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The Quantified Self
Deborah Lupton
出版
John Wiley & Sons
, 2016-09-07
主題
Social Science / Media Studies
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
1509500634
9781509500635
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nUwKDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.
