Algorithmic skin: health-tracking technologies, personal analytics and the biopedagogies of digitized health and physical education
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...Below, we examine how a number of such intermediaries “structure and shape possibilities for action” (Williamson 2015, p. 141)....
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...“Disembodied exhaust gives rise to a data-proxy, an abstracted figure created from the amalgamation of data traces” (Smith 2016, p. 110, emphasis in original; see also Millington 2016, Rich & Miah 2017, Williamson 2015)....
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...These body surveillance devices project an optimal form of fitness and wellbeing into a kind of pleasurable body pedagogy that conveys normal expectations and moral codes about health (Gard and Lupton, 2017; Lupton, 2015a, 2017; Williamson, 2015)....
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...…commodities for hackers, as it can be used for identity theft, to make fraudulent health insurance claims or to access drugs and medical equipment or for blackmailing claims if these data are particularly sensitive (such as sexual identity or activity, for example) (Wicks & Chiauzzi, 2015)....
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...Equally, studies show that there is a danger that self-tracking will restrict teachers’ capacity to support young people to become healthy citizens by self-tracking governing and controlling the entire educational process (Luton, 2015; Williamson, 2015)....
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...…to and acceptance of this narrow interpretation that health equates to numbers and health is a behaviour that can be quantified (Gard, 2014; Williamson, 2015) is an issue that needs to be addressed in physical education, particularly if self-tracking will become an imposed practice…...
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...…that advocates for the value of surveillance and the use of healthy lifestyle technologies in physical education contexts (Casey et al., 2017; Williamson, 2015), the young people stressed that there would be no educational value of integrating technology and that technology could negatively…...
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...Despite the potential for negative impacts, self-tracking could become an imposed school practice (Luton, 2015; Williamson, 2015)....
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...Recent critical debates point at problematic consequences of the surveillance practices promoted by health devices and apps (Petherick, 2015; Rich & Miah, 2017; Williamson, 2015)....
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...But I also draw on conceptualizations of governance from research that has focused on the ways in which human beings and bodies have been understood, managed and treated—either for purposes of care and cure or for individual and social reform and improvement—through ‘biopolitical’ techniques associated with medical, psychological and neurological sciences (Lemke, 2011; Rose, 1999; Rose & Abi-Rached, 2013)....
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...…beings and bodies have been understood, managed and treated—either for purposes of care and cure or for individual and social reform and improvement—through ‘biopolitical’ techniques associated with medical, psychological and neurological sciences (Lemke, 2011; Rose, 1999; Rose & Abi-Rached, 2013)....
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...…has sought to erase the boundaries between humans and non-humans and to reveal the technological metaphors that we use to understand ourselves(e.g. Hayles, 1999), many of the metaphors used to describe the technologies and techniques of the quantified self routinely juxtapose the body with…...
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...…to classify students by their standardized achievement and aptitude tests valorizes some kinds of knowledge skills and renders other kinds invisible’ (Bowker & Star, 1999, p. 6), the health-tracking technologies being promoted in physical education can be understood as sorting systems for…...
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...Perhaps most significantly, however, algorithms privilege automaticity, quantification, proceduralization and automation in human endeavours, and reflect an his‐ torical tension between notions of autonomous human sociality and the imposition of systemized procedures (Gillespie, 2014b)....
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...…of a public’ through its traceable activities and the subsequent presentation of a public back to itself that shapes its very sense of itself, thus helping to constitute ‘publics that would not otherwise exist except that the algorithm called them into existence’ (Gillespie, 2014a, p. 189)....
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...Moreover, Gillespie (2014a) argues, as algorithms are increasingly being designed to anticipate users and make predictions about their future behaviours, users are now reshaping their practices to suit the algorithms they depend on....
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...Such data may be incomplete, partial, or even incompatible with the data that the algorithm will operate on ‘in the wild’ (Gillespie, 2014b)....
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