Our Fitbits, our (ageing) selves: wearables, self-tracking and ageing embodiment
Our Fitbits, our (ageing) selves: wearables, self-tracking and ageing embodiment
This chapter considers the ways that embodied aging may be produced through wearable self-tracking technologies. With physical activity now promoted as key to the prevention of many age-related problems, and as inactivity becomes framed as irresponsible, the market for devices to both measure and motivate activity has expanded. While research in the biomedical and exercise sciences focuses on how self-tracking devices can enhance interventions aimed at behavior modification with older adults, this chapter draw on interviews with older users to argue that we need to attend more carefully to how the data produced by self-tracking circulates through the networks of technologies, relationships and regimes of expertise that are embedded in everyday social worlds.
Keywords: self-tracking, embodiment, fitness, ageing, quantification
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