I’m happy to announce that Isabel Wrobel, currently working as a researcher in the team of the Junior Professorship for Ethics for Digital Methods and Technologies towards a PhD, received an award for excellent study performance. Her MA thesis is titled “Self-Tracking – Körperbild – Normierung: Betrachtung, Diskussion und Analyse leiblicher Erfahrung von Self-Tracking als verkörperte Technologie anhand einer soziologisch orientierten leib- und postphänomenologischen Forschungsperspektive”.
The thesis examines Merleau‑Ponty’s phenomenology of the body, as well as Don Ihde’s post‑phenomenology, in order to clarify how the technical possibilities of self‑tracking also alter our embodied experience, that is, our body‑shaped way of engaging with the world: To what extent does self‑tracking, as a technologised practice, modify our understanding of corporeality?
The winners of the awards for excellent study performance of the Ruhr University Bochum are presented in the following Video on YouTube.