The Quantified Self (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Polity Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2016
Authors:	D. Lupton
Dimensions:	220 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-5095-0060-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
LSN:	1-5095-0060-X
Barcode:	9781509500604

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