Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Nafus, Dawn

Description

1. xi, 233 pages : illustrations; 18 cm

Summary

1. "Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. In this book, Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what it means when people turn their everyday experience into data."--Page [4] of cover.

Series statement

1. MIT Press essential knowledge series

Uniform title

1. MIT Press essential knowledge series.

Subject

1. Medical innovations > Social aspects
2. Massendaten
3. Datenauswertung
4. Körper
5. Information technology > Social aspects
6. Soziologie
7. Patient self-monitoring
8. Automatische Messung
9. Medical telematics
10. Self-monitoring
11. Selbstbeobachtung
12. Self-care, Health > Technological innovations

Contents

1. Welcome to the quantified self -- What is at stake? the personal gets political -- The quantified self as avocation -- The quantified self and the technology industry -- The quantified self and medicine -- Possible futures for the quantified self.

Call number

1. JFC 16-31

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Neff, Gina, 1971- author.

Title

1. Self-tracking / Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus.

Publisher

1. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. MIT Press essential knowledge series
2. MIT Press essential knowledge series.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Nafus, Dawn, author.

LCCN

1. 2015039937

ISBN

1. 9780262529129 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2. 0262529122 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFC 16-31