05 Feb, 2018
HTNM Natasha Schüll Video Now Online
Natasha Schüll, cultural anthropologist at NYU and UC Berkeley alum, discussed how self-tracking devices have affected everyday lives. Drawing from her new book, Keeping Track: Sensor Tehnology, Self-Regulation, and the Data-Driven Life, she touches on how wearable sensor technology may be changing the human consciousness through mood-regulating apps.
From apps that track how many steps a person has taken to how much water they've drunk, Schüll questions the ethics of outsourcing self-knowledge and the ways in which these devices could be better mediated and improved.
Watch the video below.
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