{"id":681,"date":"2022-08-25T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T08:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weydner-volkmann.de\/?p=681"},"modified":"2022-08-25T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T08:38:10","slug":"article-on-self-tracking-and-habitualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weydner-volkmann.de\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Article on self-tracking and habitualization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new article \u2013 co-authored with Selin Gerlek<\/a> \u2013 was published open-access as part of the edited volume Von Menschen und Maschinen: Mensch-Maschine-Interaktionen in digitalen Kulturen. <\/em>The article reflects on how self-tracking practices can be used as a way to transform habits. The empirical starting point for this was based on interviews, in which self-trackers professed to have developed capabilities that were interpreted as changed attentive practices and tacit knowledge: they reported that, after a certain period of using the ST devices, they were surprised to experience something akin to a \u201cnew sense\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using conceptions from phenomenology and postphenomenology, the surprising emergence of this \u201cnew sense\u201d could be explicated as resulting from a digital embodied practice. They were shown to have the potential to transform the user\u2019s self-relationship by forming a habit of attention to certain feelings and experiences of our body. These attentive practices were habitualized so that, in the end, the original self-tracking devices were no longer needed. By revisiting the Deweyan roots of postphenomenology, we were able to offer an interpretation of this as overcoming (unreflected or bad) routine by establishing deliberately chosen alternatives, intelligent habits, over time. For this, a deliberate and controlled attention to routine is a necessary prerequisite. Through self-tracking practices, a habitualization of attention to existing habits can take place and this, in turn, may form the basis for deliberate change of these habits as part of a transformation towards reflective or intelligent habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gerlek, Selin, and Sebastian Weydner-Volkmann. 2022. \u201cSelf-Tracking and Habitualization. (Post)-Phenomenological and Pragmatist Perspectives on Reflecting Habits with the Help of Digital Technologies.\u201d In: Selin Gerlek, Sarah Kissler, Thorben M\u00e4mecke, and Dennis\u00a0M\u00f6bus (eds.): Von Menschen und Maschinen: Mensch-Maschine-Interaktionen in digitalen Kulturen, 136\u2013149. DOI: 10.57813\/20220623-152405-0 (open access)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new article \u2013 co-authored with Selin Gerlek \u2013 was published open-access as part of the edited volume Von Menschen und Maschinen: Mensch-Maschine-Interaktionen in digitalen Kulturen. The article reflects on how self-tracking practices can be used as a way to transform habits. The empirical starting point for this was based on interviews, in which self-trackers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,35],"tags":[14,37,43,41],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appliedethics","category-publications","category-technology-ethics","tag-applied-ethics","tag-digital-technologies","tag-john-dewey","tag-self-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weydner-volkmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weydner-volkmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weydner-volkmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weydner-volkmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weydner-volkmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/weydner-volkmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/weydner-volkmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weydner-volkmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weydner-volkmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weydner-volkmann.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}