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  title info:
    title: Self-Tracking
    sub title: Empirical and Philosophical Investigations
  name:
    name part: Ajana, Btihaj.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 155 p. 7 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides an empirical and philosophical investigation of self-tracking practices. In recent years, there has been an explosion of apps and devices that enable the data capturing and monitoring of everyday activities, behaviours and habits. Encouraged by movements such as the Quantified Self, a growing number of people are embracing this culture of quantification and tracking in the spirit of improving their health and wellbeing. The aim of this book is to enhance understanding of this fast-growing trend, bringing together scholars who are working at the forefront of the critical study of self-tracking practices. Each chapter provides a different conceptual lens through which one can examine these practices, while grounding the discussion in relevant empirical examples. From phenomenology to discourse analysis, from questions of identity, privacy and agency to issues of surveillance and tracking at the workplace, this edi ted collection takes on a wide, and yet focused, approach to the timely topic of self-tracking. It constitutes a useful companion for scholars, students and everyday users interested in the Quantified Self phenomenon. .
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction; Btihaj Ajana -- Chapter 2. Engagement and the Quantified Self: Uneventful relationships with ghostly companions; Paolo Ruffino -- Chapter 3. Apps as companions: How Quantified Self apps become our audience and our companions; Jill Walker Rettberg -- Chapter 4. Human/technology associations in self-tracking practices; Dorthe Brogård Kristensen and Carolin Prigge -- Chapter 5. Social media and self-tracking: Representing the 'health self'; Rachael Kent -- Chapter 6. Self-tracking as the mobilisation of the social for capital accumulation; Chris Till -- Chapter 7. The quantified workplace: A study in self-tracking, agility and change management; Phoebe Moore, Lukasz Piwek, and Ian Roper -- Chapter 8. Data privacy: Users' thoughts on Quantified Self personal data; Keith Spiller, Kirstie Ball, Arosha Bandara, Maureen Meadows, Ciaran McCormick, Bashar Nuseibeh and Blaine A. Price -- Chapter 9. Communal self-tracking: Data philanthropy, solidarity and privacy; Bithaj Ajana.
  note: edited by Btihaj Ajana.
  subject:
    topic: Technology-Sociological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Social medicine
  subject:
    topic: Ethnography
  subject:
    topic: Big data
  subject:
    topic: Digital media
  subject:
    topic: Science and Technology Studies
  subject:
    topic: Medical Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Ethnography
  subject:
    topic: Big Data/Analytics
  subject:
    topic: Digital/New Media
  classification: HM846-851
  classification: 303.483
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319653792
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65379-2
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    record creation date: 171003
    record change date: 20190617121122.0
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