Rational Discrimination and Lifelogging: The Expansion of the Combat Zone and the new Taxonomy of the Social

Selke, Stefan

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-13137-1_19

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“…The authors draw a line from the wish for more self-knowledge to techniques of mindfulness and resistant practices against concepts of a reductionist datafication. This approach relates to observations by Zillien and Fröhlich (2018) showing that ST serves to gain self-control in everyday life and is not so much about forms of self-economization (Selke, 2016). A closer look at the variety of perspectives on motivations reveals a high variance and ambivalence regarding critical self-optimization tendencies on one hand and playful, emancipatory or self-exploring intentions on the other hand.…”

Section: Motivations and Traits Regarding Self-trackingmentioning

confidence: 91%

Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany

Findeis¹,

Salfeld²,

Voigt³

et al. 2021

New Media & Society

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This study presents a quantitative account of who uses or stops using digital self-tracking (ST). A representative sample of German adults aged 20–50 years ( N = 1022) completed an online survey on their ST practices, personality traits and attitudes toward numbers, on sociodemographic characteristics, mental disorders (particularly bulimia, burnout syndrome, and depression) and somatic disorders. A descriptive statistical analysis was performed on differences between self-trackers and non-trackers. Among others, they differ regarding age, civil status, social class, presence of mental and/or somatic diagnoses, performance-pressure, and strive for competition. A consequent binary logistic regression analysis suggests perfectionism, a somatic diagnosis within the last 5 years, a diagnosis of bulimia in the past, as well as a present mental diagnosis to be significant predictors for ST, though the predictive value of the factors was relatively low.

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Section: Motivations and Traits Regarding Self-trackingmentioning

confidence: 91%

Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany

Findeis¹,

Salfeld²,

Voigt³

et al. 2021

New Media & Society

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“…21). While the terminology remains synonymous in some scholarship (Selke 2016), the 'total capture' and analytically intensive goals tied to the terms are generally unwieldy and impractical for everyday consumers. But memory remains essential in a latent sense, as the design intentions of self-tracking technology target human memory and draws on it as a logic with which to mediate embodied performance (Jethani 2021, pp.…”

Section: Background: Designers Datasets and Diariesmentioning

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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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“…The use of smartphone usage tracker apps results in the technology automatically (and partly autonomously) recording itself (how it is used). In this sense, the GSRR research design is potentially applicable not only to mobile phones but also to a variety of other mobile and smart technologies, such as smart home assistants, smart camera systems, wearable technologies, and lifelogging cameras (Pink et al, 2017; Selke, 2016), that is, to any sociomaterial assemblage that penetrates our everyday lives and records some data. In all these cases, the observer and the one who records may not be the informant or the researcher.…”

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Gradual stimulation of respondents' reflexivity: A research design for studying unreflexive consumers

Šimůnková

Šimůnek

2023

Int J Consumer Studies

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In interpretive research accounts, reflexivity has been understood primarily in terms of the researcher's reflexivity, while the respondent's reflexivity has been considered only marginally. We regard this gap as critical and therefore introduce a research design for the gradual stimulation of respondents' reflexivity (GSRR), which we propose as a methodological tool for strengthening research validity. First, to frame our argumentation in the contemporary socio-technological context, we emphasize the need to focus on the respondent's reflexivity in the onto-epistemological conditions of the hybrid space and posthuman consumer culture, which unprecedentedly eliminate actors' abilities to monitor their actions reflexively. Second, we present and methodologically examine the GSRR as a 3-phase sequential mixed-method research design for stimulating respondents' reflexivity. GSRR's logic is as follows: the questionnaire captures what respondents think they are doing; the digital self-tracking diary captures what they are doing and what they often do not acknowledge (unreflexivity); the interviews use the previous phases' data to elicit respondents' reflexivity. Third, we present examples from our research practice to demonstrate the strengthening of data validity elicited from respondents by stimulating their reflexivity. We conclude by outlining the GSRR's possible future applications and directions.

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Rational Discrimination and Lifelogging: The Expansion of the Combat Zone and the new Taxonomy of the Social

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany

Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany

Narratives in numbers: Sociotechnical storytelling with self-tracking

Gradual stimulation of respondents' reflexivity: A research design for studying unreflexive consumers

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