The Quantified Self - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Polity PressISBN-13:9781509500604ISBN-10:150950060XUPC:9781509500604Book Category:Social Science, Computers, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Social AspectsSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.55Product ID:SCS4AADHFK
With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'.
In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood and human embodiment and the value of the data that underpin them.
The book incorporates discussion of the consolations and frustrations of self-tracking, as well as about the proliferating ways in which people's personal data are now used beyond their private rationales. Lupton outlines how the information that is generated through self-tracking is taken up and repurposed for commercial, governmental, managerial and research purposes. In the relationship between personal data practices and big data politics, the implications of self-tracking are becoming ever more crucial.
In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood and human embodiment and the value of the data that underpin them.
The book incorporates discussion of the consolations and frustrations of self-tracking, as well as about the proliferating ways in which people's personal data are now used beyond their private rationales. Lupton outlines how the information that is generated through self-tracking is taken up and repurposed for commercial, governmental, managerial and research purposes. In the relationship between personal data practices and big data politics, the implications of self-tracking are becoming ever more crucial.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Polity PressISBN-13:9781509500604ISBN-10:150950060XUPC:9781509500604Book Category:Social Science, Computers, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Social AspectsSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.55Product ID:SCS4AADHFK
Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor at the University of Canberra
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