Move, eat, sleep, repeat: Living by rhythm with proactive self-tracking technologies

IF 2 Q2 COMMUNICATION Nordicom Review Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.2478/nor-2021-0046
Minna Vigren,Harley Bergroth
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Abstract 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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运动,吃饭,睡觉,重复:通过主动的自我跟踪技术,有节奏地生活
主动自我跟踪是一种激增的数字媒体实践,涉及收集有关临床医疗保健设置之外的身体和自我的数据。各种研究都指出,自我跟踪技术会影响人们的日常思维和行动模式,并坚持他们的生活世界,因为这些技术寻求促进“改进”的行为模式。我们研究了涉及自我跟踪的特定设备和接口如何吸引和规定日常生活中的节奏,并详细说明了人体和自我跟踪的技术系统如何有节奏地相互作用。我们借鉴了新的唯物主义本体论,并将其与列斐伏尔的节奏分析方法和盛装舞步的概念相结合。我们采用了一种协作式的自我人种学方法,并将我们的个人实地工作经验与自我跟踪设备结合起来。我们认为节奏和盛装舞步是富有成效的分析工具,用于理解人类与技术的依恋,以及自我跟踪实践中固有的各种日常斗争。
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