From Puritans to Fitbit:

Cardell, Kylie

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“…Memory has long been a site of research within HCI: for example, the personal data exploration experiments at Intel in 2004autoethnographic data mining ('ethno-mining') described by Anderson and colleagues (2009). Though the extractive tenets implicated when gamification principles are rolled outacross the millions of apps and devices now soldraise questions of data ownership and power relations, and of whether users might be pushed towards damaging forms of self-surveillance (Cardell 2020;Esmonde and Jette 2020). However, design intentions can be further contextualised and historicised.…”

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“…8). The notion of self-tracking as a diary-keeping practice so often arrives retrospectively to self-tracking practices and data, despite research pointing more and more earnestly to the primacy of memory and of diary-like engagements (Cardell 2020;Homewood 2023;Rettberg 2018;Vermeer 2022). Self-tracking would be better understood as a sociotechnical phenomenon, if mnemonic connections were seen as a prospective requirement: they are, in fact, implicitly encouraged as a means to anchor activities, keep records, participate in social elementsand if warrantedchange over time, to the bedrock of the user's experience.…”

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Narratives in numbers: Sociotechnical storytelling with self-tracking

Lyall

2024

Mem. Mind & Media

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This paper explores self-tracking as a social practice with significant relationships to human memory. The history of data and memory is fraught with a concern that specifics of qualia are subjugated to datafication. Yet, historical perspectives linking paper diaries and digital tracking show that rich accounts can be preserved in media. Cognisant of both perspectives, this paper argues that rather than delegating reflection to algorithms, users engage critically. Using original research data, this paper demonstrates how users unite the sociotechnical affordances of devices, data visualisations, and personal narratives to communicate memory in mediated forms. In doing so, they bridge semantic and autobiographic memory, combining subjectivity and objectivity. A datafied narration of everyday life emerges, affirming unique and vital stories. Often directed toward future goals, the mnemonic value of self-tracking in the present is overlooked. Yet whether recalling unfortunate accidents, sporting success, work, holidays, or illness experiences, participants use data as a scaffold to build stories and affirm identity. This paper asserts that memory and storytelling is an essential anchor for practices of digital self-tracking.

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Narratives in numbers: Sociotechnical storytelling with self-tracking

Lyall

2024

Mem. Mind & Media

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“…In other words, compliance benefits the individual and the collective. This then, is a small step to Foucault’s (1991, 1995 [1975]) notions of governmentality, discipline, and power-knowledge that ensure social control through subjects’ self-regulation, self-documentation, self-surveillance, and self-tracking (Cardell, 2020; Hunt and Wickham, 1994; Lupton, 2016). These terms champion those who act to improve or look after themselves, do the right thing, and ipso facto enhance the collective good, inevitably rendering those who do not as deviant.…”

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“…This form of government anticipates subjects willing to stem contagion, if necessary, by compromising aspects of their own self-interest for their own wellbeing and collective benefit, in part because they (come to) believe that doing so is the only right and moral stance for everyone. The new demands or requests, made in governing through contagion, are similar in form to other contemporary modes of governance; they are familiar and often unnoticeable (Cardell, 2020). The COVIDSafe App (application) and the use of QR (quick response) codes are examples of self-tracking and enable governments to trace the movements of people in order to track the spread of the virus.…”

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Complex data and simple instructions: Social regulation during the Covid-19 pandemic

Anleu

Sarantoulias

2022

Journal of Sociology

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Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic include the generation of new norms and shifting expectations about everyday, ordinary behaviour, management of the self, and social interaction. Central to the amalgam of new norms is the way information and instructions are communicated, often in the form of simple images and icons in posters and signs that are widespread in public settings. This article combines two sociological concerns – social control and visual research – to investigate the ways social interaction is being recalibrated during the pandemic. It focuses on some of the imagery relied on in public information about the coronavirus and investigates the form and content of various signs, instructions, and notices for their normative underpinnings, their advice and directives which attempt to modify and regulate diverse activities.

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From Diaries to Data Doubles. Self-Tracking in Dutch Diaries (1780–1940)

Vermeer

2021

Life Writing

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In recent years self-tracking technologies have become widely adopted. Life-writing scholars have contributed to the burgeoning academic interest in this phenomenon and pointed to similarities between the diary and present-day self-tracking apps, wearables and our digital 'data doubles' resulting from networked technology. However, studies on self-tracking in historical diaries are rare. In this article, I focus on experiences of self-tracking in five Dutch diaries from the long nineteenth century . Self-tracking includes all sorts of ways in which people have turned their bodies, minds, and habits into data. I have constrained my analysis of self-tracking in diaries to two bodily aspects: firstly, masturbation in connection with sleeping habits and, secondly, the menstrual cycle and birth control. The diaries show that the 'quantified self' in effect often becomes the 'qualified self', because tracking data involves interpretation, identity meanings and storytelling. The most important link between self-tracking in the stories told, both in historical paper diaries and in present-day forms, is the discourse of 'ableism'. Ability as a norm takes shape in the long nineteenth century with the diary as a key 'technology of the self' in which the responsible, self-governing individual monitors his or her own health and wellbeing.

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From Puritans to Fitbit:

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Narratives in numbers: Sociotechnical storytelling with self-tracking

Narratives in numbers: Sociotechnical storytelling with self-tracking

Complex data and simple instructions: Social regulation during the Covid-19 pandemic

From Diaries to Data Doubles. Self-Tracking in Dutch Diaries (1780–1940)

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