Description: As people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. These data have many benefits, but they can also be accessed and exploited by third parties. In Data Selves, Deborah Lupton develops a fresh and intriguing perspective on how people make sense of and use their personal data, and what they know about others who use this information. Drawing on feminist new materialism theory and the anthropology of material culture, she acknowledges the importance of paying attention to practices, affects, sensory and other embodied experiences, as well as discourses, imaginaries and ideas in identifying the ways in which people make and enact data, and data make and enact people. Arguing that personal data are more-than-human phenomena, invested with diverse forms of vitalities, Lupton reveals significant implications for data futures, politics and ethics. Using rich examples from popular culture and empirical research, this book illustrates the power of data imaginaries, materializations and affects. Lupton's novel approach to understanding personal data will be of interest to students and scholars in media and cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, surveillance studies, and science and technology studies. Deborah Lupton is SHARP Professor and Leader of the Vitalities Lab at the University of New South Wales. 1 Introduction 2 More-than-Human Perspectives 3 Materialising Data 4 Doing Data 5 Sharing and Exploiting Data Final Thoughts Appendix References Index
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EAN: 9781509536429
UPC: 9781509536429
ISBN: 9781509536429
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Number of Pages: 80 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Data Selves : More-Than-Human Perspectives
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Personal & Practical Guides, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Web / Social Media, Media Studies, Privacy & Surveillance (See Also Political Science / Privacy & Surveillance), Social Aspects / General, Security / General, Digital Media / General, General
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Deborah Lupton
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Computers, Philosophy, Référence, Social Science
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
