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Can I read The Quantified Self on EtoBox?
The Quantified Self by Deborah Lupton is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Quantified Self about?
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.
Who reads The Quantified Self?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Deborah Lupton
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781509500611
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Science, Philosophy