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Training to self-care: fitness tracking, biopedagogy and the healthy consumer
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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:34 authored by Aristea Fotopoulou, Kate O'RiordanKate O'RiordanIn this article, we provide an account of Fitbit, a wearable sensor device, using two complementary analytical approaches: auto-ethnography and media analysis. Drawing on the concept of biopedagogy, which describes the processes of learning and training bodies how to live, we focus on how users learn to self-care with wearable technologies through a series of micropractices that involve processes of mediation and the sharing of their own data via social networking. Our discussion is oriented towards four areas of analysis: data subjectivity and sociality; making meaning; time and productivity and brand identity. We articulate how these micropractices of knowing one’s body regulate the contemporary ‘fit’ and healthy subject, and mediate expertise about health, behaviour and data subjectivity.
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Health Sociology ReviewISSN
1446-1242Publisher
Taylor and FrancisExternal DOI
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1Volume
26Page range
54-68Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
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2016-03-15First Open Access (FOA) Date
2018-05-01First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2016-03-15Usage metrics
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