Deanna Day is a writer, editor, and historian living in Philadelphia. Her projects focus on the cultural influence of technology, science, and medicine, with a special emphasis on gender and reproduction. She is the managing editor of Somatosphere, and is currently working on a book about the history of the thermometer, medical self-tracking, and fertility.
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Exercise Without Failure: Building Fitness Apps As Narrative Games
Technologies have politics and games have aesthetics, but neither of these factors are immutable; there might still be time to rewrite the purpose of the iPhone’s accelerometer and motion co-processor.
by Deanna Day