Wearable tech, bodies, and gender
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12912477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Wissinger (0000-0001-6873-5933, City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.12514 |
| OpenAlex | W2757113468 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 41 |
New forms of wearable technology are blurring the lines between technology and bodies, raising questions about personhood, selfhood, and what it means to be human. Consequently, scholars are examining these iterations of body/machine interface and human machine communication from a variety of angles. While fashion scholars focused primarily on garments and celebrating potential techno‐futures, media and communication scholars more critically examined how wearable tech mediates bodies and relationships. Social scientists are concerned with issues of labor, privacy, data ownership, and value, drawing on ethnographic studies of the Quantified Self (QS) community and the phenomenon of self‐tracking more generally. This scholarship is rooted in studies and theorizations of ubiquitous computing, feminist science and technology studies (STS), and fashion and dress as both ornament and second skin. Generally, it asks how wearable technology can augment the human body, how it affects human relationships to self and other, and whether wearable technology can promote human autonomy, when it is locked into commercial and power relationships that don't necessarily have the users' best interests at heart. The essay ends by briefly outlining of directions for further research, urging further investigation into wearable tech exhibiting gendered attitudes toward “femme” women, and calling for increased attention to issues raised by wearable technology's coming merger with the growing fields of biotech and synthetic biology
Autonomy · Clothing · Ethnography · Internet privacy · Personhood · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Wearable computer · Wearable technology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Law · Artificial Intelligence
Diversity and Inclusivity in the Age of Wearables
Supremacy of Symbiosis? The Gendered Affordances of Embodied Technology Design
Communicating identity through wearable technologies
Human-machine integration
Wearables for something good
No sweat
Género e auto-rastreio
Outperforming iBodies
Vital dataveillance
Integrating Social Scientific Perspectives on the Quantified Employee Self
Digital Fashion Engagement Through Affect, Personal Investments and Remix
Negotiating the practical ethics of 'self-tracking' in intimate relationships
Biocapital
How We Think
Affective Computing
How We Became Posthuman
Self-Tracking
Volatile Bodies
iSpy
Digital health and the biopolitics of the Quantified Self
The Computer for the 21st Century
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
Infoglut
Solar fashion
Datafication, dataism and dataveillance
Our metrics, ourselves
Screening the Body
Human-Machine Reconfigurations
Bodies that matter
Sousveillance
Critical Questions for Big Data
The surveillant assemblage
Self-tracking in the Digital Era
Training to self-care
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The Affective Turn
| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |