'Deborah Lupton lucidly explains how data, human bodies and "selves" are inextricably entwined in our contemporary digital world. This is a perfect sequel to her excellent The Quantified Self.'
José van Dijck, author of The Culture of Connectivity and The Platform Society
'An exciting study of human-data interactions in a digital era. From digitized pregnancy to worries about the surveillant use of personal data by third parties, there's much here to stimulate debate. A must-read marker for digital sociology in the twenty-first century.'
David Lyon, Queen's University, Canada
1 Introduction 2 More-than-Human Perspectives
3 Materialising Data
4 Doing Data
5 Sharing and Exploiting Data
Final Thoughts
Appendix
References
Index
Deborah Lupton is SHARP Professor and Leader of the Vitalities Lab at the University of New South Wales.