Sensing” productivity at home
Self-tracking technologies, gender, and labor in Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12449604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nazlı Özkan (0000-0001-7085-5934, Department of Media and Visual Arts, Koç University, Rumelifeneri Yolu , Sarıyer, İstanbul, Turkey, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Germaine Halegoua |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1083-6101 • E-ISSN: 1083-6101 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jcmc/zmad017 |
| OpenAlex | W4386100918 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article explores how women in Turkey use sensing technologies to render visible their productivity at home in ways that contest home–workplace boundary under neoliberal, digital capitalism. It does so by focusing on a group of lower- and middle-class women, who work from home as both paid laborers and unpaid caregivers. Although neoliberalism makes it harder to distinguish home and workplace, my digital ethnography highlights that women working from home feel a home–workplace separation that renders invisible their productivity. By translating embodied knowledge into quantified data, smartwatches provide women with new information that I call revelations. Women share these revelations on digital platforms to render visible their productivity at home in ways that transgress the home–workplace boundary. By exploring these revelations as moments of “otherwise,” this article highlights both when smartwatches reproduce neoliberal mentality and become tools for others in the public to register its exploitative consequences
Capitalism · CONTEST · Economic growth · Economics · Embodied cognition · Ethnography · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Productivity · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Work-Family Balance Challenges · Gender Studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |