The Quantified Self
Seiten
2016
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-0060-4 (ISBN)
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-0060-4 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor at the University of Canberra
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 ‘Know Thyself’: Self-tracking Practices and Technologies
2 ‘New Hybrid Beings’: Theoretical Perspectives
3 ‘An Optimal Human Being’: the Body and Self in Self-Tracking Cultures
4 ‘You are Your Data’: Personal Data Meanings, Practices and Materialisations
5 ‘Data’s Capacity for Betrayal’: Personal Data Politics
Conclusion
References
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.03.2016 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 137 x 213 mm |
Gewicht | 272 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5095-0060-X / 150950060X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-0060-4 / 9781509500604 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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