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The quantified self
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor at the University of Canberra
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781509500604
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Polity Press, (25 March 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 183
- Weight
- 272.16 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 213.4 x 137.2 x 17.8 mm
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