Alevizou, P. orcid.org/0000-0003-2340-6444, Michaelidou, N., Daskalopoulou, A. et al. (1 more author) (2023) Self-tracking among young people: lived experiences, tensions and bodily outcomes. Sociology. ISSN 0038-0385
Abstract
Self-tracking enables people to quantify and measure lifestyle and fitness activities and experiences. Our study focuses on the role of self-tracking in young people’s relationship with their body and their lived, ‘fleshy’ experiences in the social world. We draw on twenty-three in-depth interviews with young people using a life story approach. Our findings show that self-tracking affords young people to engage in different types of ‘body work’, to care for and transform their body that is in constant flux by treating it as either a ‘private’ or ‘shared’ project. We contribute to ongoing debates about the role of self-tracking in young people’s lives by offering a holistic approach that considers the individual and social circumstances that render self-tracking an ongoing, iterative, cumulative, and embodied process of discovery, learning, and lived and ‘fleshy’ experience.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is properly attributed. | ||||
Keywords: | affordances; bodily outcomes; body work; digital technology; embodiment; lifestory approach; self-tracking; wearables; young people | ||||
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield | ||||
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) | ||||
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield | ||||
Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2023 11:45 | ||||
Last Modified: | 04 Jan 2024 09:09 | ||||
Status: | Published online | ||||
Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231218695 |