‘Build a future champion’: Exploring a branded activity-tracking platform for children and parents

Lyall, Ben

doi:10.1177/1329878x211007167

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“…She then proceeds to recommend (without being sponsored) the Carbon Diet coach app, explaining that, ‘I just genuinely love it … they set your macros for you so you don’t have to do any of the work which was the scary part for me’ (Ross, 2021: 01:45). This allows her to overcome her professed lack of qualifications by effectively passing over health expertise to what is supposedly an objective, technoscientific source of health information, which further works to affirm their legitimacy as health intervention (Clark et al, 2022; Lyall, 2021). This form of (perceived) objective information is often used to lend legitimacy to the WIEIAD YouTuber's personal testimony.…”

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One day of eating: Tracing misinformation in ‘What I Eat In A Day’ videos

Topham

Smith

2023

Journal of Sociology

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This article traces how misinformation occurs and is negotiated in What I Eat In A Day (WIEIAD) videos. Data were collected from 84 WIEIAD videos across 59 YouTube accounts. Our discourse analysis demonstrated that misinformation is presented in ways that invoke expertise, scientific credibility and personal experience, making it more difficult to identify and respond to. Our analysis illustrates how misinformation arises in seemingly mundane sites of discourse and argues that identifying and responding to misinformation is not a binary task. The WIEIAD genre demonstrates the complexity of contemporary wellness discourses and their broader role in health and risk management, which results in the (re)circulation of misinformation. The tension between the sensory and the rational in WIEIAD videos highlights the complexities present in how misinformation, wellness and health are entangled on social media.

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confidence: 99%

One day of eating: Tracing misinformation in ‘What I Eat In A Day’ videos

Topham

Smith

2023

Journal of Sociology

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“…Children could also use the application at home together with adults. As is typical with child-oriented technologies, a strong emphasis of gamification was evident (Lyall, 2021). In the application, users collected points from their movement which would then give them credits for playing an in-app game.…”

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Activity-tracking assemblages in Finnish early childhood education and care

2023

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Children’s activity-trackers have recently gained popularity to ensure sufficient exercise for children attending Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care settings. Device manufacturers collaborate with public and private providers and supply children with bracelets that measure activity. We interviewed staff who used trackers during 2021, and approach these technologies as assemblages where devices are entangled with discourses, rules and practices. Three events show how assemblages produced children as active/inactive; gaming the algorithm, and educators seeking to use the devices pedagogically.

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“…The walkthrough method developed by Light et al (2018) has become one of the most popular methodological tools within media and communications research for analysing app use. To date there have been over 500 papers using this method, but only 6 of them meaningfully focus on apps relating to physical devices and only one of those specifically examines a wearable device (Lyall, 2021). The walkthrough method is powerful as is establishes an apps' 'environment of intended use' by reading a range of signals around apps.…”

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Toward a Revolution in Australian Children’s Data and Privacy

Leaver,

Mannell,

Bunn

et al. 2023

SPIR

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This panel combines four papers which focus in different ways on the question of children’s data and privacy in the Australian context. All four are framed with children’s right to privacy as a core concern, consistent with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as updated via the General Comment 25 on Child Rights in the Digital Environment. We examine four arenas where children’s data is either extracted or occluded in ways that make it more difficult, if not impossible, for parents, carers and others to make informed choices about the data of very young children. As children begin to articulate their own ideas and privacy preferences, these studies highlight different understandings of privacy, and of trust in both people and technologies. The panel papers are titled: ‘Where Does Children’s Data Go? Mapping the Data Broker Industry’; ‘Data and Privacy as a Social Relation’; ‘Developing a Holistic Framework for Analysing Privacy Policies – A Child’s Rights and Data Justice Perspective’ and ‘Unboxing Data and Privacy Via Young Children’s Wearables’. Collectively, these papers can be read as arguing that we need nothing less than a revolution in the way children and responsible adults are informed about the way children’s data is generated, captured, stored, and owned, as well as explicitly regulating who can profit from children’s data, in which circumstances, and how transparent these processes must be.

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‘Build a future champion’: Exploring a branded activity-tracking platform for children and parents

Cited by 3 publications

References 40 publications

One day of eating: Tracing misinformation in ‘What I Eat In A Day’ videos

One day of eating: Tracing misinformation in ‘What I Eat In A Day’ videos

Activity-tracking assemblages in Finnish early childhood education and care

Toward a Revolution in Australian Children’s Data and Privacy

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