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SUMMARY:The Quantified Self at Work - Dr Phoebe Moore (University of Middl
 esex)
DTSTART:20161114T140000Z
DTEND:20161114T160000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Anne Alexander
DESCRIPTION:Technologies to track work and productivity have a long histor
 y\, starting with Frederick Taylor's scientific management and Frank and L
 ilian Gilbreths' fatigue and motion studies. While their research took pla
 ce in industrial conditions\, new technologies have emerged that allow for
  ever more intimate levels of analysis that go into the realm of the body 
 and physiology as well as emotions and even 'gut reactions' to situations.
  This session looks at the new world of work\, where surveillance and elec
 tronic performance monitoring overlap with health and fitness schemes at w
 ork\, moving beyond psychometrics and gamification. We will ask what the i
 mplications are with the newest technologies of the senses and how data pr
 oduced are increasingly becoming ways to know the self both by the self an
 d to others. How will we be judged as workers and citizens? Who is this ne
 w big brother of performance\, wellness and self tracking\, and should we 
 be afraid of him?\n\nDr Phoebe Moore writes about production\, technology\
 , and governance.  She is a Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University in the
  Law and Politics department and her current research analyses tensions be
 tween materiality and quantification as people are being tracked and monit
 ored at work from arthouses to warehouses. Dr Moore’s work looks at new 
 performance enhancement techniques beyond the track\, asking to what exten
 t wellness and productivity monitoring with wearable sensory technologies 
 could be used for surveillance over micro-conduct? Are new forms of work m
 onitoring part of the trend toward the gig economy where precarious workin
 g life has become the norm?\n\n \n\nOpen to all but Registration is requir
 ed: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-quantified-self-at-work-tickets-271
 44223102\n\n \n\nOrganised by Ethics of Big Data Research Group in collabo
 ration with The Work Foundation and InformAll.
LOCATION: Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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