| The Quantified Self Contributor(s): Lupton, Deborah (Author) |
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ISBN: 150950060X ISBN-13: 9781509500604 Publisher: Polity Press OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Computers | Social Aspects - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 158.1 |
| LCCN: 2015034998 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.55 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |