The Quantified Self

The Quantified Self, Deborah  Lupton audiobook. ISDN43593019

Deborah Lupton

Genre:sociology

Language:English

Type:PDF book

Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Limited

Publication date:09.12.2022

Price:$80.95

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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 peoples 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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