Periods, technology and identity
The experience of period-tracking app users
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6431336 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B M Oʼbrien (0009-0008-3546-1559, Trinity College Dublin), Edurne Garcia Iriarte (0000-0002-8155-1263, Trinity College Dublin) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 231-253 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Irish Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0791-6035 • E-ISSN: 2050-5280 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/07916035251338808 |
| OpenAlex | W4410176816 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
Period-tracking applications (apps) allow users the ability to track their menstrual cycles and use algorithms which predict users future cycles. This study seeks to understand Irish users' experiences of, and reasons for, using period-tracking apps. In this qualitative study, a sample of 10 Irish women between 21 to 45 years of age were interviewed semi-structured and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. This study identified their reasons for using these telehealth apps, discovered an over-reliance on apps by users, a desire for change and improvement of the apps, and identified a tendency of users to perceive their own bodies as faulty rather than question the accuracy of the applications. The study also discusses the implications of these findings and recommendations for the improvement of these apps for users
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Business · Identity (music · Internet privacy · Media studies · Period (music · Sociology · Tracking (education · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Bleeding data
Hormonal Health
Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis
A good little tool to get to know yourself a bit better”
Foucault and Panopticism Revisited
Periods as powerful data
Positionality
Motherhood and Infertility
Subjectivation and performative politics—Butler thinking Althusser and Foucault
Our Bodies Ourselves and the Women’s Health Movement in the United States
Periods for Profit and the Rise of Menstrual Surveillance
Zuckerberg, get out of my uterus! An examination of fertility apps, data-sharing and remaking the female body as a digitalized reproductive subject
Cultures of the Internet
| 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 |