Episodic use: Practices of care in self-tracking
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Episodic use: Practices of care in self-tracking. / Gorm, Nanna; Shklovski, Irina.
In: New Media & Society, Vol. 21, No. 11-12, 2019, p. 2505-2521.Research output: Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Episodic use: Practices of care in self-tracking
AU - Gorm, Nanna
AU - Shklovski, Irina
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The development of self-tracking technologies has resulted in a burst of research considering how self-tracking practices manifest themselves in everyday life. Based on a 5-month-long photo elicitation study of Danish self-trackers, we argue that no matter how committed people might be to tracking their activities, their use of self-tracking technologies can be best described as episodic rather than continuous. Using Annemarie Mol’s theoretical framework for understanding care practices as a lens, we show how episodic use can be interpreted through the logic of care. By using self-tracking devices episodically, users employ strategies of care in a way that can be productive and useful. These strategies often come in conflict with the logics of choice that underlie the design of many self-tracking technologies. We argue that this has consequences for the way self-tracking devices need to be imagined, designed, and introduced as part of workplace and insurance-type tracking programs.
AB - The development of self-tracking technologies has resulted in a burst of research considering how self-tracking practices manifest themselves in everyday life. Based on a 5-month-long photo elicitation study of Danish self-trackers, we argue that no matter how committed people might be to tracking their activities, their use of self-tracking technologies can be best described as episodic rather than continuous. Using Annemarie Mol’s theoretical framework for understanding care practices as a lens, we show how episodic use can be interpreted through the logic of care. By using self-tracking devices episodically, users employ strategies of care in a way that can be productive and useful. These strategies often come in conflict with the logics of choice that underlie the design of many self-tracking technologies. We argue that this has consequences for the way self-tracking devices need to be imagined, designed, and introduced as part of workplace and insurance-type tracking programs.
KW - self-tracking
KW - care
KW - photo-elicitation
KW - episodic use
UR - http://www.ngorm.dk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Episodic-Use_New-Media-and-Society.pdf
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819851239
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819851239
M3 - Journal article
VL - 21
SP - 2505
EP - 2521
JO - New Media & Society
JF - New Media & Society
SN - 1461-4448
IS - 11-12
ER -
ID: 84650323