Wearable technology in elite sport : a critical examination
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Wearable technology in elite sport : a critical examination
（Routledge research in sports technology and engineering）
Routledge, 2024
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
With many aspects of lives now quantified and this book will offer the first sustained critical evaluation of how wearable devices can quantify our bodies in ways that are deeply problematic.
The book offers the first critical interrogation of how wearable devices are used in elite sport settings.
The book will help self-trackers and practitioners understand how wearables might be used in a way that is sensitive to the challenges people face in their everyday lives.
Table of Contents
1. Elite sport and the cult of measurement. 2. Datafication and the cultivation of the neoliberal subject. 3. Producing data. 4. Exploring the representation and enactment of wearable data. 5. Sensing data: Navigating an algorithmic world. 6. The social and ethical implications of excessive datafication.
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