Doing Calories: The Practices of Dieting Using Calorie Counting App MyFitnessPal

Didziokaite, Gabija; Saukko, Paula; Greiffenhagen, Christian

doi:10.1108/978-1-78743-289-520181008

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“…Accounts of discerning work and partial data return a degree of agency to users of self-tracking technologies in the creation and circulation of data, while being attentive to the constraints imposed by the diverse materialities involved. Like others (Didžiokaitė et al 2018;Lomborg et al 2018; Esmonde 2020; Gorm and Shklovski 2019), we have shown that, even where people do record their data in ways that might be compiled by third parties (i.e. through apps), they do not necessarily give up all their data, and may be selective in what they record.…”

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“…(Ayo, 33, university researcher, black African) Ayo's account again underscores the affective resonance of self-monitoring records, which have the capacity to make her "sad" if they go in the wrong direction. This chimes with studies of calorie and fitness tracking (Didžiokaitė et al 2018;Esmonde 2020;Gorm and Shklovski, 2019).…”

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“…Kent (2018, 67), in a study of how self-trackers represent "health" through social media, discusses the way her participants construct an appropriate self-tracking persona "through careful inclusion and exclusion of certain health information." Studies of calorie and of fitness tracking have documented the way participants may manipulate data input, for example not recording everything consumed on days of excess (Didžiokaitė et al 2018;Lomborg et al 2018), or not saving "unflattering" runs (Esmonde 2020, 84). They might also engage in "episodic use" (Gorm and Shklovski 2019) of tracking technologies, recording calories or wearing fitness trackers only on days when they anticipate good, interesting or useful numbers (Didžiokaitė et al 2018;Esmonde 2020;Gorm and Shklovski 2019).…”

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“…Studies of calorie and of fitness tracking have documented the way participants may manipulate data input, for example not recording everything consumed on days of excess (Didžiokaitė et al 2018;Lomborg et al 2018), or not saving "unflattering" runs (Esmonde 2020, 84). They might also engage in "episodic use" (Gorm and Shklovski 2019) of tracking technologies, recording calories or wearing fitness trackers only on days when they anticipate good, interesting or useful numbers (Didžiokaitė et al 2018;Esmonde 2020;Gorm and Shklovski 2019). In this way participants are selective in the records they create either imagining an external audience, or supporting their motivation and protecting themselves from disappointing outcomes.…”

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is a lecturer in the media studies department at the University of Siegen. Together with Karin Knorr Cetina, he heads the project "Agentic Media: Formations of Semi-Autonomy" in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1187 "Media of Cooperation". He has a background in media studies, philosophy, and computer science and received his doctorate at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen with a thesis on the media theory of digital databases. His research interests include the history and theory of digital media, especially the logi(sti)cs of database technologies, big data, and algorithmic media as well as digital methods. Daniela van Geenen is a Ph.D. candidate at the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1187 "Media of Cooperation" at the University of Siegen, after receiving her MA from Utrecht University. Her research lies at the interface of media studies and science and technology studies (STS), with particular focus on (critical) data studies, software, device, and infrastructure studies. In her Ph.D. project she investigates the sociomaterial organization, (data) practices, and values in/of urban sensing, paying specific attention to cases of environmental sensing in relation to mobility monitoring and planning. She is also a lecturer in Data Journalism and Visualization at the

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“…Research shows that self-tracking technology can facilitate learning insights about one's body and mind (Choe et al 2014); function as triggers for action (Ajana 2017); give a "nudge;" (Lupton 2014) or play the role of an authority that shows the persuasive effect (Fogg 2002). Users also divert themselves from the projection of technology, finding meanings or engaging in negotiations (Ruckenstein and Schüll 2017;Lomborg et al 2018;Didžiokaitė et al 2018).…”

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Interpreting fitness: self-tracking with fitness apps through a postphenomenology lens

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2021

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Fitness apps on mobile devices are gaining popularity, as more people are engaging in self-tracking activities to record their status of fitness and exercise routines. These technologies also evolved from simply recording steps and offering exercise suggestions to an integrated lifestyle guide for physical wellbeing, thus exemplify a new era of "quantified self" in the context of health as individual responsibility. There is a considerable amount of literature in science, technology and society (STS) studies looking at this phenomenon from different perspectives, linking it with the sociology of self-surveillance and neoliberal regimes of health. However, the human-technology interface, through which the micro- (behavioral) and macro- (social) aspects converge, still calls for extensive examination. This paper approaches this topic from the postphenomenological perspective, in combination with empirical studies of design analysis and interviews of fitness apps, to reveal the human-technology link between the design elements and people's perception through the direct experiences and interpretations of technology. It argues that the intentionality of self-tracking fitness app designs mediates the human-technology relations by "guiding" people into a quantified knowledge regime. It shapes the perceptions of fitness and health with representations of meanings about a "good life" of individual success and management. This paper also gives a critique of current individual, performance-oriented fitness app designs and offers the possibility of seeking alternatives through the multistable nature of human-technology relations—how altering interpretation and meaning of the design with a cultural or social context could change the form of technological embodiment.

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Doing Calories: The Practices of Dieting Using Calorie Counting App MyFitnessPal

Abstract: He works in the areas of Science & Technology Studies (STS) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), where he uses ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to study scientific work and new technologies 'in use'.

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Interrogating Datafication

Interrogating Datafication

Interpreting fitness: self-tracking with fitness apps through a postphenomenology lens

Watching, keeping and squeezing time to lose weight: Implications of time-restricted eating in daily life

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