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The Quantified Self

By Deborah Lupton

The Quantified Self Law

The Quantified Self

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2016-03-25
Publication Date:
2016-04-25
Publisher:
Polity Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
150950060X
ISBN13:
9781509500604
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
262 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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