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Self-tracking

Title
Self-tracking / Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus.
Author
Neff, Gina, 1971-
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

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Book/TextUse in library JFC 16-31Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Additional Authors
Nafus, Dawn
Description
xi, 233 pages : illustrations; 18 cm
Summary
"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
MIT Press essential knowledge series
Uniform Title
MIT Press essential knowledge series.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
JFC 16-31
ISBN
  • 9780262529129 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0262529122 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2015039937
OCLC
926821310
Author
Neff, Gina, 1971- author.
Title
Self-tracking / Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus.
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
MIT Press essential knowledge series
MIT Press essential knowledge series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Nafus, Dawn, author.
Research Call Number
JFC 16-31
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