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Experience and materialities of information on smart objects and digital platforms
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2020.1.37471Keywords:
Experience, Newmaterialism, Algorithm, Smart Objects, Digital PlatformsAbstract
This paper explores the digital materialities of information from the experience of datafication of anxiety and breathing Monitoring using the Spire Stone wearable. We present a report of personal use of the aforementioned wearable and also a descriptive analysis of informational production trajectory realized on body-algorithms-wearable associations. We argue that the materialities of the information refer more to the chains of action and practical consequences produced during the monitoring experience, than to the essences of the wearable-platform – whether representational (soft) or material (hard) ones. We suggest the notion of experience in William James as a complementary approach to studies that choose to explore the digital materialities of information within the dynamic process of their own formation, avoiding perspectives centered on the technical specificity of smart objects or based only on the human perception of their use.
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