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Identity Prosumption and the Quantified Self Movement
1. Identity Prosumption and the
Quantified Self Movement
Jenny Davis (@Jup83)
*with Whitney Erin Boesel
(@phenatypical)
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3. QS According to Gary Wolf
From the languor of the analyst’s couch to the chatty
inquisitiveness of a self-help questionnaire, the dominant forms of
self-exploration assume that the road to knowledge lies through
words. Trackers are exploring an alternate route. Instead of
interrogating their inner worlds through talking and writing, they
are using numbers. They are constructing a quantified self.
Until a few years ago, it would have been pointless to seek self-
knowledge through numbers…Then four things changed. First,
electronic sensors got smaller and better. Second, people started
carrying powerful computing devices, typically disguised as mobile
phones. Third, social media made it seem normal to share
everything. And fourth, we began to get an inkling of the rise of a
global superintelligence known as the cloud
4. Making Sense of the Quantified Self
Prosumption: False dichotomy between
production & consumption
Identity Prosumption: False dichotomy between
subject & object
5. Identity Prosumption
(Mead, Cooley, Goffman, Burke et al., Smith-Lovin etc.)
• Conditions
• Self Relevant
• Interactive
• Layered
• Personal
• Group
• Identity category
6. Theorizing QS with Identity
Prosumption
• Prosume identity through data
• Prosume QS identity
• Prosume QS as identity category
7. Get your Mood on
(Alexandra Carmichael and Robin Barooah)
There is a significant difference between the knowledge that
we discover for ourselves, and knowledge that we receive
from others. If you have ever cooked a dish from a recipe,
you’ll know that simply reading the recipe doesn’t mean that
you know the dish it describes. You learn the dish by trying to
make it, by tasting as you go along and experimenting. Along
the way, the things that the author of the recipe could never
know – your local ingredients, your stove, your cooking style,
and your tastes, get incorporated into what you do, and the
dish becomes your own…So it is with self-knowledge. When
you monitor and experiment with your own moods and
emotions, you learn about yourself through direct experience,
and the knowledge you gain becomes part of who you are
