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生产性自我/脆弱身体:自我追踪、过劳文化与冲突的数据实践

Productive self/vulnerable body: self-tracking, overworking culture, and conflicted data practices

Elise Li Zheng

AI总结:

本文研究中国过劳文化下的自我追踪现象,通过深度访谈结合科学技术研究理论,发现职场生产价值导向塑造了密集自我护理想象并引发能力内卷,用户则通过不同设计元素与社会语境构建出两种冲突的数据实践。

摘要:

自我追踪,即个人数据的收集、分析和解释,标志着一种个体化的健康管理方式,因为人们被要求通过内化规范来建立一个负责任的自我。然而,技术承诺往往与各种社会因素相冲突,例如繁重的日程安排、缺乏动力、压力和焦虑,这些因素未能带来健康结果。为了重新审视这一现象,本文将自我追踪置于中国的过劳文化中,并对过劳人群进行半结构化和深度访谈,以揭示用户在与自我追踪数据互动和解释时的模式。它建立在当前自我追踪文献的基础上,并结合了科学技术研究(Science and Technology Studies)的理论,特别是社会物质组合(sociomaterial assemblages, Lupton 2016)和技术中介(technological mediation, Verbeek 2005),以情境化的方式研究自我追踪,将自我追踪的微观(数据读取、可视化和设计中的情感元素)与宏观(工作与工作场所、社会经济和政治背景)语境联系起来。基于对自我追踪技术用户内化、反思或抵制社会语境的考察,本文认为,以生产力和价值为导向的假设以及职场文化塑造了对密集(有时甚至是不可能的)自我护理和健康的想象,这是一种嵌入技术设计和用户情感体验中的能力内卷。用户通过启用不同的设计元素和社会语境,构建了两种截然不同的自我追踪数据实践。

英文摘要:

Self-tracking, the collection, analysis, and interpretation of personal data, signifies an individualized way of health governance as people are demanded to build a responsible self by internalizing norms. However, the technological promises often bear conflicts with various social factors such as a strenuous schedule, a lack of motivation, stress, and anxieties, which fail to deliver health outcomes. To re-problematize the phenomenon, this paper situates self-tracking in an overworking culture in China and draws on semi structured and in depth interviews with overworking individuals to reveal the patterns in users interactions and interpretations with self-tracking data. It builds on the current literature of self-tracking and engages with theories from Science and Technology Studies, especially sociomaterial assemblages (Lupton 2016) and technological mediation (Verbeek 2005), to study self-tracking in a contextualized way which connects the micro (data reading, visualization, and affective elements in design) with the macro (work and workplaces, socioeconomic and political background) contexts of self-tracking. Drawing on investigation of the social context that users of self-tracking technologies internalize, reflect, or resist, the paper argues that the productivity and value oriented assumptions and workplace culture shape the imaginary of intensive (and sometimes impossible) self-care and health, an involution of competence embedded in the technological design and users affective experiences. Users respond by enacting different design elements and social contexts to frame two distinctive data practices of self-tracking.

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