New book Data Selves now out

My new book Data Selves: More-than-Human Perspectives has now been released by Polity Press. In the book, I draw on feminist new materialism theory and the anthropology of material culture as well as analyses of popular culture and findings from my empirical studies talking to people about their personal data. I argue that personal data are more-than-human phenomena, invested with diverse forms of vitalities, and reveal the significant implications for data futures, politics and ethics. The book is a companion to my previous Polity book The Quantified Self: A Sociology of Self-Tracking.

• You can get a taste of the book on Amazon via its ‘Look Inside’ feature here.
• An excerpt from the Introduction chapter can be found here.
• An excerpt from the chapter on data materialisations can be found here.
• An interview with me about the book can be found here.