The Data Citizen, the Quantified Self, and Personal Genomics

The rise of the quantified self and personal social genomics movements pose fundamental questions about the nature of citizenship that go well beyond the confines of reductive concepts of privacy. As we live more and more algorithmically through self-tracking, our identities are necessarily being ca...

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Published inQuantified
Main Authors Gregory, Judith, Bowker, Geoffrey C
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published The MIT Press 13.05.2016
Subjects
biosensing
Data citizen
environment
ethics
Interdisciplinary Studies
policy
privacy
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Summary:The rise of the quantified self and personal social genomics movements pose fundamental questions about the nature of citizenship that go well beyond the confines of reductive concepts of privacy. As we live more and more algorithmically through self-tracking, our identities are necessarily being caught up in the cloud. We maintain that by looking integrally at the “data citizen” we can move beyond reductive concepts of privacy and begin to construct a viable ethics for our brave new world. First, we explore the concept of the data citizen and its policy relevance. Taking the lens of the quantified self and personal genomics, we next discuss five settings in which we can discern the data citizen in action. Finally, we draw up policy recommendations and design principles derived from our notion of the data citizen.
ISBN:0262034174
9780262034173
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262034173.003.0012