The Quantified Self (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781509500604)

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.

Author: Deborah Lupton
ISBN-10: 150950060X
ISBN-13: 9781509500604
Publisher: Polity Press
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2016
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2016