levels from sleep, temper, intercourse and paintings logging to factor and Deathlogging. This results in numerous questions: How does one dwell in a knowledge society? Is “measured” guy instantly additionally “better” guy? And if this is the case, what's the rate? Do new different types of fact or rules of social class enhance because of Lifelogging? How does the “social view” on issues swap? The authors during this anthology offer insightful solutions to those urgent questions.

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Lifelogging assembles various practices of life-protocolling such as self-monitoring, human or self-tracking, e-memory and forms of digitalized and digitalizing self-control (sousveillance) that are mainly grounded in the quantified self movement (cf. Selke 2014, pp. , p. , 33). 5 This change addresses the individual more and more in its everyday, and therefore “normal activities”, thereby fostering communications to become increasingly independent of time and place. 0. On the one hand, we are facing a fundamental integration of digitalization media into everyday life, while on the other hand, lifelogging indicates how the quality of data has changed.

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