Katelyn Esmonde
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 257839 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Katelyn Esmonde |
| NOMBRES | Katelyn |
| APELLIDO | Esmonde |
| FIRMA | ESMONDE K |
| AFILIACIONES | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3437-2921 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Walking a tightrope
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and health agencies were responsible for communicating vital information to the public. To effectively communicate the severity of the situation and to encourage the public to follow recommendations, best practices for public communication during emergencies often emphasize two objectives: building trust and being transparent. Doing so can require communicators to “walk a tightrope,” where the success…
Digital benefit sharing” for non-communicable disease risk factor surveillance in low – and middle-income countries
Thinking “Bioethically
In the sociology of sport, there is a consensus that it is not just our job to analyze our sporting worlds but that we must also intervene in them. In this article, we make a case for how bioethics can serve as a tool in the toolkit that can strengthen one’s analysis and commentary at the intersection of the sociology of sport and biomedicine. First, we provide a brief overview of some of the many key literatures in the field that have engaged wi…
Lives versus livelihoods
Many policies were put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to manage the negative impact of the coronavirus. Limiting severe illness and death was one important objective of these policies, but it is widely acknowledged by public health ethicists that pandemic policies needed to consider other factors. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 38 people across 17 states who participated in the state-level COVID-19 pandemic…
Staying in the lane' of public health? Boundary-work in the roles of state health officials and experts in Covid-19 policymaking
The state-level COVID-19 response in the United States necessitated collaboration between governor' offices, health departments and numerous other departments and outside experts. To gain insight into how health officials and experts contributed to advising on COVID-19 policies, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 individuals with a health specialisation who were involved in COVID-19 policymaking, taking place between February and Dec…
A social and ethical framework for providing health information obtained from combining genetics and fitness tracking data
‘From fat and frazzled to fit and happy’
Fitbits are one of an increasing number of wearable devices that are being used in workplace wellness programmes to track steps taken, stairs climbed, distance walked, calories burned, hours slept, and more. In this paper I examine Fitbit Health Solutions (FHS), a subset of the larger Fitbit, Inc., that is devoted to uses of Fitbit devices in workplace wellness programs. Using digital methods to collect documents pertaining to workplace wellness …
We are Not a Nation of Softies, But We Could Become One’
In this article, we peer into the scientific networks of humans and non-humans that were assembled to articulate youth fitness in the United States during the Cold War era when the perceived ‘muscle gap’ between United States youth and their European and Soviet counterparts lent urgency to the establishment of national fitness testing standards and plans. We draw on Actor-Network Theory as a theory/method to foreground the materiality of the body…
‘There’s only so much data you can handle in your life’
The widespread use of Fitbits, Garmins and Apple Watches is emblematic of the ‘Quantified Self’ (QS) movement, where participants utilise digital self-tracking devices to generate a broad range of data on their health and fitness for the purposes of self-improvement. Gendered expectations for beauty and health have led to women becoming disproportionately represented amongst fitness tracker wearers, as weight loss and self-discipline for the purp…
Assembling the 'Fitbit subject
The rise of fitness-tracking devices such as the Fitbit in personal health and wellness is emblematic of the use of data-gathering health and fitness technologies by institutions to create a surveillance regime. Using postings on Fitbit community message boards and the theoretical frames of Michel Foucault and sociomaterialist scholars, the goal of this article is to analyse the experiences of those who choose to self-track using a Fitbit and the…
Public Sociology of Sport and Digital Media
In the past 15 years, sport scholars have expressed an increased interest in public sociology, while the rapid acceleration of digital media has led to significant shifts in the sport media landscape. In this paper, we analyze our experiences at the confluence of these two trends as scholarly bloggers about hockey. We present self-reflexive personal vignettes—centred around themes of engaging publics, marginality, and negative outcomes—and use in…
Training, tracking, and traversing
The impact of the Quantified Self (QS) movement, or the digital quantification of the body for the purposes of self-betterment, on leisure has been well-established within the literature. Drawing on the experiences of ten women who self-track while running, this project extends the literature on running and place, and lived experiences of the QS, by considering the role of fitness tracking on embodiment and emplacement. First, I trouble the notio…
Exploring Prenatal Physical Activity at the “Postgenomic Turn”
Within the life sciences, there has been a move away from genetic determinism toward an awareness of how the environment (from cellular to social) can impact gene expression and health outcomes. Significantly, exercise scientists are looking to this “postgenomic turn” to explore how prenatal physical activity and leisure might affect the fetal metabolic environment by altering offspring gene expression and preventing future obesity. In this artic…
Tracing the feedback loop
As digital tracking technologies such as heart rate monitors are being implemented into physical education classrooms with increased frequency, ‘techno-enthusiasts’ and ‘sceptics’ alike are attempting to understand the implications of these practices. Focusing on heart rate monitors in physical education, I utilize Foucauldian theories and actor-network-theory to extend the scholarship within the sociology of sport and physical education literatu…
That's Not the Only Reason I'm Watching the Game
Women make up increasingly large proportions of fan bases of the most popular spectator sports in the United States and are recognized as a viable marketing segment. Despite their growing cultural and economic presence, scholars have noted the stereotypical assumptions women sports fans routinely experience, particularly with regard to the widely held assumption that women's interest in men's sport is primarily motivated by heterosexual attractio…
Fatness, Fitness, and Feminism in the Built Environment
In a climate where the “obesity epidemic” is a consistent focus within discussions of public health, the theory that the environment is one of the main drivers of the “obesity epidemic” is coming to the fore. In this paper, we look to the example of the “obesogenic environment” and the literature tracing the relationship between bodies, the environment, and physical activity as a vehicle through which to explore the potential for sociomaterialist…
It’s Supposed to be About the Love of the Game, not the Love of Aaron Rodgers’ Eyes”
Feminist sports scholars characterize sport as a masculine domain wherein the ideology of male superiority and dominance is structurally and symbolically perpetuated. Researchers similarly identify sports fan communities as exclusionary to women and sites for the reaffirmation of gendered hierarchies. The purpose of this project is to examine the gendered meanings of sports fandom. Using semistructured interviews with eleven women who identify as…
It’s Supposed to be About the Love of the Game, not the Love of Aaron Rodgers’ Eyes”
Feminist sports scholars characterize sport as a masculine domain wherein the ideology of male superiority and dominance is structurally and symbolically perpetuated. Researchers similarly identify sports fan communities as exclusionary to women and sites for the reaffirmation of gendered hierarchies. The purpose of this project is to examine the gendered meanings of sports fandom. Using semistructured interviews with eleven women who identify as…
Training, tracking, and traversing
The impact of the Quantified Self (QS) movement, or the digital quantification of the body for the purposes of self-betterment, on leisure has been well-established within the literature. Drawing on the experiences of ten women who self-track while running, this project extends the literature on running and place, and lived experiences of the QS, by considering the role of fitness tracking on embodiment and emplacement. First, I trouble the notio…
Assembling the 'Fitbit subject
The rise of fitness-tracking devices such as the Fitbit in personal health and wellness is emblematic of the use of data-gathering health and fitness technologies by institutions to create a surveillance regime. Using postings on Fitbit community message boards and the theoretical frames of Michel Foucault and sociomaterialist scholars, the goal of this article is to analyse the experiences of those who choose to self-track using a Fitbit and the…
Fatness, Fitness, and Feminism in the Built Environment
In a climate where the “obesity epidemic” is a consistent focus within discussions of public health, the theory that the environment is one of the main drivers of the “obesity epidemic” is coming to the fore. In this paper, we look to the example of the “obesogenic environment” and the literature tracing the relationship between bodies, the environment, and physical activity as a vehicle through which to explore the potential for sociomaterialist…
Public Sociology of Sport and Digital Media
In the past 15 years, sport scholars have expressed an increased interest in public sociology, while the rapid acceleration of digital media has led to significant shifts in the sport media landscape. In this paper, we analyze our experiences at the confluence of these two trends as scholarly bloggers about hockey. We present self-reflexive personal vignettes—centred around themes of engaging publics, marginality, and negative outcomes—and use in…
Tracing the feedback loop
As digital tracking technologies such as heart rate monitors are being implemented into physical education classrooms with increased frequency, ‘techno-enthusiasts’ and ‘sceptics’ alike are attempting to understand the implications of these practices. Focusing on heart rate monitors in physical education, I utilize Foucauldian theories and actor-network-theory to extend the scholarship within the sociology of sport and physical education literatu…
That's Not the Only Reason I'm Watching the Game
Women make up increasingly large proportions of fan bases of the most popular spectator sports in the United States and are recognized as a viable marketing segment. Despite their growing cultural and economic presence, scholars have noted the stereotypical assumptions women sports fans routinely experience, particularly with regard to the widely held assumption that women's interest in men's sport is primarily motivated by heterosexual attractio…
Digital benefit sharing” for non-communicable disease risk factor surveillance in low – and middle-income countries
Lives versus livelihoods
Many policies were put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to manage the negative impact of the coronavirus. Limiting severe illness and death was one important objective of these policies, but it is widely acknowledged by public health ethicists that pandemic policies needed to consider other factors. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 38 people across 17 states who participated in the state-level COVID-19 pandemic…
Staying in the lane' of public health? Boundary-work in the roles of state health officials and experts in Covid-19 policymaking
The state-level COVID-19 response in the United States necessitated collaboration between governor' offices, health departments and numerous other departments and outside experts. To gain insight into how health officials and experts contributed to advising on COVID-19 policies, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 individuals with a health specialisation who were involved in COVID-19 policymaking, taking place between February and Dec…
A social and ethical framework for providing health information obtained from combining genetics and fitness tracking data
It’s Supposed to be About the Love of the Game, not the Love of Aaron Rodgers’ Eyes”
Feminist sports scholars characterize sport as a masculine domain wherein the ideology of male superiority and dominance is structurally and symbolically perpetuated. Researchers similarly identify sports fan communities as exclusionary to women and sites for the reaffirmation of gendered hierarchies. The purpose of this project is to examine the gendered meanings of sports fandom. Using semistructured interviews with eleven women who identify as…
Fatness, Fitness, and Feminism in the Built Environment
In a climate where the “obesity epidemic” is a consistent focus within discussions of public health, the theory that the environment is one of the main drivers of the “obesity epidemic” is coming to the fore. In this paper, we look to the example of the “obesogenic environment” and the literature tracing the relationship between bodies, the environment, and physical activity as a vehicle through which to explore the potential for sociomaterialist…
Tracing the feedback loop
As digital tracking technologies such as heart rate monitors are being implemented into physical education classrooms with increased frequency, ‘techno-enthusiasts’ and ‘sceptics’ alike are attempting to understand the implications of these practices. Focusing on heart rate monitors in physical education, I utilize Foucauldian theories and actor-network-theory to extend the scholarship within the sociology of sport and physical education literatu…
That's Not the Only Reason I'm Watching the Game
Women make up increasingly large proportions of fan bases of the most popular spectator sports in the United States and are recognized as a viable marketing segment. Despite their growing cultural and economic presence, scholars have noted the stereotypical assumptions women sports fans routinely experience, particularly with regard to the widely held assumption that women's interest in men's sport is primarily motivated by heterosexual attractio…
Public Sociology of Sport and Digital Media
In the past 15 years, sport scholars have expressed an increased interest in public sociology, while the rapid acceleration of digital media has led to significant shifts in the sport media landscape. In this paper, we analyze our experiences at the confluence of these two trends as scholarly bloggers about hockey. We present self-reflexive personal vignettes—centred around themes of engaging publics, marginality, and negative outcomes—and use in…
Training, tracking, and traversing
The impact of the Quantified Self (QS) movement, or the digital quantification of the body for the purposes of self-betterment, on leisure has been well-established within the literature. Drawing on the experiences of ten women who self-track while running, this project extends the literature on running and place, and lived experiences of the QS, by considering the role of fitness tracking on embodiment and emplacement. First, I trouble the notio…
Exploring Prenatal Physical Activity at the “Postgenomic Turn”
Within the life sciences, there has been a move away from genetic determinism toward an awareness of how the environment (from cellular to social) can impact gene expression and health outcomes. Significantly, exercise scientists are looking to this “postgenomic turn” to explore how prenatal physical activity and leisure might affect the fetal metabolic environment by altering offspring gene expression and preventing future obesity. In this artic…
‘There’s only so much data you can handle in your life’
The widespread use of Fitbits, Garmins and Apple Watches is emblematic of the ‘Quantified Self’ (QS) movement, where participants utilise digital self-tracking devices to generate a broad range of data on their health and fitness for the purposes of self-improvement. Gendered expectations for beauty and health have led to women becoming disproportionately represented amongst fitness tracker wearers, as weight loss and self-discipline for the purp…
Assembling the 'Fitbit subject
The rise of fitness-tracking devices such as the Fitbit in personal health and wellness is emblematic of the use of data-gathering health and fitness technologies by institutions to create a surveillance regime. Using postings on Fitbit community message boards and the theoretical frames of Michel Foucault and sociomaterialist scholars, the goal of this article is to analyse the experiences of those who choose to self-track using a Fitbit and the…
‘From fat and frazzled to fit and happy’
Fitbits are one of an increasing number of wearable devices that are being used in workplace wellness programmes to track steps taken, stairs climbed, distance walked, calories burned, hours slept, and more. In this paper I examine Fitbit Health Solutions (FHS), a subset of the larger Fitbit, Inc., that is devoted to uses of Fitbit devices in workplace wellness programs. Using digital methods to collect documents pertaining to workplace wellness …
We are Not a Nation of Softies, But We Could Become One’
In this article, we peer into the scientific networks of humans and non-humans that were assembled to articulate youth fitness in the United States during the Cold War era when the perceived ‘muscle gap’ between United States youth and their European and Soviet counterparts lent urgency to the establishment of national fitness testing standards and plans. We draw on Actor-Network Theory as a theory/method to foreground the materiality of the body…
A social and ethical framework for providing health information obtained from combining genetics and fitness tracking data
Lives versus livelihoods
Many policies were put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to manage the negative impact of the coronavirus. Limiting severe illness and death was one important objective of these policies, but it is widely acknowledged by public health ethicists that pandemic policies needed to consider other factors. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 38 people across 17 states who participated in the state-level COVID-19 pandemic…
Staying in the lane' of public health? Boundary-work in the roles of state health officials and experts in Covid-19 policymaking
The state-level COVID-19 response in the United States necessitated collaboration between governor' offices, health departments and numerous other departments and outside experts. To gain insight into how health officials and experts contributed to advising on COVID-19 policies, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 individuals with a health specialisation who were involved in COVID-19 policymaking, taking place between February and Dec…
Thinking “Bioethically
In the sociology of sport, there is a consensus that it is not just our job to analyze our sporting worlds but that we must also intervene in them. In this article, we make a case for how bioethics can serve as a tool in the toolkit that can strengthen one’s analysis and commentary at the intersection of the sociology of sport and biomedicine. First, we provide a brief overview of some of the many key literatures in the field that have engaged wi…
Walking a tightrope
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and health agencies were responsible for communicating vital information to the public. To effectively communicate the severity of the situation and to encourage the public to follow recommendations, best practices for public communication during emergencies often emphasize two objectives: building trust and being transparent. Doing so can require communicators to “walk a tightrope,” where the success…
Digital benefit sharing” for non-communicable disease risk factor surveillance in low – and middle-income countries
Sociology (12 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Public relations (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras)