Btihaj Ajana

Gebundenes Buch

Metric Culture

Beschreibung

Data and metrics play an unmistakably powerful role in today's society. Over the years, their use has expanded to cover almost every sphere of everyday life. This book provides a critical investigation into what we can call a "metric culture" in which practices of self-tracking and quantification have become more popular than ever before.

Autor

Btihaj Ajana is Senior Lecturer at the department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, UK. She was recently a Marie Curie Fellow and Associate Professor at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark where she conducted a project on self-tracking practices (@MetricLife). Her academic work is international and interdisciplinary in nature, spanning areas of digital culture, media praxis, and biopolitics. She is the author of Governing through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity (2013) and the editor of Self-Tracking: Empirical and Philosophical Investigations (2017).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 571g
• ISBN-13: 9781787432901
• ISBN-10: 1787432904
• Artikelnr.: 52420753