Algorithmic skin: health-tracking technologies, personal analytics and the biopedagogies of digitized health and physical education

Sport, Education and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 133-151

  Williamson, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Analytics; Biopedagogy; Data; Dataveillance; Health tracking; Self quantification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912572206     PISSN: 13573322     EISSN: 14701243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2014.962494     Document Type: Article

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