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Training to self-care: fitness tracking, biopedagogy and the healthy consumer.

In 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 lear...

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Published in:Health Sociology Review Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 54 - 69
Main Authors: Fotopoulou, Aristea, O'Riordan, Kate
Format: pictorial research Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2017
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          Fotopoulou, Aristea
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          Self Care
          Monitoring, Physiologic Equipment and Supplies
          Health Promotion
          Wearable Sensors
          Human
          Social Networking
          Field Notes
          Attachment Behavior
          Walking
          Health Behavior
          Exploratory Research
          Motivation
          Metaphor
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      ab: In 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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