The Affective Circle of Harassment and Enchantment
Reflections on the ŌURA Ring as an Intimate Research Device
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2386409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tarja Salmela (0000-0002-0820-517X, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland), Anu Valtonen (0000-0001-8940-1254, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland), D Lupton (0000-0003-2658-4430, University of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 260-270 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800418801376 |
| OpenAlex | W2791256843 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 51 |
New digital devices monitoring the body are increasingly used as research devices. As highly intimate new media objects, placed next to our skin, they challenge our notions of privacy and contribute to the generation of affects-disrupting considerations of "successful" research. In this article, we offer an auto-ethnographic study of (not) using a wearable sleep-tracking device, the ŌURA smart ring, as a research device. We discuss the unexpected, intense affects we experienced when attempting to use the ring during a "failed" research process, feeling enchanted and harassed by it in turn. Reflecting on our affects enables us to identify different forms of intimacy: those related to disrupting the bodily norms of academia, and those disrupting the privacy of the sleeping body. To conclude, we discuss the potential of these disruptions to offer a better understanding of the significant role of the thing-power of research devices in qualitative research process
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Feeling · Harassment · Internet privacy · Power (physics · Process (computing · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Wearable computer · Computer Science · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Vulnerable relational knowing that matters
Health tracking media and the production of operational space
Living Ambivalently with Chronic Illness
One button in my pocket instead of the smartphone
The Datafication of Health
Writing Shame
Media, Place and Mobility
Ethics, embodiment and organizations
Thinking critically about affect in organization studies
Affective politics in gendered organizations
Inventive Methods
Data for life
Quantifying the body
Quantify the Invisible’
Cultures of sleep
Safe Places in Domestic Spaces
Metamorphosis
Introduction
Work-worlds colliding
The affective intensities of datafied space
Affect/Emotion
Affective Methodologies
Pedagogy as Possibility
The Force of Things
From embodiment to emplacement
Social Media Ethnography
Approaching Media through the Senses
Theorizing emotion and affect
Vulnerable/Dangerous Bodies? The Trials and Tribulations of Sleep
Trends in the Turn to Affect
Affect
Sporting Bodies
Health by numbers? Exploring the practice and experience of datafied health
Training to self-care
The Redistribution of Methods
Situated Knowledges
Sleeping Around, With, and Through Time
Assembling the Affective Field
The 'Social Life of Methods
The Social Etiquette of Sleep
The Datafication of Health
M-apping' sleep? Trends and transformations in the digital age
Managing sleep and wakefulness in a 24-hour world
Intimacy
The Social Life of Methods
The everyday intimacy of sleeping
The diverse domains of quantified selves
Enacting the social
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |