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<p>This article elaborates on the prospects for research interventions that repurpose the means of datafication to create possibilities for people to reflect on what it means in their daily lives. The research data consist of qualitative research interviews (n=13) in which media diaries and tracking data from the participants’ smartphones and computers served as prompts for reflection. The experiences from the self-monitoring and the encounters with tracked data by self-identified avid ICT users are analysed to gain a better understanding of the kinds of possibilities for reflexivity that are enabled when people have access to data that are rarely available to them.</p>
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This article elaborates on the prospects for research interventions that repurpose the means of datafication to create possibilities for people to reflect on what it means in their daily lives. The research data consist of qualitative research interviews (n=13) in which media diaries and tracking data from the participants’ smartphones and computers served as prompts for reflection. The experiences from the self-monitoring and the encounters with tracked data by self-identified avid ICT users are analysed to gain a better understanding of the kinds of possibilities for reflexivity that are enabled when people have access to data that are rarely available to them.

Encounters with Self-Monitoring Data on ICT Use

Nordicom Review

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This article elaborates on the prospects for research interventions that repurpose the means of datafication to create possibilities for people to reflect on...

Encounters with Self-Monitoring Data on ICT Use

Published Online: Jun 28, 2019

Page range: 125 - 140

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0018

Keywords
datafication, self-monitoring, self-tracking, ICT use, research intervention

© 2019 Minna Saariketo, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Encounters with Self-Monitoring Data on ICT Use

Published Online: Jun 28, 2019

Page range: 125 - 140

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0018

Keywordsdatafication, self-monitoring, self-tracking, ICT use, research intervention

© 2019 Minna Saariketo, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
datafication, self-monitoring, self-tracking, ICT use, research intervention