Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-169) and index.
Contents:
'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.
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"--Back cover.
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