Minna Ruckenstein|Natasha Dow Schüll
The Datafication of Health
National Consumer Research Centre|University of Helsinki|New York University
past decade dataintensive logics practices come affect domains contemporary life ranging marketing policy making entertainment education every turn evidence datafication conversion qualitative aspects life quantified data datafication health unfolds number different scales registers including datadriven medical research public health infrastructures clinical health care selfcare practices purposes review focus mainly latter two domains examining scholars anthropology sociology science technology studies media communication studies begun explore datafication clinical selfcare practices identify dominant themes questions methodological approaches analytical resources emerging literature parsing three headings datafied power living data datahuman mediations conclude urging scholars pay closer attention datafication unfolding side various digital divides eg financial technological geographic experiment applied forms research data activism probe links areas datafication explicitly related health