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New parents routinely invest huge amounts of time, energy and money in sourcing as much information as they can about good parenting practices. This investment includes a range of apps, from pregnancy apps which provide normalized information about what to expect on a day-to-day basis during pregnancy, through to various Apped links to monitoring devices, both manual and digital, during pregnancy and infancy. Many of these apps now encourage parents to undertake specific monitoring and surveillance practices to capture large amount of data about their child. This data is often then aggregated by the corporations behind these reassuring apps – corporations which are driven by profit, and often see the aggregated data about the unborn or infants as a resource which can be aggregated, analysed and the outcomes eventually monetized. The commercial imperatives are often masked or overlooked by parents, who undertake this intimate surveillance with the very best intentions. In this talk, I argue against the widespread and indiscriminate push to track, survey, encode, aggregate and analyse a wide range of activities from conception to the early years of childhood.
Bio:
Tama Leaver is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internet Studies. His research currently spans ultrasound sharing and infancy online at one end, through to digital death at the other