This article presents the results of a discourse analysis of press coverage on the Quantified Self (QS) movement in the German and British (online) press between 2007 and 2018. The analysis is driven by two questions: What discursive patterns can be discerned within this coverage? And, what characterizes the translation of the experimental practices and imaginaries of this pioneer community into an overall societal reflection of deep mediatization? In essence, the article shows that the QS movement becomes a ‘general signifier’ for a dystopian view of deep mediatization. So, while the QS movement itself understands its practices and community as self-empowering, self-reasoning, and experimental, the constructions of the QS movement in public discourse suggest the opposite. Paradoxically, however, another basic imaginary of the pioneer community is adopted and confirmed, namely that of the (simple) mutability of society as a consequence of digital media technologies.

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超越授权，实验和推理：围绕量化自我运动的公众话语

本文介绍了对2007年至2018年德国和英国（在线）新闻界对量化自我（QS）运动的新闻报道进行话语分析的结果。该分析受到两个问题的驱动：在此范围内可以辨别哪些话语模式覆盖范围？而且，该先锋社区的实验实践和想象转化为深度中介的整体社会反映的特征是什么？从本质上讲，该文章表明QS运动成为反乌托邦深层调解观点的“一般标志”。因此，尽管QS运动本身将其实践和社区理解为自我赋权，自我推理和实验，但QS运动在公共话语中的结构却恰恰相反。然而，自相矛盾的是