Data selves (Book review)
Author(s)
Pavlidis, Adele
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2020
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I have written in a journal since I was in my late teens, at someone else’s suggestion. I have filled hundreds, or maybe thousands of pages with personal ‘data’ – thoughts, feelings, lists of food, spending, goals, hopes, dreams, exercise, and more. I have thrown them all away, not wanting to keep this personal data from the past, yet Lupton asks us to develop a ‘new ethics of affinity, care and compassion towards them’ [data] (p. 125), and I am hit by a wave of compassion for my ‘data selves’.I have written in a journal since I was in my late teens, at someone else’s suggestion. I have filled hundreds, or maybe thousands of pages with personal ‘data’ – thoughts, feelings, lists of food, spending, goals, hopes, dreams, exercise, and more. I have thrown them all away, not wanting to keep this personal data from the past, yet Lupton asks us to develop a ‘new ethics of affinity, care and compassion towards them’ [data] (p. 125), and I am hit by a wave of compassion for my ‘data selves’.
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Journal Title
Health Sociology Review
Volume
29
Issue
1
Subject
Public Health and Health Services
Sociology
Science & Technology
Social Sciences
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Health Policy & Services