Quantifiable me
| Autor: | Candice A. Welhausen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Fitness Trackers
business.industry BitTorrent tracker Trope (literature) media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Internet privacy 050801 communication & media studies 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology General Medicine Mental health 0508 media and communications 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Rhetorical question Narrative Ideology Psychology business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Communication Design Quarterly. 5:61-71 |
| ISSN: | 2166-1642 |
| Popis: | As fitness trackers have proliferated, many now collect information about both physical and mental health indicators. Arguably, such capabilities promote the notion that achieving and maintaining health is holistic, pushing back against the mind/body divide that has long characterized how we tend to perceive health and disease in Western cultures (see Segal, 2005). In this article, the author argues that the visual (photographs and data visualizations) and language-based communication strategies used on Bellabeat Leaf's website, a smart jewelry device for women, employ a narrative of holisticism. Further, this narrative functions as a rhetorical trope that reinforces power relationships that align with a dominant underlying ideology of Western medicine---the notion that disease and illness can be controlled. The author proposes that future designs of the Leaf's smartphone application might allow users to visualize quantitative and select user-contributed qualitative, sensorial-based feedback to potentially provide a more balanced perspective of health. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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