Bringers of Order: Wearable Technologies and the Manufacturing of Everyday Life - Couverture rigide

Gilmore, James N.

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ISBN 10 : 0520410130 ISBN 13 : 9780520410138

Editeur : University of California Press, 2025

Synopsis

Wearable technology, including smartwatches, biometric trackers, and body cameras, are often touted as helpful tools that record, produce, and analyze data about daily life to improve our individual habits and health or to solve serious public issues. In this book, James N. Gilmore argues that these lofty promises mask forms of surveillance and power.

Charting the implementation of wearables in areas of accessibility, health, sports, labor, law enforcement, and infrastructure, Gilmore demonstrates how these devices have been positioned as authoritative means for producing knowledge about human activity. Drawing on news reporting, advertising, film and television, company reports, and legal policies, he shows how this knowledge production reproduces three distinct modes of power: normalcy, surveillance, and solutionism. Bringers of Order empowers readers to examine the complicated ways our devices reshape how we think about our lives and our ethics and why we should resist companies analyzing our personal data.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James N. Gilmore is Associate Professor of Media and Technology Studies in the Department of Communication at Clemson University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520410130
• ISBN 13: 9780520410138
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible