{"product_id":"the-quantified-self-by-deborah-lupton-9781509500598","title":"The Quantified Self","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. \u003cem\u003eThe Quantified Self\u003c\/em\u003e movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50519521296620,"sku":"9781509500598","price":119.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509500598-the-quantified-self-1.jpg?v=1790161050","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-quantified-self-by-deborah-lupton-9781509500598","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}