Metric Culture
Subtitle: Ontologies of Self-Tracking Practices
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781787432901
Subjects: Technology, social aspects; Meteorology
Description: 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.