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Move, eat, sleep, repeat: Living by rhythm with proactive self-tracking technologies
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6643-6056
Number of Authors: 22021 (English)In: Nordicom Review, ISSN 1403-1108, E-ISSN 2001-5119, Vol. 42, p. 137-151Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Proactive self-tracking is a proliferating digital media practice that involves gathering data about the body and the self outside a clinical healthcare setting. Various studies have noted that self-tracking technologies affect people's everyday modes of thought and action and stick to their lifeworlds because these technologies seek to promote improved modes of behaviour. We investigate how the specific devices and interfaces involved in self-tracking attract and prescribe rhythmicity into everyday lives and elaborate on how human bodies and technical systems of self-tracking interact rhythmically. We draw from new materialist ontology, combining it with Henri Lefebvre's method of rhythmanalysis and his notion of dressage. We employ a collaborative autoethnographical approach and engage with both of our personal fieldwork experiences in living with self-tracking devices. We argue that rhythmicity and dressage are fruitful analytical tools to use in understanding human-technology attachments as well as a variety of everyday struggles inherent in self-tracking practices.

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2021. Vol. 42, p. 137-151
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self-tracking, digital media, rhythmanalysis, collaborative autoethnography, dressage
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-198870DOI: 10.2478/nor-2021-0046ISI: 000709718700010OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-198870DiVA, id: diva2:1611948
Available from: 2021-11-16 Created: 2021-11-16 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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