Deborah Lupton

Broschiertes Buch

The Quantified Self

Beschreibung

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 becomingever more crucial.

Autor

Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor at the University of Canberra

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity / Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A509500600
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781509500604
• ISBN-10: 150950060X
• Artikelnr.: 44322620

Rezensionen

"The Quantified Self offers an excellent overview of the breadth and depth of issues related to self-tracking cultures. It is not only a useful resource for scholars and practitioners focusing on the value of quantified data with regard to health and bodily practices, but also an invitation to use self-tracking research in new kinds of political initiatives. Ultimately self-tracking is defined as a means of communicating and challenging dominant interests and aims."
Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki

"Lupton's book is a fascinating read and I highly recommend it to researchers and practitioners who wish to gain a comprehensive account of self-tracking practices. Along with the commonly discussed topics of motivation and data representations, Lupton sheds light onto less explored topics, such as data-surveillance, while offering various theoretical foundations to support her arguments. Her writing is both visionary and provocative, and the book is a must read forresearchers and practitioners of the Quantified Self movement."
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Director, Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University