The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking - Hardcover

Lupton, Deborah

 
9781509500598: The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1509500596 ISBN 13: 9781509500598
Verlag: Polity, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor at the University of Canberra

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509500596
ISBN 13 
9781509500598
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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