The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-tracking - Couverture souple

Lupton, Deborah

 
9781509500604: The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-tracking

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor at the University of Canberra

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9781509500598: The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-tracking

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1509500596 ISBN 13 :  9781509500598
Editeur : Polity Press, 2016
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