Publications

Authors:

Mori, Luca

Title:

Il flebile bisbiglio degli organi. Datificazione della salute e processi di costruzione identitaria

Year:

2019

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Italiano

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI SOCIOLOGIA

ISSN of journal:

0486-0349

N° Volume:

LX

Number or Folder:

3

Page numbers:

531-558

Keyword:

HEALTH, DATIFICATION, IDENTITY, DATA DOUBLE, SELF-TRACKING, MEDICALIZATION

Short description of contents:

The paper explores the phenomenon of health datification conceived as a growing trend toward tracking, quantifying and statistically analyzing everyday practices such as calories intaking, sleeping patterns, mood level, sport activities and others which are thought to be connected somehow to health maintenance. In so doing, the article sheds light on three different aspects of this manifestation. Firstly, it is argued that the process of health datification suggests a change in the relation between health and sickness. Traditionally conceived negatively as an absence of sickness, health seems now to be joined up with sickness in a continuum dangerously inclined toward the pathological side. Secondly, the paper analyzes the impact of self-tracking practices on the processes of identity building. In collecting data about their activities, physiological, and psychological states, individuals simultaneously elaborate an image of their self, a statistical doppelganger, called data double, who is thought to play an increasing role in the processes of identity building and self- managing. Thirdly, in the concluding remarks, a general discussion of the relation between self-tracking and the process of the medicalization of life is presented.

Web page:

https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1423/95507

Product ID:

112197

Handle IRIS:

11562/1010329

Last Modified:

November 15, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Mori, Luca, Il flebile bisbiglio degli organi. Datificazione della salute e processi di costruzione identitaria «RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI SOCIOLOGIA» , vol. LX , n. 3 , 2019 , pp. 531-558

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