With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new
adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self …

An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of
audio files into streamed experience. Spotify provides a streaming service that has been …

In today's world, numbers are in the ascendancy. Societies dominated by star ratings,
scores, likes and lists are rapidly emerging, as data are collected on virtually every aspect of …

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and
public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response …

It is not a new idea to suggest that our twenty-first-century technologies of data collection are
changing who we are. The idea of selfhood—already under scrutiny by philosophers and …

As online distractions increasingly colonize our time, why has productivity become such a
vital demonstration of personal and professional competence? When corporate profits are …

Meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes. The people who
make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners' horizons …

The past decade has seen an explosion in what is popularly known as the “sharing
economy,” perhaps most visibly in the realm of transport. Digital “shared mobility” platforms …

People's encounters and entanglements with the personal digital data that they generate is
a new and compelling area of research interest in this age of the ascendancy of digital data …

This article analyzes Spotify as a media company that operates at the intersection of
advertising, technology, music, and finance. In doing so, this article contributes to media …