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The Quantified Self 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Deborah Lupton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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.
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  1. ISBN-13
    978-1509500598
  2. Edition
    1st
  3. Publisher
    Polity
  4. Publication date
    September 7, 2016
  5. Language
    English
  6. File size
    376 KB
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Shortlisted for the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2017

"Lupton's book is an excellent primer for readers interested in data surveillance, self-tracking cultures, and the increasing push to metricize aspects of personal experience that were previously not considered in statistical terms. Lupton's insight that no one alive today is exempt from becoming subjectedto digatization lends her project great immediate urgenc."
The British Society for Literature and Science

"The Quantified Self offers an excellent overview of the breadth and depth of issues related to self-tracking cultures. It is not only a useful resource for scholars and practitioners focusing on the value of quantified data with regard to health and bodily practices, but also an invitation to use self-tracking research in new kinds of political initiatives. Ultimately self-tracking is defined as a means of communicating and challenging dominant interests and aims."
Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki

"Lupton's book is a fascinating read and I highly recommend it to researchers and practitioners who wish to gain a comprehensive account of self-tracking practices. Along with the commonly discussed topics of motivation and data representations, Lupton sheds light onto less explored topics, such as data-surveillance, while offering various theoretical foundations to support her arguments. Her writing is both visionary and provocative, and the book is a must read for researchers and practitioners of the Quantified Self movement."
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Director, Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University

"Impressive and comprehensive overview of the way in which people are tracking their lives using digital technologies"
Times Higher Education

"The Quantified Self is a careful, evenhanded survey of a trend that is on the cusp of seeming so ubiquitous that we'll soon forget how utterly specific the problems associated with this aspect of our sci-fi future are to the wealthy countries."
Inside Higher Education

About the Author

Deborah Lupton is Centenary Research Professor at the University of Canberra

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01M0QCSF7
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Polity; 1st edition (September 7, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 7, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 376 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 188 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 150950060X
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    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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Chris T Cherpas
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2016
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This is superbly written update and interpretation of the self-tracking culture.
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Eric Jain
4.0 out of 5 stars This is another "critical sociocultural analysis" of the self-tracking phenomenon ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2017
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This is another "critical sociocultural analysis" of the self-tracking phenomenon, similar to  Quantified  and  Self-Tracking . Lots of food for thought, but not a book that was written for practitioners.
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Cliente Amazon
4.0 out of 5 stars Useful book
Reviewed in Italy on January 30, 2017
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The Quantified Self gives a general, wide and updated view about the practices related to the gathering, processing and flowing of users' data. I found it useful for analyzing fitness apps' users and "prosumption" from a sociological perspective, although Lupton doesn't go deep into these topics.
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Mr. K. A. Potapov
4.0 out of 5 stars A helpful and accessible survey
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2016
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I was a bit worried when I'd realized I'd bought a "sociological critique", but this is not THAT kind of book. There are only a few pages on Foucault and even those avoid the usual secret-tree-house word games so often polluting work in the humanities.

Lupton is lucid and erudite: speaking clearly to number of possible audiences. She deals with the political and sociological issues at stake in different kinds of self-tracking with levity and impartiality (excepting the book's post-script).

This is not so much an analysis as a survey of the field. Not quite ethnographic but certainly enlightening and comprehensive. The book gives a brief digest of how the QS started, what it stands for and the multiplicity of views within the movement. This is not a technical book and Lupton does not collect any data nor is there a particular evaluation of individual tools - it is a qualitative exploration of key themes emerging from the field.

Rather refreshing to read something so clear sighted rather than cheerleading like "Nudge" or condescending and doom-laden like Morozov or Yuval Harari
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