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.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
240 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2016-03-25 |
| ISBN |
9781509500604 |
