Deliberate news consumption through the quantified self and the self-regulatory process

2021 ◽  
pp. 103585
Author(s):  
Seongwon Lee ◽  
Kil-Soo Suh
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
Quantified Self ◽  
News Consumption

scholarly journals Co-evolving with self-tracking technologies

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 3624-3640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorthe Brogård Kristensen ◽  
Minna Ruckenstein
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Quantified Self ◽  
Use Of Self ◽  
Technology Market

Seen in a longitudinal perspective, Quantified Self-inspired self-tracking sets up “a laboratory of the self,” where people co-evolve with technologies. By exploring ways in which self-tracking technologies energize everyday aims or are experienced as limiting, we demonstrate how some aspects of the self are amplified while others become reduced and restricted. We suggest that further developing the concept of the laboratory of the self renews the conversation about the role of metrics and technologies by facilitating comparison between different realms of the digital, and demonstrating how services and devices enlarge aspects of the self at the expense of others. The use of self-tracking technologies is inscribed in, but also runs counter to, the larger political-economy landscape. Personal laboratories can aid the exploration of how the techno-mediated selves fit into larger structures of the digital technology market and the role that metrics play in defining them.

scholarly journals The mundane experience of everyday calorie trackers: Beyond the metaphor of Quantified Self

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 1470-1487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabija Didžiokaitė ◽  
Paula Saukko ◽  
Christian Greiffenhagen
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Quantified Self ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Calorie Counting

In this article, we build on the work of Ruckenstein and Pantzar, who have demonstrated how our understanding of self-tracking has been influenced by the metaphor of the Quantified Self (QS). To complicate this very selective picture of self-tracking, we shift the focus in understanding self-tracking from members of the QS community to the experiences of ‘ordinary man and woman’. Therefore, we interviewed ‘everyday calorie trackers’, people who had themselves started using MyFitnessPal calorie counting app but were not part of any tracking community. Our analysis identifies three main themes – goals, use and effect – which highlight the mundane side of self-tracking, where people pursuing everyday, limited goals engage in basic self-tracking and achieve temporary changes. These experiences contrast with the account of self-tracking in terms of long-term, experimental analysis of data on the self or ‘biohacking’, which dominates the QS metaphor in the academic literature.

scholarly journals Meeting the Sober Self, Recognizing the Drinking Self

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Robert
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
The Self ◽  
Quantified Self ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Abstract Knowledge ◽  
Public Health Campaigns ◽  
Depth Interviews

Temporary sobriety initiatives (TSIs), popular month-long campaigns in which people abstain from alcohol to raise money for charity, aim to change participants’ relationship with alcohol. Identifying the structural and practical mechanisms of TSIs that facilitate the desired changes is an important element in understanding their popularity and purported effectiveness as public health campaigns. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 15 Australian FebFast participants, this article argues that TSI participants, often guided by campaign organizers, loosely adopt the self-tracking and self-experimentation practices of the Quantified Self (QS) movement, which open up aspects of oneself and of alcohol that are normally hidden in order to facilitate self-improvement via discovery. Drew Leder’s corporeal phenomenology of absence and presence underpins the analysis of how TSI participants contrast deliberate periods of sobriety and inattentive normal drinking to convert abstract knowledge about alcohol and its effects into personally salient information based on lived experience. In doing so, participants shift the valence of their ambivalence about drinking even at moderate levels and convert it from the less behaviorally impactful potential ambivalence to its more influential felt form. Through such experiments, TSI participants problematize their drinking; make real the physical, psychological, and social impacts of alcohol; and even redefine what they know it to be.

scholarly journals Mental Mechanisms of Psychological States Regulation

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-204
Author(s):  
A.O. Prokhorov
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Mental States ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Regulatory Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Analytical Review

The article presents the analytical review of theories and studies of the psychological state regulation through the “self-processes — self-regulation” aspect. The main objective of the article is the analysis of concepts, mechanisms and the role of consciousness structures in the regulatory process. The theories of mental states self-regulation are analyzed: system-activity, system-functional and structures-functional. The specificity of each approach to the regulatory process is shown. It was found that the less developed area in presented theoretical constructions is the mental component of regulation: the contribution of the consciousness structures to the regulation of states, their significance and functions in the regulatory process, the specificity of the influence of individual structures on regulation and their synergy during self-regulation, etc. Review of the concepts of the mental states regulation’s mechanisms points the key role of the consciousness structures in the regulatory process. The consciousness structures are an integral part of the individual’s mental subjective experience. Subjective mental experience integrates meanings with categorical structures of consciousness, goal features, semantic structures of consciousness (personal meaning, values, semantic attitudes, etc.), reflection and its types, experiences, mental representations (imaginative characteristics), the self-system. The relationship between the consciousness structures in the process of mental states regulation is considered. It is shown that the integration of the consciousness components is aimed at the goal achieving — the regulation of the subject’s mental stateThe operational side of the regulatory process is associated with the actions of the subject, aimed at changing the state, feedback and time characteristics.

scholarly journals Why data is not enough: Digital traces as control of self and self-control

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Butler Reigeluth
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Francophone Literature ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Quantified Self ◽  
To Come ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
And Control ◽  
Gilbert Simondon

As an alternative to the seemingly natural objectivity and self-evidence of “data,” this paper builds on recent francophone literature by developing a critical conceptualization of “digital traces.” Underlining the materiality and discursiveness of traces allows us to understand and articulate both the technical and sociopolitical implications of digital technology. The philosophies of Gilbert Simondon and Michel Foucault give strong ontological and epistemological groundings for interpreting the relationships between technology and processes of subjectification. In this light, digital traces are framed as objects and products of heteronomous interventions, the logics of which can be traced through the programs and algorithms deployed. Through the empirical examples of “Predictive Policing” and “Quantified Self” digital traces are contrasted with the premises and dreams of Big Data. While the later claims to algorithmically correlative, predict and preempt the future by reducing it to a “what-is-to-come,” the digital trace paradigm offers a new perspective on how forms of self-control and control of the self are interdependent facets of “algorithmic governmentality.”

scholarly journals Construction Health and Safety Self-Regulation in Developing Countries: A Nigeria Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nnedinma Umeokafor ◽  
David Isaac
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Regulatory Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
Favorable Attitude ◽  
Individual Interviews

The study reported in this paper explored the self-regulatory approaches in terms of health and safety (H&S) in the Nigerian construction industry and the attitudes of the industry towards H&S self-regulation. This stems from the premise that the Nigerian construction industry has been viewed as unregulated, but evidence in literature indicates that some parts of the industry are self-regulated in various forms. However, it is unclear how self-regulation occurs in the industry, its approaches and the attitudes of the industry towards it. Based on group and individual interviews, there is evidence of self-regulation that is: enforced, industry-led, voluntary, H&S crusader-led, client-led and community-led. It was revealed that in many cases, when self-regulation is voluntary, the self-regulatory process does not exceed the first stage of self-regulation, adopting or developing standards. The attitudes of the industry towards H&S self-regulation can be described as not limited to “camouflage,” “convenience,” “context-defined,” “secondary,” “unstructured,” and “tick box.” However, there are some in the industry that have a favorable attitude towards H&S where it is “primary” in their organization. The understanding of self-regulation and H&S is advanced in this study, especially in developing countries, which policymakers, socio-legal scholars, practitioners, academics, and various industries may find beneficial.

scholarly journals Self-Absorption Analysis of Perovskite-Based Luminescent Solar Concentrators

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-552
Author(s):  
Yujian Sun ◽  
Yongcao Zhang ◽  
Yuxin Li ◽  
Yilin Li
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Quantified Self ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Absorption Properties ◽  
Loss Mechanism ◽  
Solar Concentrators ◽  
Building Integrated Photovoltaics ◽  
Luminescent Solar Concentrators ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Low Performance

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are considered promising in their application as building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs). However, they suffer from low performance, especially in large-area devices. One of the key issues is the self-absorption of the luminophores. In this report, we focus on the study of self-absorption in perovskite-based LSCs. Perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) are emerging luminophores for LSCs. Studying the self-absorption of perovskite NCs is beneficial to understanding fundamental photon transport properties in perovskite-based LSCs. We analyzed and quantified self-absorption properties of perovskite NCs in an LSC with the dimensions of 6 in × 6 in × 1/4 in (152.4 mm × 152.4 mm × 6.35 mm) using three approaches (i.e., limited illumination, laser excitation, and regional measurements). The results showed that a significant number of self-absorption events occurred within a distance of 2 in (50.8 mm), and the photo surface escape due to the repeated self-absorption was the dominant energy loss mechanism.

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