scholarly journals Why data is not enough: Digital traces as control of self and self-control

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Butler Reigeluth
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Francophone Literature ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Quantified Self ◽  
To Come ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
And Control ◽  
Gilbert Simondon

As an alternative to the seemingly natural objectivity and self-evidence of “data,” this paper builds on recent francophone literature by developing a critical conceptualization of “digital traces.” Underlining the materiality and discursiveness of traces allows us to understand and articulate both the technical and sociopolitical implications of digital technology. The philosophies of Gilbert Simondon and Michel Foucault give strong ontological and epistemological groundings for interpreting the relationships between technology and processes of subjectification. In this light, digital traces are framed as objects and products of heteronomous interventions, the logics of which can be traced through the programs and algorithms deployed. Through the empirical examples of “Predictive Policing” and “Quantified Self” digital traces are contrasted with the premises and dreams of Big Data. While the later claims to algorithmically correlative, predict and preempt the future by reducing it to a “what-is-to-come,” the digital trace paradigm offers a new perspective on how forms of self-control and control of the self are interdependent facets of “algorithmic governmentality.”

scholarly journals Co-evolving with self-tracking technologies

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 3624-3640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorthe Brogård Kristensen ◽  
Minna Ruckenstein
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Quantified Self ◽  
Use Of Self ◽  
Technology Market

Seen in a longitudinal perspective, Quantified Self-inspired self-tracking sets up “a laboratory of the self,” where people co-evolve with technologies. By exploring ways in which self-tracking technologies energize everyday aims or are experienced as limiting, we demonstrate how some aspects of the self are amplified while others become reduced and restricted. We suggest that further developing the concept of the laboratory of the self renews the conversation about the role of metrics and technologies by facilitating comparison between different realms of the digital, and demonstrating how services and devices enlarge aspects of the self at the expense of others. The use of self-tracking technologies is inscribed in, but also runs counter to, the larger political-economy landscape. Personal laboratories can aid the exploration of how the techno-mediated selves fit into larger structures of the digital technology market and the role that metrics play in defining them.

Gandhi’s Marvellous Revolution

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-119
Author(s):  
Imraan Coovadia
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
The Self ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Control

The chapter examines Gandhi’s mature conceptions of decolonization and social change, which he developed alongside his interpretation of Tolstoy and Tolstoy’s understanding of colonialism. Gandhi seems to have expected social transformation to come immediately, as a kind of miracle of consciousness, yet he also imagined change as an indefinitely protracted process, dominated by delay and reversion, as a counter to the clarity and swiftness of revolutionary upheaval. He was particularly concerned with conversion of the adversary and control of the self as the motors of social change. The chapter considers the arguments of Hind Swaraj and the ways in which Gandhi referred to the example of South Africa even when in India, as well as the extent to which questions posed by Tolstoy in the ‘Letter to a Hindoo’ shaped Gandhi’s thinking.

‘Care of the Self’ and Discipline in Smart Cities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost Alleblas ◽  
Steven Dorrestijn
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Self Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Control ◽  
Inside Out

What is the meaning of the ‘care of the self’ in Sensor Societies such as Singapore, where discipline and control seem to come first? Assessing sensoring and behaviour control in Smart Cities, Michel Foucault’s pivotal work on surveillance and power is still highly relevant. Applying this work on surveillance studies also needs to take into consideration Foucault’s later work on the care of the self, as well as revisit his work on power. This amounts to a framework of surveillance pulled apart and inside-out: from top-down hierarchical surveillance to lateral surveillance among people, and even to self-surveillance. Interwoven with this theoretical development is a reportage about the experience of walking the streets of Singapore with an eye to emerging forms of self-care in this situation of ubiquitous surveillance.

scholarly journals Integrating Social Scientific Perspectives on the Quantified Employee Self

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Calvard
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Quantified Self ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Organizational Environments ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
And Control

A key technological trend in big data science is that of the quantified self, whereby individuals can self-track their health and well-being using various sources of information. The aim of this article was to integrate multidimensional views on the positive and negative implications of the quantified self for employees and workplaces. Relevant human and social scientific literature on the quantified (employee) self and self-tracking were drawn upon and organized into three main influential perspectives. Specifically, the article identified (1) psychological perspectives on quantified attitudes and behaviors, (2) sociological perspectives on sociomaterial user construction, and (3) critical theoretical perspectives on digital power and control. This article suggests that the three perspectives are complementary and can be usefully integrated into an embodied sensemaking perspective. Embodied sensemaking views the employee as a self-conscious user of big data seeking to make sense of their embeddedness in wider digital and organizational environments. This article concludes with implications for protecting employee agency in tension with employers’ big data strategies for governing and managing the performance of quantified digital employee selves.

Preparation and Analytic of Intelligence Big Data for Smart Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 4853-4862
Author(s):  
Wessam Annajjar ◽  
Ahmed Muqdad Alnasrallah ◽  
Hanan Ali Alrikabi
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Smart System ◽  
Smart Systems ◽  
System A ◽  
Government Data ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Control

It is already true that smart system involving big data has drawn massive attention from researchers in analytic, decision makers, intelligence in smart city or system. As the speed of Information Technology (IT) and internet developing, become necessary to come up smart system meets all requirements of modern life. Smart system make the life of human beings more comfortable and easy. However people can get so much interest and highly useful benefits from using big data in smart system. A proposed new scientific paradigm is born in this study to get the advantage and avoid the disadvantage of existing smart systems. Some Important structure illustrated in this study including triad main issues that control any smart system such as big data that responsible to make avenues to success smart system. Valuable insight comes from big data should analytic and control under process before manipulate in intelligence phase to get right decision in regimes. There is no doubt that competition in the future in field of big data will open the horizon to evolve the smart system. This paper is aimed to illustrate a close up view about using the modern technologies that currently evolve with amazing acceleration like intelligence and big data utilities. Challenging of these three issues big data, intelligence and analytic are adopted to find the opportunities of integrate smart system that dealing with hazardous government data clouding in such system. State-of-the-art discussed in this paper and useful recommendation been put up within conclusion to overcome the problems regarding designing smart system.

Learned Helplessness and the Self-Control Model of Depression

1981 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 987-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald H. Rozensky ◽  
Susan Kravitz ◽  
Rebecca Unger
Keyword(s):  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Treatment Condition ◽  
Control Model ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Depressed Group ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
And Control

Self-reinforcement, one element of the self-control model of depression proposed by Rehm, was evaluated as to its relationship with Seligman's learned helplessness phenomenon. Within a nonclinical population, subjects were divided by their Beck Depression Inventory scores into a Non-depressed group and a Very Mildly Depressed group. Subjects in each group were exposed to one of three treatments, Learned Helplessness, Nonlearned Helplessness, and Control conditions based upon the Levine multidimensional discrimination task. Depressed subjects gave significantly more self-punishment and less self-reward than nondepressed subjects after exposure to the experimental conditions. A significant interaction of depressed X treatment condition and post hoc analyses suggest an explanation for the previously noted facilitation effects of learned helplessness and suggest a self-control inoculation against increased depression when normals are exposed to conditions of learned helplessness. Effects of the learned-helplessness experience are related to the self-control model of depression.

Relying on the self-control of instrumental others

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grainne Fitzsimons ◽  
Catherine Shea ◽  
Christy Zhou ◽  
Michelle vanDellen
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Control

Taking the "self" out of self control: What dogs can teach us about inhibiting behavior

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Miller ◽  
Kristina F. Pattison ◽  
Rebecca Rayburn-Reeves ◽  
C. Nathan DeWall ◽  
Thomas Zentall
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Control

From Container to Claustrum: Projective Identification in Couples

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Projective Identification ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intimate Partners ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
As If

This paper is a contribution to the growing literature on the role of projective identification in understanding couples' dynamics. Projective identification as a defence is well suited to couples, as intimate partners provide an ideal location to deposit unwanted parts of the self. This paper illustrates how projective identification functions differently depending on the psychological health of the couple. It elucidates how healthier couples use projective identification more as a form of communication, whereas disturbed couples are inclined to employ it to invade and control the other, as captured by Meltzer's concept of "intrusive identification". These different uses of projective identification affect couples' capacities to provide what Bion called "containment". In disturbed couples, partners serve as what Meltzer termed "claustrums" whereby projections are not contained, but imprisoned or entombed in the other. Applying the concept of claustrum helps illuminate common feelings these couples express, such as feeling suffocated, stifled, trapped, held hostage, or feeling as if the relationship is killing them. Finally, this paper presents treatment challenges in working with more disturbed couples.

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