Metric culture : ontologies of self-tracking practices /: ontologies of self-tracking practices. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Btihaj Ajana.
• Editors: Ajana, Btihaj
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Metric Culture and the Over-Examined Life; Btihaj Ajana 2. Performance Management and the Audited Self; Cris Shore and Susan Wright 3. The Digitisation of Welfare: A Strategy Towards Improving Citizens' Self-Care and Co-Management of Welfare; Nicole Thualagant and Ditte-Marie From 4. 'A Much Better Person': The Agential Capacities of Self-Tracking Practices; Deborah Lupton and Gavin J. D. Smith 5. Resonating Self-Tracking Practices? Empirical Insights into Theoretical Reflections on a 'Sociology of Resonance'; Karolin Eva Kappler, Agnieszka Krzeminska and Eryk Noji 6. The 1-Person Laboratory of the Quantified Self Community; Thomas Blomseth Christiansen, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen and Jakob Eg Larsen 7. Embodiment and Agency Through Self-Tracking Practices of People Living with Diabetes; Giada Danesi, Mélody Pralong and Vincent Pidoux 8. Doing Calories: The Practices of Dieting Using Calorie Counting App MyFitnessPal; Gabija Didžiokaitė, Paula Saukko and Christian Greiffenhagen 9. Sleep App Discourses: A Cultural Perspective; Antoinette Fage-Butler 10. Academic Metrics and Positioning Strategies; Janet Chan, Fleur Johns and Lyria Bennett Moses 11. Real-Time Grade Books and the Quantified Student; William G. Staples 12. A Quantified Self Report Card: Ethical Considerations of Privacy as Commodity; Chelsea Palmer and Rochelle Fairfield 13. The Limits of Ratio: An Analysis of NPM in Sweden Using Nicholas of Cusa's Understanding of Reason; Jonna Bornemark.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.46; Technology -- Social aspects; Metrology; Self-worship
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787439481; 9781787432895
• Related ISBNs: 9781787432901
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