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Quantified self
Quantified self refers both to the cultural phenomenon of self-tracking with technology and to a community of users and makers of self-tracking tools who share an interest in "self-knowledge through numbers".
most bodies of criticism tackle the issue of data exploitation and data privacy but also health literacy skills in the practice of self-tracking. (View Highlight)
Usually the data gathered by this practice of self-tracking can be accessed by commercial, governmental, research and marketing agencies.[32] (View Highlight)
Another recurrent line of debate revolves around "data fetishism". Data fetishism is a phenomenon evolving when active users of self-tracking devices become enticed by the satisfaction and sense of achievement and fulfillment that numerical data offer.[33] Proponents of such lines of criticism tend to claim that data in this sense become simplistic, where complex phenomena become transcribed into reductionist data.[34] This reductionist line of criticism generally incorporates fears and concerns with the ways in which ideas on health are redefined, as well as doctor-patient dynamics and the experience of selfhood among self-trackers. Because of such arguments, the quantified self movement has been criticized for providing predetermined ideals of health, well-being and self-awareness. Rather than increasing the personal skills for self-knowledge, it distances the user from the self by offering an inherently normative and reductionist framework (View Highlight)