Pubblicazioni

Autori:

Mori, Luca

Titolo:

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

Anno:

2019

Tipologia prodotto:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Lingua:

Italiano

Formato:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Nome rivista:

RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI SOCIOLOGIA

ISSN Rivista:

0486-0349

N° Volume:

LX

Numero o Fascicolo:

3

Intervallo pagine:

531-558

Parole chiave:

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

Breve descrizione dei contenuti:

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.

Pagina Web:

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

Id prodotto:

112197

Handle IRIS:

11562/1010329

ultima modifica:

15 novembre 2022

Citazione bibliografica:

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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