Reading Terms and Questions
Data for Life: Wearable Technology and The Design of Self-Care?
Terms
Consumer Electronics Show
Digital health
Digital health summit
Lifestyle diseases
Drugs for life
Data for life
Fitbit
Self as database/database self
Fourth person experience
Dividual
Biopower
Molecularization
Responsibilization
Datafication
The “nudge”/digital nudge
Regime of anticipation
Choice architecture
Questions
1.What is digital health, and how does it shape our lives and visions of health? And what are some of the economic and health-care forces that are driving its growth?
- What are “lifestyle diseases,” and how are they related to “drugs for life” and “data for life.”
- What methods and data does Schüll use to support her argument?
- What do digital health designers and marketers mean when they say “every bite is a potential teaching experience?” Can you provide some examples from the article and your own life?
- How might we use the concepts of biopower, the dvidual, molecularization,choice making/responibilization, and datafication help us understand digital health and the database?
- What is a regime of anticipation in the context of digital health, and how does the (digital) “nudge” fit in?
