Self-tracking of/and time
From technological to biographical and political temporalities of work and sitting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12655175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paula Saukko (0000-0001-7614-0091, Loughborough University, corresponding author), Amie Weedon (0000-0003-0489-7241, MASS Plc, UK) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1813-1829 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461444820983324 |
| OpenAlex | W3115184046 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 44 |
Self-tracking devices have been observed to accelerate time, be used sporadically and busyness being a barrier to use at work. Drawing on notion of multiple temporalities, this article expands the focus on temporalities of users’ engagement with technologies to analysing them within broader biographical, institutional and political times. The argument is grounded in interviews with UK public sector office workers self-tracking sitting time that featured the following three themes: (1) the participants related their sitting to deteriorated work conditions after government austerity politics and redundancies, (2) the pressurised rhythm of work made it difficult to reduce sitting time and fostered a sense of discontent and powerlessness and (3) the workers did not self-track in their free time, defined as free from monitoring. We suggest that the analytical lens of multiple temporalities expands understanding of user experiences as well as illuminates lived contemporary political and institutional times, characterised by both discontent and powerlessness
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Austerity · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Tracking (education · Work (physics · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Law · Mind wandering and attention · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |