Lupton, Deborah
The Quantified Self
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.
Keywords: self-tracking, data, data mining, internet surveillance, self-improvement, technology, wearable tech, Media Studies
- Author(s)
- Lupton, Deborah
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 240 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781509500635
- Printed ISBN
- 9781509500604