The quantified self : a sociology of sel-tracking / Deborah Lupton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lupton, Deborah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-actualization (Psychology).

Reflection (Philosophy).

Digital media--Social aspects.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

viii, 183 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2016.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

"Know thyself" : self-tracking technologies and practices

"New hybrid beings" : theoretical perspectives

"An optimal human being" : the body and self in self-tracking cultures

"You are your data" : personal data meanings, practices and materialisations

"Data's capacity for betrayal" : personal data politics

Final reflections

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-169) and index.

ISBN:

9781509500598

1509500596

9781509500604

150950060X

OCLC:

922155358