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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Quantified Self, The
Author: LUPTON DEBORAH
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 22/04/2016
Imprint: POLITY
Price: $35.95
Publishing status: Active
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 ground-breaking book, Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood, human embodiment and the value of data that underpin them. The book incorporates discussion of the consolations and frustrations of self-tracking as well as the proliferating ways in which people s personal data are now used beyond their private rationales. Lupton outlines the ways in which the information that is generated by self-tracking now taken up and repurposed for commercial, governmental, managerial and research purposes. Self-tracking has broader implications, therefore, for the ways in which personal data practices are intertwined with big data politics.
ISBN: 9781509500604
Dimension: 216mm X 138mm
Pages: 240