Article:
Von Quantifying und Coaching-Apps - Digitale Lebensführung zwischen Selbst- und Fremdkonstitution

Author(s): Schauerte, Eva

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The essay picks up Hannah Arendt’s diagnosis of the instability of the modern subject, which has led to a boom of self-help-literature within the 19th century. The article reflects upon some digital descendants of this genre: a series of self-help applications, the quantified-self-community, and a recently developed analysing tool for quantified data. From a media-archaeological perspective, the article not only enquires into the social and technological conditions of self-help in digital culture, but equally aims to discuss corresponding concepts of privacy and quantification.

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Schauerte, Eva: Von Quantifying und Coaching-Apps - Digitale Lebensführung zwischen Selbst- und Fremdkonstitution. In: Mediale Kontrolle unter Beobachtung, Jg. 5 (2016), Nr. 1, S. 1-21. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/13797.
@ARTICLE{Schauerte2016,
 author = {Schauerte, Eva},
 title = {Von Quantifying und Coaching-Apps - Digitale Lebensführung zwischen Selbst- und Fremdkonstitution},
 year = 2016,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/13797},
 volume = 5,
 address = {Freiburg},
 journal = {Mediale Kontrolle unter Beobachtung},
 number = 1,
 pages = {1--21},
}
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