Over the past decade, data-intensive logics and practices have come to affect domains of
contemporary life ranging from marketing and policy making to entertainment and education; …

Calculation and quantification have been critical features of modern societies, closely linked
to science, markets, and administration. In the past thirty years, the pace, purpose, and …

Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and
communications research: how digital media is changing society. Often, such questions are …

Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become
tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by …

Environments are increasingly becoming technologized sites of data production. From smart
cities to smart forests, digital networks are analyzing and joining up environmental …

Personal informatics systems for supporting health largely grew out of a" self"-centric
orientation: self-tracking, self-reflection, self-knowledge, self-experimentation, self …

Data activism, promoting new forms of civic and political engagement, has emerged as a
response to problematic aspects of datafication that include tensions between data …

A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and
technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities. Anglo-American …

Self-tracking has featured as a central practice in health promotion and healthcare for
centuries. People have paid attention to the details of their bodily functions and sensations …

Period tracking is an increasingly widespread practice, and its emphasis is changing from
monitoring fertility to encompassing a more broad-based picture of users' health. Delving …