Self-tracking : empirical and philosophical investigations /: empirical and philosophical investigations. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Btihaj Ajana.
• Editors: Ajana, Btihaj
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 613.70287; Self-monitoring; Physical fitness -- Measurement; Health -- Measurement; Self-evaluation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319653792
• Related ISBNs: 9783319653785
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