The Quantified Self

摘要: With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents spread into a wide array social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'. In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses social, cultural political dimensions contemporary identifies concepts selfhood human embodiment value data that underpin them. incorporates discussion consolations frustrations self-tracking, as well about proliferating ways in which people's personal are now used beyond their private rationales. outlines how information is generated taken up repurposed for commercial, governmental, managerial research purposes. relationship between big politics, implications becoming ever more crucial.