Self-Tracking Empirical and Philosophical Investigations /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ajana, Btihaj (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Social medicine.; Ethnography.; Big data.; Digital media.; Science and Technology Studies.; Medical Sociology.; Big Data/Analytics.; Digital/New Media.

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 Sel...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.