Explores how personal lives and relationships are reorganized under market logic; gives language and history to the idea of the "self as commodity," directly aligning with the conceptual core of HumanStock.
Documents how "personal branding" has evolved into a widespread career/organizational behavior, demonstrating empirically that identity is often treated as a marketable asset.
Shows how personal data — behavior, habits, digital traces — is treated as a commodity: turned into tradable data goods. Supports the portion of your project about datafication and human-stock.
Engages with how social media and influencer culture blur authenticity with commodification — relevant to your critique of "value as visibility."
Empirical study showing how individuals present different "selves" on different platforms — illustrating the instability and multiple-version problem of identity under social / digital pressure.
Shows how participatory culture and influencer-led economies treat identity, visibility, and social presence as commodities — contemporary real-world evidence of the phenomena your art addresses.
Explores how biometric tracking and wearable devices turn biological human data into quantified, surveillable, and governable inputs — paralleling your project's themes of self-surveillance and data value.