by Research Team | Oct 23, 2021 | Research Publications
Author(s): Bastien Soulé Gonzalo Marchant Raphaël Verchère Abstract: Sport and fitness mobile applications (SFMAs) have led to significant changes in how people engage in sport and physical activity. This development is part of a broader trend of self-tracking (the...
by Research Team | Oct 17, 2021 | Research Publications
Author(s): Amanda K. Greene Lisa M. Brownstone Abstract: In order to better understand the functional significance of pro-eating disorder (pro-ED) online spaces for users, the current study investigates identity performance as it plays out on pro-ED Tumblr and...
by Research Team | Oct 12, 2021 | Research Publications
Author(s): Uwe Vormbusch Abstract: Self-trackers are confronted with economic and cultural uncertainty as two fundamental traits of late-modern capitalism. Coping with uncertainty in this context means the calculative quest for discovering the representational forms...
by Research Team | Sep 8, 2021 | Research Publications
Author(s): Minna VigrenHarley Bergroth Abstract: Proactive self-tracking is a proliferating digital media practice that involves gathering data about the body and the self outside a clinical healthcare setting. Various studies have noted that self-tracking...
by Research Team | Sep 1, 2021 | Research Publications
Author(s): Leonieke Vermeer Abstract: 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...
