Each reflection paper must engage with Lupton’s (2013) “Understanding the Human Machine” article, noting especially the importance of “reflexivity and the ‘qualified self’” (p. 29).
Part 1 Reflection Questions
Using a full 2 pages, please use the following questions to help guide your observations and analysis of your own self-tracking project.
- What body-related activity did you choose to track?
- What made you decide to track this bodily practice? (e.g., have you ever tracked this before? Why is this bodily process significant to you as a ? (e.g., student, athlete, consumer, health and fitness enthusiast, ).
- What app did you select to track with? Why?
- What are some of your initial thoughts or observations as you set out on this assignment? (e.g., what, if anything, do you hope to achieve? Do you have any apprehensions?).
Part 2 Reflection Questions
Using a full 2 pages, please use the following questions to help guide your observations and analysis of your own self-tracking project.
- How does it feel to collect and use data?
- Do you see the practice of tracking changing the way you think about yourself and your body? Point to specific examples that help to show the reader your thinking.
Part 3 Reflection Questions
Using a full 2 pages, please use the following questions to help guide your observations and analysis of your own self-tracking project.
- Debra Lupton notes that people have been monitoring and tracking their bodies for centuries. What makes contemporary practices of self-tracking connected to the Quantified Self movement different from earlier eras?
- What is the likelihood that you will continue self-tracking? Why or why not?
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