quantification of the social

Question 1

what is datafication?

Answer 1

process of rendering activities as leaving quantifiable traces

process of turning things into data

Question 2

model of the sphere of datafication

Answer 2

community
care- making it work
capacities- tools
data

Question 3

self- tracking

Answer 3

1st scales, not smartwatches, phones etc
every action leaves a trace that can be acted upon
transformation of interactions into data can be valued and used for predictive activities
interested not in concrete data but patterns