Exercise as labour: Quantified self and the transformation of exercise into labour

Societies

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 446-462

  Till, Chris ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital health; Digital technologies; Health and illness; Labour; Quantified self; Self tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940189900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/soc4030446     Document Type: Article

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