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.
Nyckelord: self-tracking, data, data mining, internet surveillance, self-improvement, technology, wearable tech, Media Studies
- Författare
- Lupton, Deborah
- Utgivare
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Utgivningsår
- 2016
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 240 sidor
- Kategori
- Samhälle
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781509500635
- Tryckt ISBN
- 9781509500604